my shooting sucks

[Naches Sportsman]

20 shots and 4 ducks this morning . My shooting is terrible. fun morning anyway with lots of mallards flying. I Just hope they stay and more come down to make the hunting good for weeks to come.

[jaymark6655]

No it doesn't.  Damn pellets weren't flying straight or shot was bouncing of bird (they must have thicker feathers than normal). 

[Fowlweather25]

Haha call your ammo manufacturer and ask them why they loaded your damn box with blanks!?

[Fishnclifff]

1 bird for 5 shots is the nat'l avg, according to a waterfowl hunter study I read awhile back.

I shot 17 for 3 yesterday. Some of my shots were a little high or far, but I was trying a different load, and curiosity got the best of me. 

I am trying to be more patient and wait for the best shots.

[norsepeak]

I don't refer to it as bad shooting, but rather giving them a chance...I like to give my game animals a "warning shot" usually anyway, makes it more sporting

[runamuk]

I don't refer to it as bad shooting, but rather giving them a chance...I like to give my game animals a "warning shot" usually anyway, makes it more sporting

that cracks me up 

[Hunting7mm]

practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[TheHunt]

I don't refer to it as bad shooting, but rather giving them a chance...I like to give my game animals a "warning shot" usually anyway, makes it more sporting

My friend says that harvesting a running deer taste better.   

[sticknstringman]

Ur practicing catch and release...i have been known to do so as well

[BOWHUNTER45]

just remember to swing threw the duck 

[Hunting7mm]

 

[carpsniperg2]

If you have not put your current hunting loads on paper with your gun and choke tube you might want to do that. It could be the pattern and not really you. If it is, you will save a ton of money on shells by investing in a better choke

[Hunting7mm]

   I totally agree!!!!!

[thomasmx]

Duck hunting is some of the only hunting that you can shoot all day, not even get a 1/4 of what you shot at and still laugh your ass off about it!!! Cant beat a day out away from everything, shoot your gun and not love it.

[Kola16]

What choke tube were you using and how far away were the ducks 

[Ellensburg]

Buy black cloud shells = kill more birds


Sometimes I just don't care and I'll start slinging lead. You miss 100% of the birds you don't shoot at.

[Skagit_Hunter]

A duck in true range any stock choke tube will do the trick. We all have those days. But a box that sukz. If I don't get my 7 with ten shells i'm done for the day. And have been there. No use in crippling birds on a bad day. I blame it on the shells or the gun, After all it couldn't be my shooting

[400out]

Buy black cloud shells = kill more birds


Sometimes I just don't care and I'll start slinging lead. You miss 100% of the birds you don't shoot at.

I will go home empty before i'll buy those over priced things 

[Skagit_Hunter]

Buy black cloud shells = kill more birds


Sometimes I just don't care and I'll start slinging lead. You miss 100% of the birds you don't shoot at.

NEWS FLASH!!!!!
SLINGING LEAD IS A ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. AND ADMITTING IT IS EVEN WORSE
SEE YOU AFTER THE BAN.....

[shorthair-on-point]

Pattern your gun. You will be surprised how different each load patterns.

[Fishnclifff]

Pattern your gun. You will be surprised how different each load patterns.

I have pattered all my chokes.
Surprisingly, the full choke sucks. There is a hole in the pattern you can fit a mallard through.

The improved cylinder needs some improving. The patter is H U G E .

I use the modified all the time.

All chokes were tested at 25 yrds.

[270Shooter]

Blackcloud= poop

I shoot IC out of my M2 and it knocks em dead to 45 yards, i shoot the cheap shells too!

[Ellensburg]

Blackcloud= poop

I shoot IC out of my M2 and it knocks em dead to 45 yards, i shoot the cheap shells too!

Black cloud just isn't your thing then. Some like it some dont.


BTW- Slinging lead is just a phrase. I didn't mean it in a literal sense.... Or did I? Better call the e-police

[270Shooter]

Blackcloud= poop

I shoot IC out of my M2 and it knocks em dead to 45 yards, i shoot the cheap shells too!

Black cloud just isn't your thing then. Some like it some dont.


BTW- Slinging lead is just a phrase. I didn't mean it in a literal sense.... Or did I? Better call the e-police

Yeah I had some of the Black cloud snow goose 3'' 2's and I made some super long shots with them, I killed a gadwall stone dead at 65-70 yards (way to far to be shooting at i know), but then I've crippled off mallards at 40 yards with them multiple times. I dont use them anymore.

[bigcans]

Blackcloud= poop

I shoot IC out of my M2 and it knocks em dead to 45 yards, i shoot the cheap shells too!

Black cloud just isn't your thing then. Some like it some dont.


BTW- Slinging lead is just a phrase. I didn't mean it in a literal sense.... Or did I? Better call the e-police

Yeah I had some of the Black cloud snow goose 3'' 2's and I made some super long shots with them, I killed a gadwall stone dead at 65-70 yards (way to far to be shooting at i know), but then I've crippled off mallards at 40 yards with them multiple times. I dont use them anymore.

there's a golden bb in every box i suppose. you must have hit that gadwall's cartoid

[Kola16]

Eat skittles. They work for Lynch   

[brokenvet]

It may not be you or your ammo that is causing you to miss it could be your shotgun not fitting you correctly.  Length of pull may to long or short, drop in comb could be to low or high. 

Here are some things you can read.
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2113

[Dhoey07]

Buy black cloud shells = kill more birds


Sometimes I just don't care and I'll start slinging lead. You miss 100% of the birds you don't shoot at.

NEWS FLASH!!!!!
SLINGING LEAD IS A ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. AND ADMITTING IT IS EVEN WORSE
SEE YOU AFTER THE BAN.....

Oh no, a loon might eat your lead pellets!