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Title: my shooting sucks
Post by: Naches Sportsman on December 11, 2011, 09:40:32 AM
20 shots and 4 ducks this morning :bash: :bash:. 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.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: jaymark6655 on December 11, 2011, 09:43:23 AM
No it doesn't.  Damn pellets weren't flying straight or shot was bouncing of bird (they must have thicker feathers than normal).  :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Fowlweather25 on December 11, 2011, 10:10:06 AM
Haha call your ammo manufacturer and ask them why they loaded your damn box with blanks!? :yike: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Fishnclifff on December 11, 2011, 10:46:04 AM
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.  :chuckle:

I am trying to be more patient and wait for the best shots.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: norsepeak on December 11, 2011, 10:49:53 AM
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 :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: runamuk on December 11, 2011, 11:32:37 AM
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 :chuckle:
that cracks me up  :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Hunting7mm on December 11, 2011, 11:51:03 AM
practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :tup:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: TheHunt on December 11, 2011, 12:40:38 PM
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 :chuckle:

My friend says that harvesting a running deer taste better.   :chuckle: :dunno: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: sticknstringman on December 11, 2011, 01:38:19 PM
Ur practicing catch and release...i have been known to do so as well :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on December 11, 2011, 02:03:47 PM
just remember to swing threw the duck  :dunno: :chuckle: :tup:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Hunting7mm on December 11, 2011, 02:11:57 PM
 :yeah:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 11, 2011, 02:15:34 PM
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 :tup:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Hunting7mm on December 11, 2011, 02:20:38 PM
 :yeah:  I totally agree!!!!!
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: thomasmx on December 12, 2011, 08:07:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Kola16 on December 12, 2011, 08:43:14 PM
What choke tube were you using and how far away were the ducks  :dunno:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Ellensburg on December 12, 2011, 09:05:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on December 13, 2011, 09:00:16 AM
A duck in true range any stock choke tube will do the trick. We all have those days. But a box :sry: 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 :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: 400out on December 13, 2011, 09:02:11 AM
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  :twocents:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on December 13, 2011, 02:15:43 PM
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..... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: shorthair-on-point on December 13, 2011, 02:26:24 PM
Pattern your gun. You will be surprised how different each load patterns.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Fishnclifff on December 13, 2011, 02:37:01 PM
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.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: 270Shooter on December 13, 2011, 02:49:32 PM
Blackcloud= poop

I shoot IC out of my M2 and it knocks em dead to 45 yards, i shoot the cheap shells too!
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Ellensburg on December 13, 2011, 04:53:46 PM
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 :(
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: 270Shooter on December 13, 2011, 05:03:07 PM
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.
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: bigcans on December 13, 2011, 05:57:38 PM
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 :chuckle:
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Kola16 on December 13, 2011, 07:29:00 PM
Eat skittles. They work for Lynch    8)
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: brokenvet on December 13, 2011, 08:02:51 PM
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
Title: Re: my shooting sucks
Post by: Dhoey07 on December 13, 2011, 08:11:21 PM
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..... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Oh no, a loon might eat your lead pellets!
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