Demystifying the Gunfitting Process

[Big Bad]

Another informative article from Project Upland Magazine and once again it's too long for a single post but this time I'm not going to try to break the text into multiple ones- not only do I lack the ambition right now but also there are photos and illustrations that must be seen.

https://projectupland.com/shotguns-...mensions/?mc_cid=bbb7c54096&mc_eid=d1c94caa05

 

[Stephen Nash]

Thanks for posting, this will be useful to many.

 

[Ol' Flinter]

Excellent information and approach to what is a mysterious process for many!

 

[FatCatsDad]

You can have the most expensive best fit gun in the world and it won't help if you don't have some natural skills.

Same as buying a $3000 Gibson guitar won't make you a better player than if you bought a $200 Ovation

 

[Big Bad]

You can have the most expensive best fit gun in the world and it won't help if you don't have some natural skills.

Same as buying a $3000 Gibson guitar won't make you a better player than if you bought a $200 Ovation

It's not the be all and end all, but I do think fit applies to wing shooting: the more quickly you can get your gun pointing correctly the more quickly those other skills can take over. And rifles, if you want to consider a Daisy Red Ryder a rifle, then last summer I picked up the kid's size version of one at a family BB shoot and couldn't hit anything with it, then someone handed me an adult length one that was much closer to my length of pull and all of a sudden I was a bearded Annie Oakley.

 

[stubblejumper]

Having a properly fitted shotgun is not going to make someone with no skills into a good wingshooter, but it will certainly help to improve their scores, compared to shooting a shotgun that fits them poorly. The sad fact is that the majority of people that I met, don't understand shotgun fit at all, if the lop seems reasonable, they think that a shotgun fits them.