Got er runnin

mike shickele

mike shickele

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Well, It had been so long since I'd shot shotgun, and even when I did it was a double, that I almost did the unthinkable and mounted a scope on my shotgun to keep myself from getting hamburger face. Let's go back a few months. I'd owned a couple of Mossberg 500's, and they where great guns, but I used them for bear defense back when I was a timber cruiser. The only real shotgun shooting that I'd done was with double barrel shotguns that pointed quite differently to me than the pump that I now have. Every time that I put this gun up I'd want to point it like a rifle, and being left eye dominant, my left eye would crawl over as I was shooting , and turn my cheek into hamburger. Well, now I have myself trained to look at the target only, and fire when I see it clearly, totally discounting the gun, but swinging it with my eyes. Man is change ever painful sometimes.
Mike
 
Well done, Mike. Retraining a "rifleman" into a wingshooter is a very difficult thing to do with expert help, let alone on your own.

Another aid is to make it difficult for your left eye to get an accurate focus on the shotgun bead. If you wear glasses (and you should be wearing safety glasses at least), smudge some spit or nose oil across the top part of your left lens. Now your left eye no longer has the dominant, clear view. You can still make out the target with both eyes open, but the "signal" will mostly come from the right now.
 
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