Hold points for low gun skeet

Rick B

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I have decided to shoot skeet low gun since this is the way I hunt. I was wondering if my hold points are the same as if I was shooting with the gun premounted. I know they won't be in the exact spot but shouldn't they be pretty close? I find with low gun I can see the bird much earlier and clearer
 
Rick B said:
I have decided to shoot skeet low gun since this is the way I hunt. I was wondering if my hold points are the same as if I was shooting with the gun premounted. I know they won't be in the exact spot but shouldn't they be pretty close? I find with low gun I can see the bird much earlier and clearer
I often shoot skeet low gun for both hunting and sporting clays practice and generally my hold points are a bit further out on the middle stations when I am practicing is a sustained lead/intercept method of shooting. If I'm working on swing through the hold points remain about the same.

My hold points are a lot further out on station #8. Low 8, low gun is a real challenge.
 
Have heard the same reasoning many times before, i.e., "low gun, because that's the same way I hunt" but examine closely your conventional hunting gun "carry" ... is it remotely anything like your skeet or sporting "low gun" position, or is it just the gun isn't "mounted" ???

I've watched literraly dozens, if not hundreds of hunters ( did some outfitting & guiding, both here, and abroad ), carrying their guns afield ... not one has really employed a carry position resembling a "low gun position" typicaly usedseen on the target fields - other than, as stated, the gun wasn't mounted.

Low gun is perhaps a good way to "practice" your gun mounting while shooting targets ... BUT IT AIN'T THE SAME .. and you're really just kidding yourself if you think it is ! Other than International Skeet & F.I.T.A.S.C. (Internatuional Sporting)
where it's mandated, none of the conventional target games require low gun, and none of the top level shooters employ a low gun ready position.

But by all means, have fun shooting "Low Gun". The gun mounting practice can't hurt.
 
I agree that the low gun I use when shooting skeet doesn't resemble what I use when hunting. No branches and things that have to be moved out of the way etc. But like you said it definetly helps with mounting the gun and firing. I figure if I can practice mounting and firing a good number of times on the skeet field then mounting the gun in the field will be more consistent. I do some practice at home but without firing. And if I was shooting in competition I would use every advantage the rules allowed and premount the gun.
 
beretta boy said:
Other than International Skeet & F.I.T.A.S.C. (Internatuional Sporting) where it's mandated, none of the conventional target games require low gun, and none of the top level shooters employ a low gun ready position.
In sporting clays there are often stations where low gun is more effective. Andy Duffy is a top level shooter and he recommends and practices low gun for most shots.

Going away, rising teal or quartering targets with lots of time to see the bird are most often best shot premounted.

Low gun is better hunting practice because while hunters most often don't go through the field in a low gun position it's closer to hunting positions than a premounted gun. Learning how to mount the gun and practicing the mounts is important as well whether for clays or in the field.
 
Couldn't agree more !

For most Sorting & Five Stand, I use a "low" gun variation, that is, stock more or less started from approkimately under the arm pit ( but gun pushed forward so it wont get caught-up in the mount ) with barrels on or slightly under the anticipated target flight path - a form I've seen Duffy, Robertson, Kruger, Phillips, Smith and many others use to advantage. No magic to it, just a smooth "Move, Mount, Shoot" !

My point was just this ... most who want to shoot "Low Gun" at Skeet do so from a somewhat exaggerated low gun position, which does not resemble how they carry the gun afield. Better find a modified format of low gun mount that will serve to promote a good gun mount from a " low " position that will not hamper a smooth mount and create a lot of wasted motion in getting the gun to the face.
 
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