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@MK82 some guns are fitter with a balancing system. Blaser F16, F3. Beretta DT10/11. Browning Ultra XS, 725 Pro for example. These can be balanced by adding/removing weights from the barrel/stock. That said, any gun can be balanced. If stock heavy, you can add weight to the stock. You can use a...

I concur with previous commentators.  I have shot Blaser F3 in 38, (err... 28” ffs 🙄)  30 and 32 and for me I felt no discernible difference. In all cases the gun was well balanced.  On the orherhand, I shot a Browning 725 with 30” barrels which was set up nose heavy and it felt like I was...

I just fitted two Teague half flush chokes.  standard chokes supplied with gun were extended. I have not been able to discern any difference... But then I barely notice the difference between 21g and 28g

Oh “finesse” exactly that! Seems to make a huge difference to ones shooting performance. I’m a country mile behind you of course in both skill and experience, but I can identify to some degree with your sentiments. I spent three hours with Ed Solomons and it was transformative. I knew I...

Can only give this one like but deserve so much more 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏

@Charliedog The “slice n dice” method. I like it! You should trade mark that and publish it as the new gospel of clay shooting. 

@DavidJ Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, Hesus, Zeus... call it what you will. Broken clays with - Swingers maintained pull off™

So... pull away in it’s normal form is two speeds, swing through is one speed. Two speeds from behind is what? pull through swing away?   I think maybe shooting is like religion. Everyone has their own unshakable faith and one mans zealot is another mans heretic. Physics perhaps is more like...

After being quoted anything from £250 to £600 for an adjustable comb and shortening, and a quote from Manuel Ricardo for €550 (grade 1) for a custom stock (thus the original one remains intact).    MR now offers an over tinterweb /postal service, he calls “One Click Gun Stock”... It’s...

If the barrels are on the clay and matching it’s speed, then accelerate to pull away is two speeds, what if your are behind the clay, the gap is constant and this the speed of the clay and then you accelerate to in front of the clay, this at a second speed. Is that pull away from behind or swing...

@Charliedog Spray ‘n’ pray! 🤪 Well, that’s certainly what I had been doing until Ed put me to work. Ed is very methodical in his approach to coaching and actively dissuades from trying to take on too much at once. He’s been getting me to use ‘pull away’. I’m not sure if Ed would encourage me...

A three hour session with Ed Solomons righted a lot of wrongs on my recent form. This was also my second time out with the modified stock and I’m definitely getting more comfortable with it. On some going away and incomer presentations using Gamebore Blue Diamond 28g 7.1/2 Plaswad through 1/2...

My dad used to say the “proof is in the pudding not the recipe”

@timps FWIW I had a three hour session with Ed Solomons today at Sporting Targets and he echoed pretty much what you’re saying.  Ed thought in his opinion the stock was still too long and not enough cast. We took the butt pad off and shot some incommers and going away. At first I thought I’d...

First question answer, No Second question answer. Yes

@Wonko the Sane  If I could do as Mike Yardley does I’d have nothing to whine about and you’d have nothing to laugh about. Seriously though, I have read Mike Yardley’s articles and book on gun fitting and Rollin Oswald et.al If all I needed to do was read books to get a good gun fit and shoot...

Despite my di... mucking about with stock mods of late, I’m not convinced gun fit is the be all and end all of shooting performance. The best can shoot anything. There’s plenty of anecdotes and folklore to support that theory as I’m sure there are plenty of folks with a perfectly fitted stock...

If I needed shooting to make economic sense, I’d get a pea shooter or a spud gun. 😄 Im well below average, a relative novice still in my defence 😊    When it became obvious I needed to modify my stock, I took a step by step approach. Needing a shorter LoP I removed the butt pad. Needing a...

Having been tinkering quite a bit with cast as previously, to centre my eye over the bead I’d have to ram my face against the stock and turn my nose in firmly, or I’d have to cant my head.     I also had to raise my face off the comb or I’d be way too flat. Didn’t make for the most consistent...

Manuel Ricardo custom stock Grade 1/Standard  €550 Grade 2/D €700 Grade 3/C €850 Grade 4/B €1,000 Grade 5/A €1,200 Grade X/Exhibition €1,400+ Fore-end €450 Glove grip €100 Adjustable comb €200 Thats very competitive when you compare to factory prices for replacement stocks and more so...