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Not a stupid question at all. As you're applying lead your eyes will still be focused on the target. You'll still see the gap between clay and rib, but the rib won't be in focus. The lead you're applying is at target distance. It's if we start swapping focus to the rib/bead and start measuring...

Peejay, bang on, all of these can cause a miss. One thing your post highlighted to me is your use of the word "aimed". We are pointing, not aiming. If you are trying to aim and measure lead by focusing on the rib and measuring lead at the gun end, there's a pretty good chance you'll stop the...

Not the video I was thinking of, but the the info is pretty much the same

I'll have a trawl and post a link, unless Ben beats me to it.

Its fairly simple. The faster it's going the more lead it requires. The line tells you in which direction.

Swing through is hardly new. Game shooters have been doing it since day 1. You can't always shoot maintained or pull away if you don't know when and where the target is coming from. We all teach pull away first on a SC layout, because teaches target line and speed. From that you can determine...

Stay with the entry level at the moment. Worry about higher end cartridges when you start hitting the bigger targets. There's plenty of good shooters that practice and even compete with sub £300/thousand cartridges. Hull Comp X, Fiocchi Litespeed & Fblu and Gamebore Velocity ( to name a few) all...

It does look like a stunning gun, but is it that much better than the DT11?

Nearly all of us see 2 barrels when we are focused on the clay, and nearly all of us learn to shoot 2 eyes open, unless it there is an eye dominance issue. Have a read of this article by Ed Lyons: https://www.ed-lyons.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CTN0321_FC_Visual-Performance.pdf "When...

Spot on. Having a pre mounted gun on some targets is a distinct advantage. Why anybody would teach gun down from the start is beyond me. It's virtually impossible to learn everything at once. A newbie will not have a consistent mount, or possibly a well enough fitting gun to shoot gun down from...

From what I understand, ITAR covers "combat shotguns" or any shotgun with a barrel less than 18" and their parts. A set of firing pins and springs for a Prosport should be fine , although getting a US supplier to ship internationally is another matter. It'll no doubt come down to proving that...

Unfortunately there's a lot of shoots where even though they take into account wind and sun position, they don't take into account diffences in the shooters height. Occasionally I get hampered by the opposite. Shooting from within a treeline on a high target it can get obscured by the tree...

Cheddite Championships at Barrow (Hunston Woods) for me yesterday. This has got to be my favourite shoot of the year. It's well laid out, and a good variety of targets from monstrous crossers, to little floppy clays at the end of your gun. I did hear a few people moaning about the close in...

I've had a couple of skeet vests, and TBH the £25 one I got from Decathlon is the same quality as the Browning one I paid £100 for . Not ventured into the Castellani price bracket, can't see the point.

To get 3 failures to fire in one round/stand which is all purely down to cartridge manufacturing I would say is exceptionally unlucky. I think in a registered shoot most refs might use some discretion. In a championship shoot, maybe not. I've had a 2 failures on 1 stand before, which turned out...

I got a message today from one of the other guys who was at MR the same time as me. His stock and forend was sent from Portugal yesterday via UPS, and was delivered to him this morning. No accompanying import duty or VAT bill. So now the question you've got to ask yourself is how are you going...

I received my licence 4 years ago, just before they introduced the medical checks. I appreciate things have been tightened up since then, as my reference wasn't even contacted. From the BBC news today it's soon to be more than a med check and a reference, my local authority are now giving a...

Been out to my local club shoot this morning. The wind was that strong that it was trying to blow my barrels around. Good practice session though.

It is not unknown for parcels entering the UK to occasionally get delivered without being picked up for import duty and VAT, even though the parcel has a declared value on it. It seems to happen to some couriers more than others .

You are correct, it was £37 per flight, my total extras came to approx £120. Corrected in initial post