Gun up or down

[GeordieTrapper]

I shoot skeet with gun up but have been told to try gun slightly out of shoulder, what do members think about skeet and compact sporting gun positions?

 

[Martinj]

as a sporting shooter I'll shoot gun up and in the hold position most of the time because you lose time getting the gun from the down position to the shoulder.
Probable the same for Compac and Skeet, a better shooter than me once said that if you can shoot gun up, you should do it.

 

[donna]

Gun up 99% of time for me unless it’s fitasc. I do like gun out of shoulder though if it’s a slow incomer or crow, it stops me rushing it!

 

[JoostB]

Here in Holland always gun down in both Olympic and sporting skeet. If it makes you loose time it can’t be much. If your mount is right, it is done in the swing. A lot of time would be lost if the gun is first mounted before the swing is begun.

Shooting gun down also gives you a much better view.

 

[Westward]

There's gun down, as in the Fitasc rules and there's fully mounted with gun in the shoulder and cheek on the stock, and then there's the cheat mount where the gun is held close to fully mounted but not actually in the shoulder and with cheek slightly off the stock.

After 14 years of reffing I would say that almost all the top sporting shots use the cheat mount for the 1st clay of a report pair and sometimes even for the 2nd as well if there's a time or distance gap between the shots.