Hello from Northumberland

[Alan Maughan]

Looks like a friendly forum you have here guys, glad to be on board.

Im a very keen clay shooting novice who has been lured into the world of shotguns (after much intitial resistence) by his mates. I work in the sporting field and lots of people I know shoot so decided I had enough spare time now to dedicate to learning about it myself. Ive tried a good few guns and have settled for a Zoli Kronos 32" trap gun which was re-choked 5/8 & 3/4 by its previos owner, seems like a bit of an inbetween set-up for a novice on mainly ESP but I will see how it goes in the next month or two before deciding what to do in the choke area. I fitted a Gracoil myself last week and I plan to use 21g as often as possible as I havent handled the recoil well in the past, I accept this could be badly fitting guns but what the hell, belt and braces approach cant harm!

I have an engineering background and Im a tinkerer so Im currently looking at doing an adjustable comb conversion. Maybe rightly or wrongly at this early stage in my shooting career I feel quite strongly about correct gun fit and hopefully my gun mount will continue to improve so I can look at getting everything set up properly soon. My shooting is improving every week and I shot my best last Sunday so raring to go again this weekend.

Please forgive the fact that I will have more questions than answers at the moment.

Cheers

Alan

 

[ExSCA]

Welcome aboard Alan - enjoy ShootClay - any questions, please let me know.

Questions all welcome as well - we have a good selection of knowledgeable people here.

 

[Robo]

Welcome

 

[RobertBeard]

Welcome Alan from another new boy to the sport

 

[teepee1234]

Welcome along Alan, enjoy! Ask away, there are plenty of very knowledgeable people here.

 

[Mark Jones]

Welcome and good luck with the gun. If you look on here you will see we had a 21gram comp at wylye and the hull cartridge peforms very well,Mark

Looks like a friendly forum you have here guys, glad to be on board.

Im a very keen clay shooting novice who has been lured into the world of shotguns (after much intitial resistence) by his mates. I work in the sporting field and lots of people I know shoot so decided I had enough spare time now to dedicate to learning about it myself. Ive tried a good few guns and have settled for a Zoli Kronos 32" trap gun which was re-choked 5/8 & 3/4 by its previos owner, seems like a bit of an inbetween set-up for a novice on mainly ESP but I will see how it goes in the next month or two before deciding what to do in the choke area. I fitted a Gracoil myself last week and I plan to use 21g as often as possible as I havent handled the recoil well in the past, I accept this could be badly fitting guns but what the hell, belt and braces approach cant harm!

I have an engineering background and Im a tinkerer so Im currently looking at doing an adjustable comb conversion. Maybe rightly or wrongly at this early stage in my shooting carrer I feel quite strongly about correct gun fit and hopefully my gun mount will continue to improve so I can look at getting everything set up properly soon. My shooting is improving every week and I shot my best last Sunday so raring to go again this weekend.

Please forgive the fact that I will have more questions than answers at the moment.

Cheers

Alan

 

[Jeremy Baker]

Hello Welcome to the site.

 

[dyosk]

HI Alan, do you shoot at steve smiths at all ?

David

 

[Alan Maughan]

Thanks for the welcome guys

HI Alan, do you shoot at steve smiths at all ?

David

Hi David, yes I do as its near where I live. I also go to Harlow Hill and Greenside on alternate Sundays with occassional trips to Braidwood. Im hoping to get down to Spennymoor over the winter on a Wednesday evening.

 

[luditte]

Hi Alan Hope to see you at HarlowHill on Sunday with your new Gun

 

[sibaldib]

Welcome to the forum Alan, from another clay new boy.

 

[dyosk]

hopefully we'll meet up there sometime...i'll be back when the flooded OT trench has been drained..!

 

[Maxum]

Hi

 

[Clanchief]

Parts for adjustable combs are available from Brownells site USA pretty cheap and a few styles of quality, you may depending on gun need to make the stock bolt retained in the stock permanently, also a small fillet of wood fitted as you may cut through to the stock bolt hole. Other than that videos for fitting are on U tube.

 

[Alan Maughan]

Parts for adjustable combs are available from Brownells site USA pretty cheap and a few styles of quality, you may depending on gun need to make the stock bolt retained in the stock permanently, also a small fillet of wood fitted as you may cut through to the stock bolt hole. Other than that videos for fitting are on U tube.

Thanks CF, I have seen them but will probably make my own as I have the skills and access to the right machinery.

If anyone is thinking of buying from Brownells I would suggest they look here first as these guys manufacture them along with their own ribs and the recoil reducers sold as Gracoil for twice the price!