Influence?

[Jonny English]

The search will always draw us, the holy grail as it may be referred too.

My grand father always use to say that the company of a lady will draw men further than gun powder could blow them.

Well guns and shooting are much the same. It draws you in, so that all you eat and breath is shooting. Every waking moment your thinking of how to gain consistency, how to kill that bogey target, is my cartridge doing enough for me. Is my choke throwing the correct pattern. And at the end of all this, is my gun holding me back? And you believe it is on the bad days.

So the quest is always on to find the holy grail, and only the most content or successfull people will find it. The rest of us will keep searching and failing!

 

[Les53]

Matt,

 If you were influenced by Chard, do you also like Wurther's Originals?

In the words of the shooting God from Hastings    " I will shoot anything if the money is right ." 

As an addendum to being influenced into buying a gun because a 'star' shoots one, how many of you will own up to swapping and changing guns in the search for perfection, you know that you are talented it is just the gun holding you back!     ????

OK Pete,I've got both hands up mate!!!! The holy grail trail, I've been on it many times! :suicide:  Oh and that god from Hastings did pretty well with a cheap old 682 for a good few years too!

 

[clayclouter]

The search will always draw us, the holy grail as it may be referred too.

My grand father always use to say that the company of a lady will draw men further than gun powder could blow them.

Well guns and shooting are much the same. It draws you in, so that all you eat and breath is shooting. Every waking moment your thinking of how to gain consistency, how to kill that bogey target, is my cartridge doing enough for me. Is my choke throwing the correct pattern. And at the end of all this, is my gun holding me back? And you believe it is on the bad days.

Johnny you must get out more !!!

So the quest is always on to find the holy grail, and only the most content or successfull people will find it. The rest of us will keep searching and failing!

 

 

[Emmsy]

shot brownings / mirooks and remingtons because my dad owned them, wanted a perazzi or k80 as a gun for life, bought the cheaper option, the perazzi literally fell apart, now have a k80 and cant see myself changing anytime soon.

 

[IanS]

Looks as if I should take up muzzle loaders, had a go with one locally and improved no end!  Maybe the loading time had something to do with it.

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I got fixated on a Bettinsoli last year (being a newbie), but this forum soon put an end to that!!!  I think Teepee had something to say about it.  Ended up with the Daytona and quite happy with it, nothing I had tried before, "fitted me".

 

[Les53]

shot brownings / mirooks and remingtons because my dad owned them, wanted a perazzi or k80 as a gun for life, bought the cheaper option, the perazzi literally fell apart, now have a k80 and cant see myself changing anytime soon.

A Perazzi fell apart? How on earth did that happen? I had a few problems with triggers/springs on Perazzi's but never heard of one falling apart though. What went wrong?

 

[ips]

I am with westward on this never followed the crowd in fact historically gone the other way deliberately cos i too am an awkward git. After a long and costly search for the grail i came to realise it doesnt exist and just bought the gun i aspired too and now just try to hit as many clays as possible with it. The only person who i ever listened to was my mentor and very good friend Mr Albert Worthington who taught me too shoot clay when i was 22 and he was late 60s. Never tried to make me shoot any way other than my natural and some would say unconformist style which has evolved over 27 yrs. Sorry i digress

 

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Nope....cannot say I have ever been influenced by anyone else. I have always had the ability to make my own mind up after trying something :smile:

Baaaaaaa is something foreign to me :smile:

Plus I do not care who has shot what before.

P.s. Awkward yes......git no

 

[ips]

I wonder how many would shoot a really really cheap horrible gun if they shot well with it or would vanity be strong enough to make them persevere with a more aspirational gun. I admit to the latter cos i am vain and part of the fun of shooting is the pleasure of ownership bit like owning a ferari even though a prius will do the same job.

 

[P1Fanatic]

Mind you I am now intrigued by the 692 and want to try one - Perhaps my son ought to buy the 686e off me! :lol:

Me too. Think I will be waiting for ever to find a left handed demo 692.

 

[Chard]

I wonder how many would shoot a really really cheap horrible gun if they shot well with it or would vanity be strong enough to make them persevere with a more aspirational gun. I admit to the latter cos i am vain and part of the fun of shooting is the pleasure of ownership bit like owning a ferari even though a prius will do the same job.

I had a Baikal once, but I shot it like a tit. :wacko:

 

[ips]

that doesnt count then

 

[wylye]

Watch the sales of Ceasar Guerini very closely over the next few months. Influenced? They certainly hope so!

 

[Salopian]

Is it fair to say that Perazzi sales have been due to Olympic results in the UK or could there be anything else that could have influenced Sporting gun sales?

 Is there anyone any good shooting  Sporting with a Perazzi ?

 I did hear that a chap from Hastings was having a bit of a run of good luck.

 

[Claydoos]

Is it fair to say that Perazzi sales have been due to Olympic results in the UK or could there be anything else that could have influenced Sporting gun sales?

 Is there anyone any good shooting  Sporting with a Perazzi ?

 I did hear that a chap from Hastings was having a bit of a run of good luck.

Best Sporting shot in Scotland uses one too!

 

[Salopian]

Bobby Bruce shoots a Beretta (and you can tell Stuart who said that, ha ha )

 

[Darkside]

Bobby Bruce shoots a Beretta (and you can tell Stuart who said that, ha ha )

Bobby Bruce shoots a Krieghoff K-80...

 

[Lock Stock & Barrel]

Never been influenced by what guns "top shooters" shoot - when I was buying my gun last September, I had no clue who any of the top shooters were (and frankly cared less). Never been into hero-worship or sycophancy.  

 

[PhilS]

Never been influenced by what guns "top shooters" shoot - when I was buying my gun last September, I had no clue who any of the top shooters where (and frankly cared less). Never been into hero-worship or sycophancy.  

Same here, wouldn't have known them if they'd have slapped me..............

I have just chosen ones that fit me and feel right.

 

[Salopian]

Bobby Bruce shoots anything he wants to.