Smashing Pumpkins
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Went to an outdoor range yesterday. They have facilities for everything, pistol ranges, rifle ranges, tin can ranges and manual trap, where you load a spring loaded launcher one clay pigeon at a time. Planned to shoot trap and pistol, but also threw my home defense shotgun in the trunk hoping to try out some new buckshot on the tin can range as well. This place used to have a 24 inch barrel minimum on the trap range. I wasn't sure if that applied on the tin can range so I asked. They said they had dropped that rule on all ranges now, and I was free to shoot the short barrel on either tin can or trap range. I couldn't resist!
My home defense gun came out of the trunk. It is a Winchester Defender with 18 inch barrel and a stock cut down to a 12 LOP and some weight to the stock to make it balance better with the short stock. I didn't keep score, but was hitting half or more of the clays with the shorty. It was a hoot! I live in a pretty urban area, and used to only be able to shoot the shorty at an indoor range at seven yards with buckshot. That gets boring pretty fast.
The shorty would not be my first choice if I wanted to maximize my scores, but it felt great to be able to swing it at a moving target. You really get a feel for how handy and maneuverable the thing is. I plan to throw it in the car and put one box through it every time I shoot trap now. Am I the only one who thinks it's fun to shoot a shorty on the trap range?
My home defense gun came out of the trunk. It is a Winchester Defender with 18 inch barrel and a stock cut down to a 12 LOP and some weight to the stock to make it balance better with the short stock. I didn't keep score, but was hitting half or more of the clays with the shorty. It was a hoot! I live in a pretty urban area, and used to only be able to shoot the shorty at an indoor range at seven yards with buckshot. That gets boring pretty fast.
The shorty would not be my first choice if I wanted to maximize my scores, but it felt great to be able to swing it at a moving target. You really get a feel for how handy and maneuverable the thing is. I plan to throw it in the car and put one box through it every time I shoot trap now. Am I the only one who thinks it's fun to shoot a shorty on the trap range?