Shooting clays with the scope on??...interesting!!

He does it with a drilling too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=src-r8oDTzk

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Originally posted by JonP:
Shooting clays with the scope on??...interesting!!

It just takes practice. I've done it for years, hunting deer in chuckar and blue grouse country with drillings with scopes mounted.

I shoot equally poorly either way. It poses no handicap, IMO.

Kidding aside, it isn't hard to master shooting with the scope mounted. With both eyes on the bird and a feel of the gun with practice it's not a big handicap. The added weight of the scope and mounts does slow things down, and I think that hampers wing shooting more than the scope in the way.

Shooting clays with the scope on is simply to demonstrate you can hit clays or fast moving objects without removing it first. I prefer 1x or 1.5x variable scopes matched to combo guns. Red dots are even a better choice. 6x is more than enough for deer to 200m with the 7x57R and 7x65R.

I find 4X about ideal for a 7X65R drilling in our wide open spaces where we often are presented 250-350 yard cross-canyon shots. Even a 6X is not to high magnification and is sometime advantageous.

I've taken deer at nearly 400 yards with the 7X65R and the good set trigger.

I would have been more impressed if he had been hitting those clays with the rifle bbl... lol

All kidding aside, when I was younger, this was a common group for my "go to drilling",



BUT, I never have shot ANYTHING at 400 yards, in fact I pass on those long shots, and I don't mind going home without a shot...

I did shoot a coyote at something over 300 though, a 200NP through the ribs did the trick. lol

DM

It's common here to sight in at 300 yards, and I seldom take a shot over 350, but a very nice buck a relatively short haul DOWN hill to the truck at 400 yards is in trouble.

Nicely done Chuck!

I've also shot clays with both BBF and drilling, each with a 1.5-6 scope on. Chuck was there to see me roll a hare going full gallop through the pine forest with the BBF too, years ago, and that is by no means the only one of those, as well as sundry other critters, both flying and running, that I've taken with the scope on.

I too think that a 1.5-6 is pretty near ideal on a combination or drilling. Not only do you have the ability to shoot the running and flying critters with both eyes open, but enough magnification to reach well out there.

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Originally posted by DM:
I would have been more impressed if he had been hitting those clays with the rifle bbl... lol

All kidding aside, when I was younger, this was a common group for my "go to drilling",



BUT, I never have shot ANYTHING at 400 yards, in fact I pass on those long shots, and I don't mind going home without a shot...

I did shoot a coyote at something over 300 though, a 200NP through the ribs did the trick. lol

DM

Precision shooting!

Rates a two-cool...

Good groups. My experience with my Ferlach BBF is shoots accurately, but you have to shoot slowly and let barrel cool completely between shots, otherwise they go high.

As far as I am concerned, its a hunting gun and first shot is what counts.

It can be a bit of a pain, if you are paying £15 for half an hour on a tunnel range, and you want to test a few loads.