I have a Browning BPS Stalker, 12 ga., 26" bbl. My problem is that since I had it, I have a tendency to shoot under my target (live or clay bird). I also get slapped in the face everytime I shoot it. I have tried holding in different positions, but nothing seems to work. I bought one of the first BPS when they came on the market in the late eighty's and that was a sweet shooting gun. Had to sell it due to financial reasons. I have had this Stalker about 3 years and it has been a pain to master. Any suggestions?

"Bend" the butstock to make less drop. Remove the butstock and shave wood from the top where it meets the receiver. Use inletting black and work slowly.

The Stalker has a synthetic stock.

dixiejack:

You mention that you have a "tendency" to undershoot whether at live birds or at clays. Frankly this suggests to me that you have the same way of setting up to shoot at both -when they are very different. The clay bird is going up (from a trap field) or out (from a skeet field) with one major difference from a live bird. IT is not accelerating. It also is dropping because of the law of gravity. If you swing in the excitement of the swing on a clay bird, you should be able to figure out fairly quickly after some rounds what your errors of swing might be in skeet. ((the bird never changes. In trap,keep in mind that the bird just doesn't move that quick - not even at No.5 station) Frankly, before you spend a lot of money on being fitted for a custom shotgun, try to remember the old Roman expression:" "Festina lente" (Make haste slowly) Not even at the No 7 and certainly not at even No..8 station (where almost no lead is needed at all other than to get out at the head of the bird if it moves off the direct line) in skeet should you rush. Undershooting may be a result of not mounting the shotgun correctly. You're not engaged in a quick draw contest of pistols with some one. You are bringing up the shotgun and pointing. Frankly, "undershooting" (a problem of many wing shooters)is a function of how you mount the gun and has nothing to do with the gun itself. (Duck hunters rarely undershoot. Why? because we know that we need the gun securely mounted and tucked in (to handle the heavy loads) and that also insures that we will point the shotgun at the right attitude. Misses? Sure! (Not me, of course! But if we miss it's a failure to lead or a failure of deflection shots (angle shots)Ducks give all kinds of angle shots as any shooter from a blind knows. BTW, how did you find out about undershooting? That should also help you to correct the problem.