Low Gun or Mounted

[Thefeeder]

Just curious as to which method other clay shooters are using.

I just started using a mix of the two. Always shot low gun on Skeet, recently bought a new toy with a bit longer stock, mounting was awkward. So I started with mounted gun and head off the wood. Did a bit better then usual. Did it last weekend on a round of Sporting Clays....went back to low gun start.

What do the other shooters out there prefer?

[BMC]

Mounted, cheek welded to the stock - always.

[JJ1911]

I went skeet shooting for the first time last week, and I seemed to do better using a mounted cheekweld.

[-hanko]

I went skeet shooting for the first time last week, and I seemed to do better using a mounted cheekweld.

Always low...skeet helps me kill more gamebirds. Somehow it's a biatch to hunt with the shotgun mounted all the time. Skeet helps me a bunch to mount the gun faster.

=hanko

[SubieRX]

Also a mix of both. I've only been shooting for a couple of months... but I started out always mounted. I've been trying to get consistent with low gun as I feel it'll be more beneficial for when I go hunting...

[Baron]

I still haven't shot Skeet yet, but when I shoot trap I usually have it mounted and cheek on the stock...

[BigDogatPlay]

Trap is typically shot with the gun already mounted. Skeet is typically shot with the gun started low. That was how I was taught to shoot them both way back when and I still shoot them that way. In competition the rules in skeet call for the gun to be held low and mounted after the pull, as the game is supposed to simulate a hunting experience.

Whatever works best for the individual shooter is what I always recommend,

[sargenv]

I tend to do better low gun. It's nearly second nature now.. When I hunt in the blind, the gun is usually resting on a cross beam waiting for me to grab it while calling in birds. Since no one walks around with a shotgun mounted in the field, low gun seems to make more sense.

Now if all you do is shoot thrown clays, and you want to hit them all the time, mounted with a cheek weld is likely the way to go. Since I shoot a number of games and actually hunt, the low gun position makes more sense to me.

In the not so distant past I tried shooting with the gun mounted and found that I did worse than when I was snap shooting from low gun, so for me, low gun it is.. The only place where I don't hold low gun is in skeet at station 8 low and high, I have a specific stance for JUST those two clays.

[Thefeeder]

Ditto Sargenv

Low gun is a habit from hunting and comes more natural.
The times I tried mounted, it seems to give me tunnel vision and I can't pick up the bird.

Since I'll be shooting for scores and hope it doesn't ruin my field shooting.

Tomorrow I'll try the semi mounted again (gun on shoulder, head off stock) Maybe if the stars line up I'll shoot my first 50...all I need is two more from my last showing ...does't that sound easy?

[caoboy]

Trap is typically shot with the gun already mounted. Skeet is typically shot with the gun started low. That was how I was taught to shoot them both way back when and I still shoot them that way. In competition the rules in skeet call for the gun to be held low and mounted after the pull, as the game is supposed to simulate a hunting experience.

Whatever works best for the individual shooter is what I always recommend,

When I was being taught, that is how it was. Keep the gun low, bring up and hit the target.

There was a kid there that I thought was doing well, until the instructor told him that what he is doing is great, but he just has the gun in a ready position, so when the clay comes up, he doesn't even move the gun, he just fires. Kid started low and started missing more. Made it a bit more fair for other people who were doing it 'correctly'.

It is more fun to have to follow/lead the target anyway, kind of like a "SURPRISE!" when the clay pops out and gives you more of a challenge, especially when you don't know which direction it is going to fly.

[Revoman]

If you're practicing for hunting, then low-hold. If you're practicing to shoot skeet and be the best, mounted. There are VERY few true champion skeet shooters that use a low mount.

The mount in skeet allows you to choose where you will break the bird. Sure it can be done from the low, but it usually means that the break will occur on the 'other' side of center stake when it should occur on your side or at center stake.

Repetition leads to perfection, when mounting the gun it's a little tougher to get it perfect every time. Mounted before calling for the bird assures that it is the most perfect that you can make it for that call.

It's all about consistancy if you want to be a true skeet ace.

[SubieRX]

It is more fun to have to follow/lead the target anyway, kind of like a "SURPRISE!" when the clay pops out and gives you more of a challenge, especially when you don't know which direction it is going to fly.

In skeet... you should know exactly where the bird is coming from.. and where it will go. Are you talking about trap?

[Thefeeder]

If you're practicing for hunting, then low-hold. If you're practicing to shoot skeet and be the best, mounted. There are VERY few true champion skeet shooters that use a low mount.

The mount in skeet allows you to choose where you will break the bird. Sure it can be done from the low, but it usually means that the break will occur on the 'other' side of center stake when it should occur on your side or at center stake.

Repetition leads to perfection, when mounting the gun it's a little tougher to get it perfect every time. Mounted before calling for the bird assures that it is the most perfect that you can make it for that call.

It's all about consistancy if you want to be a true skeet ace.

+1

We need to add International Skeet.... calls for manitory low gun start.

[caoboy]

In skeet... you should know exactly where the bird is coming from.. and where it will go. Are you talking about trap?

Maybe, I always mix those up.

Target is flying out from under you, away from you. Not across your line of vision. Either way, lowgun would be more challenging, no?

[SubieRX]

Maybe, I always mix those up.

Target is flying out from under you, away from you. Not across your line of vision. Either way, lowgun would be more challenging, no?

Yeah, thats trap. Lowgun seems much harder than pre-mounted (at least to me)... but I guess if you've been shooting lowgun all you're life... it might be hard to switch over.