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Took my new GUN for it's first outing to one of Lou's skeet clinic's. Huge thank you to Lou btw. I have to say that while it was Lou who set this up I was his wife that was running a clinic 
Anyway, as I said this was my first chance to break out my new shotgun and as you can expect it was amazing to shoot. I had taken Lou's clinic before, back in June. At that time I had brought my Mossberg 500 pump shotgun with 28" Barrel. As if a pump wasn't challenging enough it was a factory choke at Improved Modified (1 step from a full choke. Also this Mossberg was designed as a HD gun. Hollow plastic stock, plastic foregrip, aluminum mag and receiver. Everything that makes this a great HD gun, light and fast, makes it hard to use for skeet
As such you can imagine the change to a full sized O/U with heavy double barrels and lots of gorgeous Turkish Walnut was like night and day. I swear when I took that first shot I wasn't sure that it had gone off. And that weight helped in other ways. My swings were a lot smoother. I was getting crossing birds much easier then before. This is not to say that I was breaking every clay. I was having significant trouble with my doubles. Not sure what is going on there but it's something to work on.
But overall I certainly felt more comfortable with this gun. I shot from the low position and it shouldered very naturally for me. Barrel selection on the fly is nice except for when you forget to switch it back. Nothing sucks more then calling for the bird, pulling the trigger and hearing nothing but a click.
One outing isn't much to go on but still, for a $800 to $900, gun I'm very impressed. I shot well, it looks great and it certainly made me feel like I was breaking twice as many clays. And at this price point I won't feel bad about taking it duck hunting.
I'll add more to this thread as I get more chance to shoot it.
Anyway, as I said this was my first chance to break out my new shotgun and as you can expect it was amazing to shoot. I had taken Lou's clinic before, back in June. At that time I had brought my Mossberg 500 pump shotgun with 28" Barrel. As if a pump wasn't challenging enough it was a factory choke at Improved Modified (1 step from a full choke. Also this Mossberg was designed as a HD gun. Hollow plastic stock, plastic foregrip, aluminum mag and receiver. Everything that makes this a great HD gun, light and fast, makes it hard to use for skeet
As such you can imagine the change to a full sized O/U with heavy double barrels and lots of gorgeous Turkish Walnut was like night and day. I swear when I took that first shot I wasn't sure that it had gone off. And that weight helped in other ways. My swings were a lot smoother. I was getting crossing birds much easier then before. This is not to say that I was breaking every clay. I was having significant trouble with my doubles. Not sure what is going on there but it's something to work on.
But overall I certainly felt more comfortable with this gun. I shot from the low position and it shouldered very naturally for me. Barrel selection on the fly is nice except for when you forget to switch it back. Nothing sucks more then calling for the bird, pulling the trigger and hearing nothing but a click.
One outing isn't much to go on but still, for a $800 to $900, gun I'm very impressed. I shot well, it looks great and it certainly made me feel like I was breaking twice as many clays. And at this price point I won't feel bad about taking it duck hunting.
I'll add more to this thread as I get more chance to shoot it.
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