It is indeed a well balanced, lightning fast little number. My wife, who had never before fired at a clay pigeon, broke 8 of 10 straight away clays. I read as much as I could from the archives about gun fit, proper mounting, and recoil control and it worked marvelously. She was shooting high at first when shooting at the patterning board, but that was from not "scrunching" her cheek down onto the stock. After I explained to her about her eye being the rear sight and what the proper sight picture should be she started hitting right on with a little over half of the pattern hitting above the aim point. Then we decided to try some clays. I told her to quit shooting when she felt even the slightest bit of discomfort in her shoulder. This happened to occur on the 10th clay thrown so we quit while everyone was happy. I think as her arm strength increases she will be able to pull the gun tighter into her shoulder, thus mitigating the effects of the recoil. She also said that she felt her concentration on form fall apart when she started focussing on the bird but thought that this could be fixed with practice. She had a blast and definitely wants to try it again. She even is getting excited about pheasant season.
