I live in a city - my only experience with my Win 1300 defender was shooting slugs (all they allow) at an indoor range. Only really bought the thing "because I can".
Went to an outdoor range today with a couple of friends shooting pistol. I went off to the shotgun area (isolated) to pattern it with buckshot. The box I had set up for the targeting kept moving when I hit it. I soon figured out that I could play "kick the can" by rapid-firing at the box.
My buddy shows up at the shotgun area, so we went back to "sign him in" to the shotgun area. He's shot skeet before, so he decides to pick up a few targets. "Just get a few" I said "shooting skeet is dumb anyway" - but the woman suggests we take the crate and pay for what we use.
Okay, we're not pros - we just launched one of those red disc-looking things at a time; but had a blast. It started raining so hard I couldn't see through my glasses, and we STILL had a blast. The gun got so soaked through and through that now I have to go and pull it down to dry and oil its innards (barrel already taken care of though).
Never DID get around to patterning the gun properly - only really patterned 000 buck (I had many loads to try out). Hope I get around to it someday - won't be next weekend as we'll be back there with MORE shells, more skeet/trap targets and probably more shotguns.
Just how many shells CAN a shotgun/shotgun barrel take before wearing out?
cheers,
Battler.
Went to an outdoor range today with a couple of friends shooting pistol. I went off to the shotgun area (isolated) to pattern it with buckshot. The box I had set up for the targeting kept moving when I hit it. I soon figured out that I could play "kick the can" by rapid-firing at the box.
My buddy shows up at the shotgun area, so we went back to "sign him in" to the shotgun area. He's shot skeet before, so he decides to pick up a few targets. "Just get a few" I said "shooting skeet is dumb anyway" - but the woman suggests we take the crate and pay for what we use.
Okay, we're not pros - we just launched one of those red disc-looking things at a time; but had a blast. It started raining so hard I couldn't see through my glasses, and we STILL had a blast. The gun got so soaked through and through that now I have to go and pull it down to dry and oil its innards (barrel already taken care of though).
Never DID get around to patterning the gun properly - only really patterned 000 buck (I had many loads to try out). Hope I get around to it someday - won't be next weekend as we'll be back there with MORE shells, more skeet/trap targets and probably more shotguns.
Just how many shells CAN a shotgun/shotgun barrel take before wearing out?
cheers,
Battler.
Now that you know better, get to a trap range. Lots of good threads here in the last 60 days on skeet and trap.