Thumbing through the latest Ducks Unlimited magazine and reading the great stories about shooting limits of big ducks in all sorts of hunting environments, my mind could not help but wander to my own shooting inabilities.

Here these story tellers tell about shooting their limits in just a couple of hours and on my last two outings I had plenty of opportunities to do that as well.  However, as most of you know my wing shooting abilities are about as good as, well lets just stop talking about it.

As I thumbed through the book here popped up an ad about a devise that is designed to help the shotgun shooter properly get his head down on that stock and align the barrel with his target.

So, I got up from my reading and came to my computer and looked up the site.  It somehow snaps to the rib of the “single barrel” shotgun and forces the shooter to aim and see a single green dot when he is properly mounted on the gun.  Any sign of red and you are not on it the way you should be.

It also said that 40% of  shooters are “left eye” dominant.  I found that amusing.  I will use that at the next Un-Turkey shoot.  And unlike my friend Magpie, will not attempt to shoot a shotgun in a manner not recommended by the manufacturer or common sense.  In other words, I will not try and shoot my shotgun left handed to see if it would improve my clay bird hitting abilities.  Instead I will accept my one to four bird hits and continue with my life.

Also on this site for this sight, I found a video that was quite cute and to the point in trying to sell the thing.  Two young girls who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, using the devise and both of them holding up a pheasant that appears they had taken.  And as all computer videos go, on the right side of the screen appears many more videos, some of which are on the same or similar subject to the one I just watched.  Again amused, I clicked on the one I have listed here and thought you just might want to watch it.  It too is cute and I hope you “get it”.  Copy and paste please.

Wish me luck tonight at the Central RAC meeting!

Bears Butt

November 8, 2012