What to Look For in Buying Your First Trap Shooting

What to Look For in Buying Your First Trap Shooting Gun

The most common question when buying your first trap shooting gun is whats the best? Well, the answer is the one that hits the most targets.

Be the Master not the Mastered

Most people buying their first trap shooting gun will usually pick a gun, find out how it shoots and try to conform themselves to it. Shooters simply buy a gun off the shelf and then learn its intricacies and then adjust to it. Many people cannot hit a target even if their lives depend on it. That is because their guns dont fit. Having a gun fit you is as simple as going to a stock fitter and having your gun altered to fit you.

The Best Gun to Buy

For beginners the autoloader shotgun is highly recommended. The gun can be used for all games: sporting clays, singles, doubles, handicap, you name it. Whats more its stock can easily be adjusted to fit all sizes of reach. Its ideal for most people and especially for women because it has low recoil. Unfortunately autoloaders do have the tendency to jam, so it may give you a bit of a situation during doubles. But overall it is probably the best first trap shooting gun you could buy.

The most favoured trap shooting gun by pros is the single-barrel break-open trap gun. However, this gun only fires one round so it could not be used for doubles. Its stronger, but has more recoil. The single-barrel break-open trap gun is great because it needs less maintenance due to fewer moving parts.

A Word of Advice to First Time Buyers

Buying your first trap shooting gun can be intimidating but it does not need to be. Pros used different sets of guns for different kinds of game. Mastering and getting the feel of a single gun is easier than practicing with two or more. Each gun is unique. If you keep on changing guns while you practice, you will never be able to really concentrate on learning what is necessary, because you will be too busy trying to master the different kinds of gun that you use.

Keep in mind, that the learning curve for each gun is great. You may have the skills to learn to shoot and hit the target with two guns; but will you have the luxury of time?