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theghostrider · October 17, 2008, 10:35 AM

I've been using a single shot to hunt squirrels with for about 25 years. Just this year, I started doing research on how to properly mount and shoot a shotgun

. There is much I have to learn.

To answer a question you posed. Receiver does not = target. The receiver is the part of the shotgun that contains the action. In this case, the action is slide or pump. Other examples of action would be auto (M16), semi-auto (11-87), lever (Model 94 Winchester), bolt (Remington 700), breach (often seen on double barrels, or single shots). Yours is a pump (or slide) action. The receiver is the part where the shells are loaded and ejected, and that to which the stock and barrel are attached.

The sight line is on the top of the receiver, and is sometimes grooved, sometimes not. For a beginner such as yourself, when mounting the gun http://thefiringline.com/forums/show...threadid=11646
you should be able to look down the receiver and barrel to the front bead. That bead should be just below or on your target. Use your eye as a rear sight, and the target as the front. When you see the front bead, it should be almost all you see. You'll see the receiver also, but only a small fraction of it, and no barrel should be visible. This of course rely upon having a consistent anchor point, or cheek weld on the stock.

You absolutely need to pattern the gun. Without knowing where the gun is hitting, you won't know the problem. http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=11817

You say that you don't have anyplace to shoot the gun for patterning. Where are you shooting the gun, if you've no place to shoot it? Why not set something up temporarily there just so you'll know where it's hitting?

October 17, 2008, 10:35 AM	#31
theghostrider Junior Member Join Date: February 23, 2008 Posts: 9	I've been using a single shot to hunt squirrels with for about 25 years. Just this year, I started doing research on how to properly mount and shoot a shotgun. There is much I have to learn. To answer a question you posed. Receiver does not = target. The receiver is the part of the shotgun that contains the action. In this case, the action is slide or pump. Other examples of action would be auto (M16), semi-auto (11-87), lever (Model 94 Winchester), bolt (Remington 700), breach (often seen on double barrels, or single shots). Yours is a pump (or slide) action. The receiver is the part where the shells are loaded and ejected, and that to which the stock and barrel are attached. The sight line is on the top of the receiver, and is sometimes grooved, sometimes not. For a beginner such as yourself, when mounting the gun http://thefiringline.com/forums/show...threadid=11646 you should be able to look down the receiver and barrel to the front bead. That bead should be just below or on your target. Use your eye as a rear sight, and the target as the front. When you see the front bead, it should be almost all you see. You'll see the receiver also, but only a small fraction of it, and no barrel should be visible. This of course rely upon having a consistent anchor point, or cheek weld on the stock. You absolutely need to pattern the gun. Without knowing where the gun is hitting, you won't know the problem. http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=11817 You say that you don't have anyplace to shoot the gun for patterning. Where are you shooting the gun, if you've no place to shoot it? Why not set something up temporarily there just so you'll know where it's hitting?