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Tips for Better Wingshooting
Where your shotgun shoots is a critical step in becoming a better wingshooter. Too few shotgunners pattern their shotguns. The main reason for patterning is to determine point of impact. Does the gun shoot straight? Test fire from a rest at some specified distance. You might be surprised by how many shotgun barrels print their patterns too far left, right or low. These deficiencies can be corrected by a professional gunsmith.
Another reason for patterning your shotgun is to confirm what you hope about how the gun handles different shot and chokes. Is the pattern dense at 40 yards with no. 6 shot as you expected? How about with no.4? Does that full choke actually put more than 70% of the pellets in a 30-inch circle at 40 yards? Or can you only count on 65 percent? Is that skeet choke a open as you figured with no. 9 shot? What about with no. 6?
Field Bird Dressing Technique
Here is a great technique for dressing game-birds of all sizes and especially handy way to deal with smaller ones.
Skin birds and clip off wings, head and lower legs with poultry scissors
Snip all the way along one side of the spine from tail to wishbone, do the same thing on the other side.
Take hold of the neck and pull the spine free, most of the entrails will come out with it. Even if it does not it is much easier to remove the lung tissue and other offal when the bird is laid fully open along the back than it is to dig blindly inside a body cavity.
