Unless you're on one of the shotgun specific message boards, you don't hear allot of talk about people and their shotguns. I'm getting the feeling that most purchase their SG, run some rounds through it in the beginning, re-load it, then store it away hoping to never need it after that. Is that the case for your folks? Every once in awhile, a few times a year, I'll take my SG to the range and run some rounds through it, but it's a rare event. My normal trip to the range is with my handguns or other rifles. I'm sure we have some hunters out here, who probably use their SG's with more regularity.

I have one 16ga pump shotgun and I only use it for clay shooting, as to which I have been really getting into lately.

Atleast once a week. I goto the local wma and shoot it a lot. People look at me strange since I have a tacticool shotgun, and I'm loading as I shoot through the reciever. Train how u may have to use it

Not often enough. I'll do sporting clays a few times a year and use a thrower at my range a few times a year. I'll also do tactical shoots a few times a year. Grand total, I take the shotguns shooting 6-10 times a year.

I have a shotgun , but I am not familiar with it. I plan to try and shoot it soon . It is too big for me , so it would be more something Pete would shoot with frequency.

 

Funny , I was going to post about this today anyway. I am actually torn between a CX Storm 45 ACP or a Tacticool shotgun for HD. ( I don't want to derail Ray's thread , I'll post an opinion thread later - so no need to help me choose on this thread )

 

Whichever of those two I get , it will come to the range with me each trip because I like to always run a few rounds through the guns I would use for HD , to stay current.

So rarely that i sold it to fund the AR build...

NOT ENOUGH!

 

I guess I go through a case of shells a week on average when the weather is nice. Winter months about a case a month.

Rarely... buckshot costs a lot to practice with. But I do clay shooting though!

Not enough either. My home range doesn't have an area to shoot clays

I feel kinda dumb unless I can move and shoot with the thing. Shooting at a target from 10 yards away gets old quickly. After a few blasts, the thing is full of holes.

Shotgun? as in only one? That's a weird concept. I shoot at least half of my shotguns on a regular basis. More so in the nice weather though. I try to rotate the use of all my guns as I do not want any of them to feel neglected.

Funny , I was going to post about this today anyway. I am actually torn between a CX Storm 45 ACP or a Tacticool shotgun for HD. ( I don't want to derail Ray's thread , I'll post an opinion thread later - so no need to help me choose on this thread )

 

A CX4 Storm .45 ACP with the buttstock magazine holder and 15 round extension would effectively give you 46 rounds of .45 ACP ready to go.

 

I can't think of any situation where you would need that much firepower, but that's exactly the point.

I can't think of any situation where you would need that much firepower.........

 

Zombies

or Hippies

Every once in awhile, a few times a year, I'll take my SG to the range and run some rounds through it, but it's a rare event. My normal trip to the range is with my handguns or other rifles.

 

That's about it for me as well, although I did take a full day class with MDTS last December, which seemed pretty intense, given my limited experience. I plan to take Urban Shotgun 1 at Gun for Hire this Sunday, 4/15, which I'm hoping will just be a refresher. Has anyone else taken or plan to take any training classes for shotgun?

I haven't even bought ammo for mine yet... lol. However, i bought mine to shoot clays, and picked up a barrel from a forum member for HD. So i expect my shotgun to get some good use now that the weather is warming up.

or Hippies

 

Or hipsters.

 

I finished my build about a month ago and haven't shot it yet. I may this weekend if I have time.

Was using the M2 for clays every 2 or 3 weeks for a while then broke in a Saiga-12 shooting clays at the Clinton WMA (that was fun). But since I finally bought an O/U I have just been using that.

Shotgun? as in only one? That's a weird concept. I shoot at least half of my shotguns on a regular basis. More so in the nice weather though. I try to rotate the use of all my guns as I do not want any of them to feel neglected.

 

That was my thought as well, shotguns are like boots - I have different ones for different purposes.

 

In the fall and winter they are in use quite a lot during hunting season.

That was my thought as well, shotguns are like boots - I have different ones for different purposes.

 

In the fall and winter they are in use quite a lot during hunting season.

 

I'd love to get out more with the shotguns in the winter for hunting. I am using a shotgun for hunting for the first time for spring turkey season. I guess I am finally making the switch in mentality that shotguns are for more than shooting clays and people.

a whole lot i used to shoot atleast 250 - 300 shells a week at minimum, now however with classes in full swing, work, a new car payment and such not a lot of funds to do much of any shooting besides dry firing lol.

every 2 months, if possible

On average, i shoot my HD shotgun once every 2 weeks. Even if its only a few handfulls of buckshot, ill still shoot it a few times to keep my muscle memory from getting rusty

I shoot my 12 gauge pump every week, with 50-75 rounds of birdshot doing clays at Old Bridge. For the last round in the box, I'll hold the pump strong hand only and hit 50-60% of the time.

 

Then I attend the third Sunday Shotgun League Match which is another 2 boxes of ammo.

 

Once in a while I'll treat myself to a trip to Lehigh Sporting Clays, where I'm good for 2/3 of a case in a single outing. Ditto with the Red Wing and Cedar Creek Sporting Clays places in South Jersey.

 

For hunting I use my black powder double barrel 10 gauge muzzleloading shotgun. I often practice with it at Old Bridge during bird season.

 

I love to shoot my shotguns, and do so throughout the entire calendar year, in the snow, in the heat or on a perfect hunting day!

 

Dave

I'm pleased to hear the amount of folks who are giving their SG's a work-out. It sure beats leaving them locked-away, hoping to never use them. The problem I have with this thread, is that it's taught me that I really "should" have more than just (1) shotgun. What the hell was I thinking otherwise?

One for Sporting Clays

 

One for Trap

 

One for Hunting

 

One for HD/Competition (Tacticool)

 

One Youth Model to teach Kids & Women how to shoot

 

And that's just my bare minimum........

I'm pleased to hear the amount of folks who are giving their SG's a work-out. It sure beats leaving them locked-away, hoping to never use them. The problem I have with this thread, is that it's taught me that I really "should" have more than just (1) shotgun. What the hell was I thinking otherwise?

 

You could always get one with a combo barrel... that way you can use it for both clays and HD... or hunting and HD.

I bought my 12 gauge about a year ago, and put about 55 shells through it a couple months ago. I hardly use it. I'd love to get into clay shooting though, it seems fun.

I bought my 12 gauge about a year ago, and put about 55 shells through it a couple months ago. I hardly use it. I'd love to get into clay shooting though, it seems fun.

 

Look-up Cedar Creek in Millville, NJ. They have hosted the State Championships, and are a nice course!

Cedar Creek is certainly a walk through the woods, so is M&M.

 

From memory without looking in the safes, I have a 12G Rem 870 for the wife, a 20G Rem 1100 for my niece, a 12G Rem 1100 I used to use, a 12G Rem Police 870 for HD, a Saiga-12 for shooting steel and all-around FUN, a spare 12G Rem 870, and my baby, my Browning 525 O/U. All of them but the spare 870 get used, the Browning gets a good workout!