Sounds like there are a few of us here! I shot competitively for a few years. I absolutely love the sport. It never got old for me. I quickly noticed it had many positive impacts to other sports due to training you to really learn how to look at an object in motion and slow it down from this orange blur, to this highly detailed target that just floats out there for you! I noticed my traditional bowhunting skills, and my action pistol shooting skills went through the roof when I shot sporting clays competitively. I also I found I picked game animals out from their background much more quickly.

I've shot a lot of guns. I had a Blaser F3 I was very fond of, but I also like the K-80s. A 32", trim, 20 bore Perazzi was equally nice in a completely different way. I have decided, that I will use a vintage gun when I return to the sport. It just makes me happy to do so, and that is what I hunt with. And like a good friend and mentor once told me, "...unlike others, never let using traditional equipment be an excuse for missing"! My profile/avatar picture shows me shooting a 16b Dickson round action at an event.