stu1607
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Anybody used a VR shotgun for training? The headset, stock and game add up to quite a bit, so dont want to be wasting money. I would think the lack of recoil would make it pretty usesless?
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Is VR shotgun a useful training tool
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rocketdogbert
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No. Go and shoot, it’s really the only way
skeet_200
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Shotgun shooting is built on just two skills. Firstly getting a "hard visual lock" on the target. Then executing the shot with smooth, consistent, instinctive gunhandling.
Live practice is expensive but dry mounting and gun handling practice with a well fitted real gun can go a long way to building your foundations.
There were some posts by people planning to use VR systems about a year ago. I don't remember anyone providing updates/feedback despite their initial enthusiasm.
Live practice is expensive but dry mounting and gun handling practice with a well fitted real gun can go a long way to building your foundations.
There were some posts by people planning to use VR systems about a year ago. I don't remember anyone providing updates/feedback despite their initial enthusiasm.
I find just picking the gun up and mounting it onto imaginary targets works well for me. I start a few weeks before the beginning of the season. Particularly important for Fitasc Sporting (Parcour de chasse) where the gun starts 25cm below the shoulder in contact with the body. If that movement isn't perfect it will result in a mis-mount and a miss.
Hi Stu 1607, my brother and I got into shooting in our early teens, we bought a clay trap & later joined clubs. The best description of our shooting was occasional success, 50/50 shooting, as many misses as hits. This lasted years and years, until chatting to a chap who shot for the county. The problem was, I would shoot any old cartridge I could get hold of, usually the cheapest as I was always hard up! Each cartridge has a different characteristic to another, so it was until I started shooting a single cartridge, for me 'Olympic Trap' that things changed. One also needs a 'sighter', someone to stand behind and let you know where your shooting, If you don't know if your behind or in front, how can you improve? I remember on one stand, from a high tower, the guy behind said allow the length of a BIC ballpoint pen in front of your sight! I had never led by so much in all my life, but I hit it. Also a last tip is to shoot with someone better than you, someone who will help. Perhaps I was lucky that the county shooter was a neighbour, that my business improved allowing me to buy cartridges by the thousand, and stick to one brand. But I did get quite handy. Every blessing. CSW,
I had exactly the same experience on a high tower at Northampton @C S W . Missed every single one and a local lad behind said "double it". So next time I did and centred them, but it was a heck of a way in front. Once shot a stand of a distant crossing pair and aiming for the front one (maintained lead) hit the one 2 metres behind it. But you need to be confident of whoever is giving you feedback, because I saw someone telling a novice he was behind a following single fast crosser down in a gully when he was in fact in front. He continued to tell him he was still behind it and the poor chap ended up perhaps 10 metres in front on the last pair!
Back to the VR shotgun. Perhaps great fun for someone who hasn't actually done any shooting, but of no practical value otherwise in my opinion. Maybe spend the money on proper coaching?
Back to the VR shotgun. Perhaps great fun for someone who hasn't actually done any shooting, but of no practical value otherwise in my opinion. Maybe spend the money on proper coaching?
Hi Gers32, you are so right if your sighter is rubbish then so are you! All this is built out of trust. I have met many chaps who simply can not sight! Blessings. CSW.