Guide to gun fitting for men and women, taking into consideration head and hand placement. What to look for to get a good fit, essential to shooting well.
Apologies I haven’t made any more videos yet, I was diagnosed with cancer shortly after making this one, my treatment had taken a few years to complete but I will hopefully be back very soon 😊
You did a great job with this. You were repeating what my first instructor told me almost word for word. A helpful hint regarding your choke tubes. Get a little automotive anti-seize and put a small dab on the threads. That will help keep the threads from locking up.
The only thing in my opinion is shooting at a pattern plate to me theres no way to aim directly center of the plate your better off shooting at a go away target to get an idea of what your aiming at but all your o the point were spot on great video.
Comb Butt Plate 7:25 Straight Head 8:28 Mirror Practice 10:24 Looking Down the Barrel 11:06 Pattern Plate 12:12 Gun Condition 12:54 Assess New Gun 14:24
So glad I came across your video! Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise. Would love to contact you if you're willing to answer questions.
Great job well done. Had lung cancer in 2005 with top left lobe removed. Still shooting at 85. Having an adjustable comb and butt makes adjustments easy for clothing and body changes. Love my Beretta 682 Gold.
In Montana when I hunt huns in September I am wearing a T-shirt, when I hunt roosters in late December with a thick parka there is 2 inches thicker clothes. So length of pull varies depending on whether the hunting temperature is 70F or 10F. There is a tremendous variation in length of pull preferred among world class shooters:th-cam.com/video/MihfeSnVJR4/w-d-xo.html Consistent check weld pressure and sighting down the rib is key. Easy to check by taping a drinking straw on the rib. Close your eyes, mount the gun, open your eyes. You should see the shotgun bead looking straight through the drinking straw.
When shooters find a gun they love for shotgun shooting, its very hard for them to get rid of it. I commonly see worn out guns that are not worth fixing come into our shop but its a gun the customer shoots well with and they don't want to replace it with a new gun.
Thanks for uploading. Yesterday was my first day with my friend's shotgun shooting trap and I feel like I've started admiring this beautiful sport. I've learnt a lot from this video.
Thank you so much for such a great video. I really enjoyed the part about your right finger following the target. And especially keeping your head level upon mounting. I'll keep these tips in mind when I go to the shooting range next week.
I found that most guns don't fit me well. Need to put my jaw to the stock on some of them - so bad, but I adapt well with rifles and static targets. For trap and skeet on the other hand, I'll need a better gun that fits. Thanks for your advice :)
Just found your video on gun fit and I appreciate the frank and direct presentation. I just bought a used Fabarm XLR5 Velocity and am still learning on it. My grandson is doing well on my Franchi Instinct SL. As we sort out the fit and comfort for each of us, I will be reminded of your video. Thank you.
very informative, but one safety point (esp. for youtube), show us that it is unloaded, as we don't know that it is {lore is to assume that it is, UNLESS proven otherwise}; so a quick look for us down the breech, or a "jag" or other object in there to show us no cartridge is in it, then you can fling it around, and we don't mind, as we know the neighbours dog and cat are safe 🙂.
Very nice tutorial. One thing that can help enormously to the fit is to find a gun with a slight 'cast off' in it's stock for a right hander or a 'cast on' stock for a left hander. Even some relatively cheap shotguns are made this way from the factory i.e. Berettas.
Funnily enough, I had my gun rebuilt in the last 6 months as it was starting to fall apart when I shot! Good job done and reasonable price by UK Gun Repairs 😊 I’ve owned my gun, from new for over 20 years so yes, it’s had a lot of cartridges though, it had become incredibly loose and needed a new top leaver too. Embarrassingly I’d also got a choke stuck in it, so that also was drilled out and replaced. The gun is back like new, just a bit too tight now, need to put some more cartridges through it to loosen it up 😂😂
Interesting point about the trigger finger pointing at the point of aim. That's reminiscent of the thumbs forwards pistol grip with thumbs basically aiming at the target.
Found your video and first I thought… “who’s this…”? So glad I found this VERY informative video. So much information in a short video. Thank you SO MUCH….!!
Hullo.I am mighty impressed to c this video.I have gone through number of videos but this has clarified 99 percent of my questions on shot gun stocks.I would love to c more videos on related subject like skeet,trap and game guns by this impressive speaker.Stay blessed & Thank you.
Great explanation with allowance for women shooter, would love to see you return and repeat the same video with how any of your insights may have developed.
You should be concerned about your stuck choke and get it sorted as soon as possible, I have removed several stuck chokes only to discover very badly pitted barrels which could render the gun out of proof !
I've been around a long time and contend that shooters today very often mount guns with stocks that are far too straight. With the butt in their delto-pectoral groove (if they do manage to seat it there), they have to contort themselves to get their heads down, often abusing their cheeks. Shooters should at least try guns from the early part of the last century when the drops at heel and comb were greater than seen today. A more comfortable stance will result and the gun will be more likely to point where you're actually looking. This is especially true of SXS doubles that I prefer. High walled O/U guns could tolerate straighter stocks but the coveted low profile actions less so. Anyhow, one old guy's opinion (and experience).
Very clear and informative! I have had shoulder cuff problems for two years now, but also want a 12 gauge shotgun. My surgery was 7 weeks ago, so I will have to wait a few more months until I can shoot one. Currently I am trying to learn as much as possible about shotguns so I can make an educated decision when the time arrives. Thank you for the video!
I NOTICED THAT HE SHOULDER'S THE SHOTGUN ON HIS CHEST AND NOT ON HIS SHOULDER. IF HE SHOULDERED ON HIS SHOULDER HE WOULD NOT NEED THE EXTRA LENGTH OF PULL THAT HE RECOMMENDS AND WOULD PROBABLY DO VERY WELL WITH A STANDARD L OF PULL. ALSO, TRY TO SHOOT THE SHORTEST LENGTH OF PULL THAT KEEPS YOUR THUMB FROM HITTING YOUR NOSE. THANK YOU.
Just started into shotguns. Most informative! Now I have a true idea as to how a gun should fit instead of how 'cowboy' I can look. Just subbed, excellent presentation.👍👍😎
I would liked to have seen a demonstration of mounting the gun from the gun down position into the shooting position all in one movement then turning and pointing the gun at the camera to show the eye position looking down the rib. A one pound coin about 2" forward of the top chamber seems to give the best view down the rib for the bead floating above the coin with the head in the correct position. As a general rule a 3 finger gap between the nose and the thumb is a good guide to head position. A lot of beginners try to cock their head over the stock instead of resting the cheek into the comb sometimes this is caused by them trying to line up their cross dominant eye with the rib. that's why its always best to do a eye dominance test first but if the gun don't fit in the first place the whole thing becomes problematic . I would not expect someone else's suit to fit me so why would their gun ? good vid!!
With love from Texas - you should do more videos on shooting sports! What a delight and very nicely done. Would love to hear what you say about the different shotgun disciplines and your personal recommendations.
At 08:50 she talks about keeping the head straight and that is ofcourse totally true, however there is a reason that people tilt their heads and that is the gun not fitting them properly in the first place. Guns are made such that most people have to crouch their shoulders upwards and their necks forwards and downwards to get the eyes down onto the rib line of sight. I had this issue myself not even knowing for two years, until I tried a high rib which totally made the gun fit me - not the other way around. With a high rib this lady and many others with her would not have to crouch and compress her upper body onto the gun, but rather it would allow her to shoot in an perfectly relaxed upper body position as well as increase her field of view onto the targets. A high rib totally changed my shooting for the better and I will never go back having tried it for a few weeks. I Skeet this becomes even more important than in Trap because you will eliminate much unnecssary body movement during mounting, wich allows for less body coordination and complexity of movement while trying to brake the first target.
unfortunately a lot of shooters tend to HUNCH their shoulders as they mount the gun and don't even know they are doing it until its pointed out to them and their not always beginners. The shoulders should always be down and relaxed for a fluid mount and swing. What you describe is a fundamentally bad mount. I would recommend finding a good experienced instructor and booking some hands on lessons
Apologies I haven’t made any more videos yet, I was diagnosed with cancer shortly after making this one, my treatment had taken a few years to complete but I will hopefully be back very soon 😊
Awesome!! Looking foreword to the next video! Stat well! 👍🏻👍🏻
A great informative video. I am sorry to hear about your health issues, I wish you a speedy and complete recovery. Best wishes from Liverpool 👍🌹.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Hope your beating the big C. Wish you all the best. Oh and thank you for making such an informative video.
You did a great job with this. You were repeating what my first instructor told me almost word for word. A helpful hint regarding your choke tubes. Get a little automotive anti-seize and put a small dab on the threads. That will help keep the threads from locking up.
Getting fitted in 1 week Fantastic video.
The clearest explanation of gun fit I've seen, by a long way. Thank you!
Excellent well explained.
The only thing in my opinion is shooting at a pattern plate to me theres no way to aim directly center of the plate your better off shooting at a go away target to get an idea of what your aiming at but all your o the point were spot on great video.
Comb Butt Plate 7:25
Straight Head 8:28
Mirror Practice 10:24
Looking Down the Barrel 11:06
Pattern Plate 12:12
Gun Condition 12:54
Assess New Gun 14:24
So glad I came across your video! Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise. Would love to contact you if you're willing to answer questions.
A very proper explanation!!
Nice constructive video, but what do you wear in the winter?
Off topic a little, is your husband's gun an skb or made by them? Looks like a 685-785.
Nice video, very informative for beginners, still laughing at your comment , “ some men aren’t built like men “ , lol.
I have to say a most informative and well presented instructional vid to help us newbies
Your husband is so lucky to have a companion that likes to shoot and knows what they're talking about. :)
Well Done..
The best gun fit tutorial I've seen. Been shooting nearly a year now and learned a lot from that. Thanks!
Great job well done. Had lung cancer in 2005 with top left lobe removed. Still shooting at 85. Having an adjustable comb and butt makes adjustments easy for clothing and body changes. Love my Beretta 682 Gold.
very good, learnt more form that video on gun fit than many others, thank you.
Truly great tutorial. This is very helpful and you have a great way of teaching. Hope you are well ❤
madam .... you have very Simplified explanation method and clear. wish you do a new videos about the choke sizes please . God bless you
Bader Hazena
This answered so many questions. Excellent effort and a great help.
In Montana when I hunt huns in September I am wearing a T-shirt, when I hunt roosters in late December with a thick parka there is 2 inches thicker clothes. So length of pull varies depending on whether the hunting temperature is 70F or 10F. There is a tremendous variation in length of pull preferred among world class shooters:th-cam.com/video/MihfeSnVJR4/w-d-xo.html
Consistent check weld pressure and sighting down the rib is key. Easy to check by taping a drinking straw on the rib. Close your eyes, mount the gun, open your eyes. You should see the shotgun bead looking straight through the drinking straw.
Taping a straw is a good tip.! Thanks
When shooters find a gun they love for shotgun shooting, its very hard for them to get rid of it. I commonly see worn out guns that are not worth fixing come into our shop but its a gun the customer shoots well with and they don't want to replace it with a new gun.
I am waiting new video
You are wonderful woman , God bless you dear
Thanks
Bader hazena
Thanks for uploading. Yesterday was my first day with my friend's shotgun shooting trap and I feel like I've started admiring this beautiful sport. I've learnt a lot from this video.
Thank you so much for such a great video. I really enjoyed the part about your right finger following the target. And especially keeping your head level upon mounting. I'll keep these tips in mind when I go to the shooting range next week.
just wanted to say best video i have watched explaining all this. new to clay shooting and this really helped me setup my shotgun..
I found that most guns don't fit me well. Need to put my jaw to the stock on some of them - so bad, but I adapt well with rifles and static targets. For trap and skeet on the other hand, I'll need a better gun that fits. Thanks for your advice :)
Just found your video on gun fit and I appreciate the frank and direct presentation. I just bought a used Fabarm XLR5 Velocity and am still learning on it. My grandson is doing well on my Franchi Instinct SL. As we sort out the fit and comfort for each of us, I will be reminded of your video.
Thank you.
Very good video ! I'm new to sporting clay's and there's a lot of great info here. Thank you !
very informative, but one safety point (esp. for youtube), show us that it is unloaded, as we don't know that it is {lore is to assume that it is, UNLESS proven otherwise}; so a quick look for us down the breech, or a "jag" or other object in there to show us no cartridge is in it, then you can fling it around, and we don't mind, as we know the neighbours dog and cat are safe 🙂.
Gun fit for women! Love it - the men just don't get it. Hope you are back out there crushing clays!
Great video, thank you for passing on your knowledge
By far the best explanation I’ve seen. Great job. This helps a lot.
I work with this lady and I never knew she was into her shooting. We've talked other outdoor stuff but never shooting.
I was told don’t have your elbow out and instead have it tucked close to your body. Is that proper ?
An excellent explanation. One of the best videos I have seen so far. I'm always on the lookout for the next video. Please continue
Blink twice if youre being held captive
Thank you thank you wow that was awesome I’m just getting my first trap gun and this was so helpful.
Best I’ve seen on fitting! All fact no baloney. Thank you mam!
Well done you, such a clear and informative presentation that all shooters will understand.
Very nice tutorial. One thing that can help enormously to the fit is to find a gun with a slight 'cast off' in it's stock for a right hander or a 'cast on' stock for a left hander. Even some relatively cheap shotguns are made this way from the factory i.e. Berettas.
WHAT A GREAT GREAT VIDEO ON ALL THE INFO NEEDED FOR GUN FIT BEFORE YOU GET TO THE RANGE, WELL DONE
Very Informative, thank you!
Hello Rural Whip, very nice and understandable video. I’m looking forward for your next one.
I drive with my left hand point an index finger
100's of thousands of cartridges through a shot gun would usually require a rebuild...no?
Funnily enough, I had my gun rebuilt in the last 6 months as it was starting to fall apart when I shot! Good job done and reasonable price by UK Gun Repairs 😊 I’ve owned my gun, from new for over 20 years so yes, it’s had a lot of cartridges though, it had become incredibly loose and needed a new top leaver too. Embarrassingly I’d also got a choke stuck in it, so that also was drilled out and replaced. The gun is back like new, just a bit too tight now, need to put some more cartridges through it to loosen it up 😂😂
THIS is the best vid. i have seen so far.I hope some of these other instructors and game shooters are watching.
Yes! 👍
A very informative and well presented video to watch and will be very helpful for a lot of shooters.
Interesting point about the trigger finger pointing at the point of aim. That's reminiscent of the thumbs forwards pistol grip with thumbs basically aiming at the target.
Great info on gun fit, thank you, brilliant :-)
Found your video and first I thought… “who’s this…”?
So glad I found this VERY informative video. So much information in a short video. Thank you SO MUCH….!!
What a wonderful video. Very useful information. Thank you for sharing...
Hullo.I am mighty impressed to c this video.I have gone through number of videos but this has clarified 99 percent of my questions on shot gun stocks.I would love to c more videos on related subject like skeet,trap and game guns by this impressive speaker.Stay blessed & Thank you.
Thank you for this clear explanation, I sure it will improve my results!
Great explanation with allowance for women shooter, would love to see you return and repeat the same video with how any of your insights may have developed.
You should be concerned about your stuck choke and get it sorted as soon as possible, I have removed several stuck chokes only to discover very badly pitted barrels which could render the gun out of proof !
Michael. I think you will find she has a few guns to chose from, this is like an old slipper you feel comfortable in and never get rid of.
I've been around a long time and contend that shooters today very often mount guns with stocks that are far too straight. With the butt in their delto-pectoral groove (if they do manage to seat it there), they have to contort themselves to get their heads down, often abusing their cheeks. Shooters should at least try guns from the early part of the last century when the drops at heel and comb were greater than seen today. A more comfortable stance will result and the gun will be more likely to point where you're actually looking. This is especially true of SXS doubles that I prefer. High walled O/U guns could tolerate straighter stocks but the coveted low profile actions less so. Anyhow, one old guy's opinion (and experience).
Very well done. Thanks!
Very clear and informative! I have had shoulder cuff problems for two years now, but also want a 12 gauge shotgun. My surgery was 7 weeks ago, so I will have to wait a few more months until I can shoot one. Currently I am trying to learn as much as possible about shotguns so I can make an educated decision when the time arrives. Thank you for the video!
I NOTICED THAT HE SHOULDER'S THE SHOTGUN ON HIS CHEST AND NOT ON HIS SHOULDER. IF HE SHOULDERED ON HIS SHOULDER HE WOULD NOT NEED THE EXTRA LENGTH OF PULL THAT HE RECOMMENDS AND WOULD PROBABLY DO VERY WELL WITH A STANDARD L OF PULL. ALSO, TRY TO SHOOT THE SHORTEST LENGTH OF PULL THAT KEEPS YOUR THUMB FROM HITTING YOUR NOSE. THANK YOU.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Just started into shotguns. Most informative! Now I have a true idea as to how a gun should fit instead of how 'cowboy' I can look. Just subbed, excellent presentation.👍👍😎
Excellent vid. Informative and well explained.
I would liked to have seen a demonstration of mounting the gun from the gun down position into the shooting position all in one movement then turning and pointing the gun at the camera to show the eye position looking down the rib. A one pound coin about 2" forward of the top chamber seems to give the best view down the rib for the bead floating above the coin with the head in the correct position. As a general rule a 3 finger gap between the nose and the thumb is a good guide to head position. A lot of beginners try to cock their head over the stock instead of resting the cheek into the comb sometimes this is caused by them trying to line up their cross dominant eye with the rib. that's why its always best to do a eye dominance test first but if the gun don't fit in the first place the whole thing becomes problematic . I would not expect someone else's suit to fit me so why would their gun ? good vid!!
thank you
A proper formidable woman. Her husband is fortunate
Thanks for video madam
Very useful info :) would love to see more vids!
LOL - some men aren’t built Ike men...
I’m 53yo and starting shooting with my son. Great video - thank you.
Best explanation of gunfit on TH-cam….really informative. I’m a man by the way and soon to buy my first shotgun so this really helps.
“Keep your head straight. It is what it is”.Thank you for your masterful explanations.
Amazing content! I’m so glad I found your channel.
I started shooting when I retired 7 years ago, it’s only now that I do all of these things instinctively😊
What is the absence? thanks
Such a well made video, your explanations and hands on were only minimized by your beauty and charming deminure, I Thank You lady.
With love from Texas - you should do more videos on shooting sports! What a delight and very nicely done. Would love to hear what you say about the different shotgun disciplines and your personal recommendations.
Well done! Great presentation.
It was a great tutorial! ....... (until the mention of "two euros" 😂).
About to get my gun fit to me and this was so helpful. Thank u
Thank you so much for uploading this immensely helpful video. I am indebted to you.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I gun fit myself. How? I base it on the amount of targets I break compared to the ones I miss.
Very good explaination on fitting the right gun to our personal frame. Thanks
Wow, the best video on fitting that I've seen. Thanks for posting.
😂😂😂 i got 20gage, my logic was that it'll kick less only to find out otherwise
I don't like wearing a fleecy jumper for shooting either.
Very informative 👍
Really great job of explanation. Thanks.
Thanks 🙏 great illustrations God Bless You
8:23
Absolute top notch step by step explanation. One of a kind. Thank you so much
This was very helpful and save for future reference, thank you!
excellent
I wish the people running (most of) the gun shops in Sweden knew half as much about gun fit than what was covered in this video alone.
What a plaster ? 12 bore?
Plaster = band-aid .. 12 bore = 12 gauge ..
This is superb. Quite complete and thorough.
Very simple and detailed explanation. Thanks a lot.
Rural whip is a name to challenge the English language.
Thank you I’m learning quite a lot!
At 08:50 she talks about keeping the head straight and that is ofcourse totally true, however there is a reason that people tilt their heads and that is the gun not fitting them properly in the first place. Guns are made such that most people have to crouch their shoulders upwards and their necks forwards and downwards to get the eyes down onto the rib line of sight. I had this issue myself not even knowing for two years, until I tried a high rib which totally made the gun fit me - not the other way around. With a high rib this lady and many others with her would not have to crouch and compress her upper body onto the gun, but rather it would allow her to shoot in an perfectly relaxed upper body position as well as increase her field of view onto the targets. A high rib totally changed my shooting for the better and I will never go back having tried it for a few weeks. I Skeet this becomes even more important than in Trap because you will eliminate much unnecssary body movement during mounting, wich allows for less body coordination and complexity of movement while trying to brake the first target.
unfortunately a lot of shooters tend to HUNCH their shoulders as they mount the gun and don't even know they are doing it until its pointed out to them and their not always beginners. The shoulders should always be down and relaxed for a fluid mount and swing. What you describe is a fundamentally bad mount. I would recommend finding a good experienced instructor and booking some hands on lessons