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Proper Gun Fit, LLC Less Pain, More Gain
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Bob Schlatterbeck Clarkston Michigan 248/766-1108 e-mail: Info@ProperGunFit.com website: www.ProperGunFit.com |
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ADVANTAGES OF A PROPER GUN
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The “more fun” part of shooting comes from breaking more targets, bagging more game with fewer shots, and improving your scores at the club. The “less pain” is accomplished by reducing the felt recoil and eliminating the bruises on your shoulder or cheek. In both of these cases, the main contributor to reducing the pain and increasing fun is having a shotgun stock properly fitted to you. You wouldn’t buy a car without taking it for a test drive; but we continue to purchase shotguns not knowing if it fits us properly. We go through the motions of mounting the gun in the store, looking down the barrel to see if the bead lines up and, if it feels comfortable, we buy it. The next step is taking the shotgun to the nearest range and start shooting. After a while we come to realize that our scores have not improved like we thought they would with the new shotgun. The reason for this is that the shotgun stock dimensions do not fit you properly. The gun manufacturer who built your shotgun used “standard” stock dimensions intended to fit the “average” male person. Now if we were all “standard” and “average” we would have no problems in shooting the shotgun that the manufacture has built for us. But we all know that each person’s physical characteristics are different in some way. This is especially true for women and children shotgun shooters. In order to overcome the one-size-fits-all stock problems, we have taught ourselves to conform to the manufacture’s stock dimensions by contorting our bodies in all sorts of ways. Do the things we do to conform to the “standard” stocks work? In some cases the answer is yes, but it does not allow us to become a consistent shooter. If you are constantly adjusting and re-adjusting your head location before each shot, there is not only a lot of energy lost but you have provided a greater opportunity to make a mistake. A one degree aiming error will result in the pattern of the shot to be 13 inches off at 20 yards. Wouldn’t it be better if you could use that wasted energy to focus on the target rather than the position of our head? By now you are asking yourself, “What can be done to eliminate or minimize these problems and help me become a better shooter?” The answer to this question is going to someone who specializes in custom fitting the stock to you. This person should not only be knowledgeable about shooting and hunting sports, but have and know how to use the necessary equipment.
The nine different measurements that can be adjusted are:
So far we have been gathering information on the computer using the shooter’s own gun. Now we can analyze this information and translate it into the adjustments of the stock of the Try-Fit gun. Now the shooter will use the adjusted Try-Fit gun to shoot at the same computer generated moving targets. Adjustment of the Try-Fit gun will be made until the shooter is able to be comfortable with the shotgun and breaking targets. Once the shooter is showing improvement in consistently hitting moving targets, a comparison of the Try-Fit gun’s measurements and the shooter’s gun measurements is made. From the measurement comparison, we are able to determine what changes are needed on the shooter’s stock so less pain and better shooting can be obtained. Once the shooter has completed the shooting and the measurement segments, they will be able to mount the shotgun with their eyes closed. When they open their eyes, they will be looking down the barrel sight plane exactly in the proper place. No matter how many times you try this activity, the same sight plane will come because now the stock fits the shooter. The information that was gathered using the measuring equipment, the Try-Fit gun and the DryFire Simulator all come together to ensure that your shooting sport will be “more fun” and “less painful” when you return to your club or are hunting with your buddies, and exhibit your new-found improvements and skills ____________________ To learn more about how you can improve and make shooting sports more enjoyable and less painful, contact Bob at 248/766-1108 or Email Info@ProperGunFit.com |
"SSSF"
Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation
"SCTP"
Scholastic Clay Target Program
The measuring equipment is able to collect
information on the nine different dimensions on the stock.
A Try-Fit gun is a gun which is
built so the nine stock dimensions can be changed to fit the
shooter’s physical characteristics. The Try-Fit gun can be
adjusted to fit your physical characteristics; and from the
information obtained from the Try-Fit gun, an assessment can be
made on what changes are needed to the shooters gun. 
The DryFire Target Simulator
is used to evaluate the shooters ability to break moving
targets. The simulator uses a computer to generate a moving
target and record the location of the shot density pattern to
the clay target location at the time of the shot. This is
accomplished by installing a laser in the muzzle end of the
shooter's gun which generates a laser beam at the computer
generated target. Once the laser shot is made the computer will
show if the target was hit or missed, the location of the
pattern density, whether the shooter was in front or behind of
the target, high or low on the target and the distance the shot
pattern was from the shooter.