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Originally Posted by Frazod
My Versa Max has very little kick; nothing compared to a standard shotgun. I can shoot it hard all day and feel no ill effects afterward. It's stupid easy to shoot fast and stay on target with it.
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Right, I just meant typical shotguns. Especially the short 'tactical' types or bird guns or whatever. I watched a guy last year that brought a new 'tactical' pump to the range to practice with I guess. It took him about 4 seconds to fire, remember to pump, then find the center of the target and fire again.
He didn't believe me when i told him he was taking too long at first, so I filmed him with my phone and showed him. He asked me to demonstrate how to do it so I reeled off 6 shots in about 3 seconds. But at the time I'd been running the course at the CTC (clay target center) for a few months every year for about 6 years so i was used to running pumps quickly. Plus, I had a good teacher (Fredo ran the CTC for a while and was a clays competitor and local champion).
I explained the fundamentals of running a pump faster as I was taught and he worked on it for the next half hour before his shoulder started getting too sore. But he did get a little faster before he left.
The point being, there's a couple things that have to be mastered with standard shotguns to run them quickly that most people don't even think about when they buy one for HD. The biggest one being felt recoil. That whack to the shoulder is about the same as triggering a .30-06 round.