Category Archives: Technoid’s Technical Tracts

The Technoid’s musing on shotgun related issues.

Technoid Counts Holes…

Posted on April 16, 2019 by bcbuck

Gaussian distributions, Bernoulli venturi effects, sectional density, random sampling, sines, cosines? Yuk! What does all that junk have to do with going out to “whack dem birdies”? The bird flies. You point the gun. You pull the trigger. If the … Continue reading →

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The Technoid Has A Crush…

Posted on January 13, 2017 by bcbuck

Some time ago I evaluated an experimental shot crusher from Stuart Crane at Clay Shooting Magazine in the UK. The crusher is basically a heavy steel dowel centered in a guide tube over a steel plate. The dowel is raised … Continue reading →

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The Technoid Takes Gauss…

Posted on December 29, 2016 by bcbuck

Your new Holland and Holland sporting clays gun was specially choked in England by a famed necromancer of that black art. You paid extra, but you got the best. You are certain that its patterns will be superior to the … Continue reading →

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More Summer Kick

Posted on May 12, 2015 by bcbuck

The Technoid Says It’s Too Darn Hot….. It is a fact- shells kick more in summer. Back in his salad days, the Technoid ran across a few cases of International Skeet shells from Poland marketed by the notorious, but aptly … Continue reading →

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Stocks

Posted on December 29, 2014 by bcbuck

The Technoid Takes Stock….. Many shooters consider a gun fitting session to be an extravagant luxury, something akin to gold inlays and such. ‘Taint so. If your gun does not fit, it is your shooting ability, not the shot, that … Continue reading →

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Shot

Posted on December 15, 2014 by bcbuck

The Technoid Gets Shot… The most important single ingredient in a good shotgun pattern is high quality shot. No matter what modern refinements the shotgun and ammunition manufacturers come up with, high quality shot has more to do with reducing … Continue reading →

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Sub-Gauge Sporting Guns

Posted on December 11, 2014 by bcbuck

The Technoid Examines Sub-Gauge Sporting Guns….. The Technoid has not been so excited since he got sunburned watching his first solar calculator recharge. Sub-gauge sporting guns offer an entirely new field of experimentation! Nothing out there is perfectly suited. Any … Continue reading →

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Technoid Counts Holes…

Posted on May 16, 2014 by bcbuck

Gaussian distributions, Bernoulli venturi effects, sectional density, random sampling, sines, cosines? Yuk! What does all that junk have to do with going out to “whack dem birdies”? The bird flies. You point the gun. You pull the trigger. If the … Continue reading →

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The Technoid Takes Gas…..

Posted on May 15, 2014 by bcbuck

Gas guns that is. Sporting clays both here and abroad is a game dominated by the over and under style shotgun. Among many shooters in the Northeast it is usually one of the many Browning Citori or Beretta O/U models. … Continue reading →

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The Technoidal Notebook…

Posted on May 14, 2014 by bcbuck

You do keep a shooting log, don’t you? In the first century A.D. one Marcus Fabius Quintilius opined that a liar should have a good memory. Old M.F. should have added that if he did not have a good memory, … Continue reading →

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