-
Recent Posts
- Short History of Boss & Co. June 29, 2022
- Churchill…Where It Works…Where It Doesn’t June 28, 2022
- Supressed Shotgun June 27, 2022
- Return To High Bird Paradise June 25, 2022
- Browning Maxus II June 24, 2022
- Old Beretta Semi-Autos June 23, 2022
- Browning Liberty Light June 22, 2022
- Shooting Steel Ammo June 21, 2022
- Snap Caps Or Not? | Shotgun Report® June 17, 2022
- Best 410 Chokes For Game | Shotgun Report® June 16, 2022
Recent Comments
- Franklin Pierce on Old Beretta Semi-Autos
- blackwellopt on Old Beretta Semi-Autos
- blackwellopt on Shooting Steel Ammo
- Bill E. on Shooting Steel Ammo
- Castnblast on Ithaca Perazzis
- Hoyden on Fabarm L4S Sporting
- Hoyden on Beretta A400 Xcel Sporting
- Toby G on Low Pressure, Low Recoil?
- Roland Leong on Barrel Convergence Woes
- Peter Rose on Barrel Convergence Woes
Categories
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: Technoid’s Technical Tracts
Technoid Counts Holes…
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
Posted in Technoid's Technical Tracts
Leave a comment
The Technoid Has A Crush…
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
Posted in Technoid's Technical Tracts
1 Comment
The Technoid Takes Gauss…
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
Posted in Technoid's Technical Tracts
1 Comment
More Summer Kick
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
Stocks
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
Shot
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
Sub-Gauge Sporting Guns
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
Technoid Counts Holes…
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
Posted in Technoid's Technical Tracts
1 Comment
The Technoid Takes Gas…..
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
The Technoidal Notebook…
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
Posted in Technoid's Technical Tracts
Leave a comment