RE: New toy, H&R Ultra Slug
Sounds like a bunch of crap to me, I don't care who wrote it. I have read lots of missleading and flat out wrong stuff in magazines and the such. I have not shot a rifle yet be it centerfire, rimfire, muzzle loader or slug gun that defied physics and required a different shooting style. Now shooting shot at a moving target is a bit different and requires a different technique.
I see none of the problems they list shooting any gun the way I was trained to shoot. While this is the first rifled slug gun I have owned it is by far the first I have shot or helped someone set up. It does not matter what speed the bullet is traveling, the muzzle flips after the bullet leaves the barrel, so it can not impart anything onto the accuracy of it. Now barrel flex can, but that is a matter of finding the correct load for the barrel. You are much better off shooting relaxed and executing proper follow thru after the shot. If you are trying to hold onto or pull the gun you will subconciously do something before the shot and it can effect your shot. And it is very hard to repeat it shot after shot. In your theory if you did not have consistant grip pressure from shot to shot your accuracy would suffer and the impact points would change. Again, it is the same with archery, but to a larger degree. This is why a suprise release or a good trigger on a gun is so much more accurate. It is also why target shooters dry fire so often. You should not anticipate the shot, it should just happen.
If what you stated was true then none of the rifles I have owned or my friends weapons would shoot worth a darn or be consistant. Well I can assure you that is not the case at all. You can promote as much theory as you want on the subject, but in the real world that just isn't the case. And from what I can see Tar Hunt is just a waste of money. There are slug guns right off the shelf that can shoot just as well with the right ammo, a 200 dollar H&R being one of them. My guess would be if you have trouble with inconsitant shooting you either need to work on your load some, your rifle has a problem, or you just can't shoot consistantly.
I can't begin to tell you the amount of subsonic weapons I have fired and none of them required a different shooting technique.
If you don't agree with me that is fine, it is your perogitive. However you will not convince me that I am wrong, so don't bother. Recoil does not make a difference and neither does the speed of the projectile as long is it stays stable in flight. I have fired large bore subsonic rifles and pistols as well as high velocity ones very accurately from the bench and off hand, and I only weighed 90 lbs, I only weigh 130 now. I can assure you it does not effect accuracy unless you anticipate it and screw the shot up before you pull the trigger. You should be able to lay a gun in a rest and pull the trigger without touching the rest of the rifle and it should impact in the same place as if you were holding it on sand bags or off the ground, even off hand if you can hold steady enough. If it doesn't then YOU are doing something wrong or you should to see how the weapon is assembled. I haven't seen a weapon yet that would not do it.
There is nothing you can say or link to that will change what I have actually done and witnessed for myself.
Paul