[fabsroman]

You can believe whatever Skeet wants to tell you, but I was really working hard to keep up with him. Plus, he was practically breaking them as soon as they showed themselves. Meanwhile, I was having to track the heck out of them. Of course, Skeet got me once when he "coached" me to take them early. That advice ended up with "Loss" "Loss", and wouldn't you know it, he ended up beating me by two or three birds while he was holding back. All the time, making me think that I could possibly beat him if I didn't take his advice. Talk about a slick willy. Oh yeah, now I remember some additional coaching, "Take the right bird first." That resulted in another "Loss."

So, now he has me thinking I might actually be able to shoot as well as him if I just shoot like I normally do, but of course, he can probably shoot 10 targets better than he did. Meanwhile, he has only been the Maryland State skeet champion umpteen times.

I think Skeet is trying to retire off of shooting with me.

As far as the stocks on the Berettas being different than the other guns, I think Skeet is dead on. When I am not wearing a hunting coat, the LOP of the Benelli and Brownings seems a lot less than the Berettas, but I can still mount the Berettas without a problem, unless I am wearing a hunting jacket and then it feels weird. I mounted a guy's Extrema a couple of years ago while out goose hunting and the LOP felt really long. As far as the thickness of the stocks is concerned, I guess you can just take off the butt pads, put them against each other, and see which ones protrude beyond the other. I know Beretta makes a regular and a small pad for their guns. My target guns take the larger pad and my Beretta 3901 takes the smaller one. I think the thicker stocks are a way that Beretta adds weight to their target guns to reduce recoil, but that is only my opinion.