I think it's the people, not the sport/competition/game they prefer.
I mean I'll admit I've shot my share of scatterloads...25k a year easy.
Some of the most hard-headed bunch on AWB and such are the scatterbore folks " well they won't be after my O/U..."
Gotta admit tho' ... we DO "rationalize" well.
-Can't miss with all them pellets.
-Missed because of all them pellets
-Forgot the pellets in the last batch I reloaded.
-Heck of lot easier to see and pick up big red hulls than brass
-You try hitting a moving target
-I can do it 25 times in a row and in 8 different positions [top that]
-On a good day I can do it 100 times in a row in 8 different positions [ top that again I say]
-We get to shoot red, yellow, lavender, green, purple, blue...etc.
-We get to shoot plastic or paper [kinda like the grocery store]
-We can use tubes in our bbls...try that with an '06
-We get to lose choke tubes and wrenches
-We can have a coin and a bore...granted it only proves we have a coin and a bore, but a rifle shooter looks plain stupid doing this.
-A busted bbl off a single shot makes a better cheater bar.
-We get a cool thingie to press that throws birds at the push of a button.
-We get to trip over the cord too.
-We shoot at pattern boards
-Pattern boards with only a dot
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THEN we draw a circle...
-We therefore have no life, but we can count and play with sharpies.
-Bringing home 20k hulls takes up more room that 20K 22lr bullets
-Wives can yell louder because of above
-One can stuff more C notes in the bbl of 12 bore than a '06 bore
-No, I won't tell how I know this
-"Bought a new shotgun dear?...good for you".
-No C notes in 12 bore anymore...but gotta new SG in the safe
-We can make a bigger mess when we spill shot
Its the people not the sport...