VIDEO: How Fast Can You Shoot a Shotgun?

[PTMCCAIN]

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Subtlety is not my strong suit.

 

[LJ-MosinFreak-Buck]

PTMCCAIN: While I commend you for being a fast shot, fast on the trigger, and faster than I will ever be (I've watched the video you posted here, and another on your Glock, though I forget which model). Your shot successions impress me, but I myself would ask that you post your times.

I know you're worried about being called a liar and a cheat, but this is The High Road, not YouTube, where these accusations began, as you said in another YouTube video you posted about your M4. Have some faith in us, good sir.

 

[HankB]

I have a Benelli M1S90, and the few times I've tried it for speed, I never felt the limiting factor was the gun's cycle time, it was my trigger finger.

I've seen John Satterwhite exhibitions, and as near as my Timex could tell, he was shooting and hitting eight hand-thrown clay pigeons in no more than 2 seconds with an M1S90; would've loved to have a shot timer with me. Bet the time would've been shorter if he wasn't trying to hit stuff.

(BTW, the most I've ever done on hand-thrown pigeons is five. And I wasn't successful on every attempt.)

I used to be able to get 5 shots through a stock 870 quicker than most guys could get 5 through an 1100, but it wasn't easy and I'm sure I've lost a step since then.

I've mostly shot O/U & SxS shotguns, and have never owned a pump, so that sounds pretty good to me. I'll note that the few times I've shot a buddy's 1100 the action just seemed to cycle s-l-o-w-l-y . . . but still a lot faster than I would cycle a pump.

 

[PTMCCAIN]

"PTMCCAIN: While I commend you for being a fast shot, fast on the trigger, and faster than I will ever be (I've watched the video you posted here, and another on your Glock, though I forget which model). Your shot successions impress me, but I myself would ask that you post your times. "

I do not own a shot timer, so the best I can suggest to you, or anyone who cares to do it, is to grab an online timer, open up two windows on your computer, and time it that way. I look for the second I see my finger pull the trigger and time until the last trigger pull. I'm not trying to be argumentative, this is the only way I can time it. As far as I can tell, the eight shots come spitting out in just a bit over 1 second, around 1.1, I did this several times and that was the average I kept coming up with. Again, all I'm trying to demonstrate is not how fast *I* am, but how fast the cycle rate on a Benelli M4.

"Pretty darn fast" is about as scientific as I can get.

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[Pete D.]

Fast

the eight shots come spitting out in just a bit over 1 second, around 1.1, I did this several times and that was the average I kept coming up with.

A bit slow maybe, when I timed it , twice, both times were eight tenths of a second. I am not sure that I could move my trigger finger that quickly.
Pete

 

[PTMCCAIN]

Interesting, yup, that's "pretty darn fast."

Again, it's not about me, but about the Benelli ARGO system.

 

[Drail]

That boy is diddlin' that trigger.

 

[Youngster]

Hmmm, I'd been led to believe that the M4 wasn't particularily fast cycling by recent semi shotgun standards, that doesn't appear to be the case!

 

[Certaindeaf]

That booger hook is a blur!

I've also heard folk say that the M1-S90 is slow for some reason. I've had one for around 25? years and say what? Two shots can sound as one easy.

 

[PTMCCAIN]

"Pretty darn fast."

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