Sounds like you need to practice.


Sounds like you've never tried target practice from the deck of a vessel
in
any but the calmest seas.


Doug Dotson wrote:
Wrong.


I have... including a .50BMG from a tripod welded to the deck... now
*that* was fun... but that particular vessel had no reason to fear pirates!

At one point, I & some friends regularly held skeet shooting off the
stern of one of my father's boats. It was the safest place to go & shoot.

However, shotguns are an entirely different can-o-worms than even a
modest powered rifle. Rifle bullets will skip a long long way over
water... it has occured that a man test-firing a hunting rifle in
Connecticut killed a girl on a beach in Long Island.

Regards
Doug King