The sport in which you shoot a shotgun makes no difference in how the gun needs to fits you. If your gun fits, it fits. The shape of the comb makes no difference. Think about it. Your cheek touches the stock in one spot. What the monte carlo stock really does is moves the butt down a bit farther in your shoulder pocket in relation to the comb. If you need this because of your body shape you need it for any shotgun game.
I spent a week up in Colorado Springs working with the Olympic shotgun coaches. They will teach proper shotgun shooting technique, and proper gun fit and neither one has anything to do with with particular shotgun sport you're shooting.
I've seen plenty of shooters shooting trap with skeet guns and others shooting skeet with trap guns. As long as the gun fits you, you can shoot any sport with it. I have a Browning XS Skeet with 30in barrels. I've shot skeet, trap, sporting clays, bunker trap, wobble trap, and trap doubles with this gun and it's worked wonderfully for all of these sports. All I do is change choke tubes.
The most important thing about shotgun fit is for the comb to center the eye left/right over the barrels.
Second is for the comb to be at the correct height. Generally it's accepted that the eye is at the correct height if the beads form a figure 8, although the real test is if the gun shoots where you want it to up and down on a pattern board.
Third, the length of pull, it's actually not that hard to shoot a gun that's a little too short or too long as long as the first two fit items are correct, that's why this is the third on the list as far as importance.
Fourth. The butt needs to fit into the shoulder pocket properly. You can move the gun up and down in the pocket so the neck and head are as upright as possible. On a gun without an adjustable butt pad you may end up with only half of the butt pad contacting the shoulder in order to bring the gun up to the shooters face properly. Because of body shape the butt might alsy need to be turned as well.
The head should be upright or with a very slight forward lean. The eyes need to be level. You don't walk with your head tipped to the right (right handed shooter) so don't shoot that way.
All of these adjustments are true for everyone no matter what sport you shoot. The differences between guns marketed for different sports is mostly cosmetic or differences in barrel length although barrel length is really just a shooters preference. There are plenty of shooters using 32in O/U for skeet right now for instance.
You can learn to shoot a shotgun that doesn't fit you just like you can learn to hit targets using bad technique but you are just making it hard on yourself.
The coachs at the OTC have had decades and decades of experience setting up shotguns and teaching shooters. They have broken everything down into the basic, simple steps that work for any shotgun sport.
If you have any questions about your gun take it to a gunfitter and have them work with you. Off the shelf guns are setup to fit the average sized and shaped shooter and if you're unlucky enough to not be averaged sized and shape then you probably need to have your gun adjusted.
I spent a week up in Colorado Springs working with the Olympic shotgun coaches. They will teach proper shotgun shooting technique, and proper gun fit and neither one has anything to do with with particular shotgun sport you're shooting.
I've seen plenty of shooters shooting trap with skeet guns and others shooting skeet with trap guns. As long as the gun fits you, you can shoot any sport with it. I have a Browning XS Skeet with 30in barrels. I've shot skeet, trap, sporting clays, bunker trap, wobble trap, and trap doubles with this gun and it's worked wonderfully for all of these sports. All I do is change choke tubes.
The most important thing about shotgun fit is for the comb to center the eye left/right over the barrels.
Second is for the comb to be at the correct height. Generally it's accepted that the eye is at the correct height if the beads form a figure 8, although the real test is if the gun shoots where you want it to up and down on a pattern board.
Third, the length of pull, it's actually not that hard to shoot a gun that's a little too short or too long as long as the first two fit items are correct, that's why this is the third on the list as far as importance.
Fourth. The butt needs to fit into the shoulder pocket properly. You can move the gun up and down in the pocket so the neck and head are as upright as possible. On a gun without an adjustable butt pad you may end up with only half of the butt pad contacting the shoulder in order to bring the gun up to the shooters face properly. Because of body shape the butt might alsy need to be turned as well.
The head should be upright or with a very slight forward lean. The eyes need to be level. You don't walk with your head tipped to the right (right handed shooter) so don't shoot that way.
All of these adjustments are true for everyone no matter what sport you shoot. The differences between guns marketed for different sports is mostly cosmetic or differences in barrel length although barrel length is really just a shooters preference. There are plenty of shooters using 32in O/U for skeet right now for instance.
You can learn to shoot a shotgun that doesn't fit you just like you can learn to hit targets using bad technique but you are just making it hard on yourself.
The coachs at the OTC have had decades and decades of experience setting up shotguns and teaching shooters. They have broken everything down into the basic, simple steps that work for any shotgun sport.
If you have any questions about your gun take it to a gunfitter and have them work with you. Off the shelf guns are setup to fit the average sized and shaped shooter and if you're unlucky enough to not be averaged sized and shape then you probably need to have your gun adjusted.
