Thread: Can Anyone Answer This?

This is not meant to be political, however I'm sure a lot of you have seen the picture of Obama skeet shooting. Can anybody tell me what that puff of smoke coming out of the side of the barrel is? I've never seen anything like it. And no one on television has explained it. Anybody?

Could it be coming out the top, and designed to counteract barrel rise during firing? This was what they told us the compensators on M4's were for anyhow. So, I guess my answer is more of a guess/question too. Sorry.

Ported barrel? That would be my guess, though it does look kind of far back compared to what I have seen. (Note: I know VERY little about shotguns.)

A ported barrel was my first thought also that that would be coming up from the top.

Almost looks like he is shooting an SKB comp skeet gun that is ported SKB Shotguns: Skeet Models .

Bob

Shotguns with screw in chokes are ported farther back..

HOWEVER his hold "Mount" is the dead giveaway for an inexperienced shooter, look at how the buttpad is sitting, he is a novice and obviously nobody explained how to not get a bruised shoulder... His actual wording also was a dead giveaway for a Non-Shooter..

A shooter says

We shoot Skeet
We shoot Trap
We shoot Clays

We do not say "We do Skeet Shooting" it is the same as a non-hunter asking you when you come out of the woods "Did you catch anything" drives me nuts like any other sport there any certain terms and vernacular that define the sport and the people that participate in it...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Shotguns with screw in chokes are ported farther back..

HOWEVER his hold "Mount" is the dead giveaway for an inexperienced shooter, look at how the buttpad is sitting, he is a novice and obviously nobody explained how to not get a bruised shoulder... His actual wording also was a dead giveaway for a Non-Shooter..

A shooter says

We shoot Skeet
We shoot Trap
We shoot Clays

We do not say "We do Skeet Shooting" it is the same as a non-hunter asking you when you come out of the woods "Did you catch anything" drives me nuts like any other sport there any certain terms that define the sport...

Glenn, I couldn't agree with you more. However, as I said, this is not a political comment at all even though I think that pictures Photoshoped, but that puff of smoke coming out of the side is like nothing I've ever seen or anybody. I've talked to has ever seen choke or no choke. I have no idea what that can be and it seems nobody else does either. As far as the way he's mounting the gun to his shoulder,My friends and I would most likely let him shoot one off just for a laugh before correcting the mistakes,And Bob, as for that shotgun you mentioned,it has multable ports on the side so you would'nt see a single puff like that anyway.IMHO

The puff of smoke really didn't look that odd to me, look at the Shotgun BobH linked if the pic was taken on the "rise" it could very well look that far back..

Originally Posted by gssixgun

The puff of smoke really didn't look odd to me, look at the Shotgun BobH linked if the pic was taken on the rise it could very well look that far back

Glen, I'll bow to your expertise on that,but take a good look at that picture,it's a perfect cone of smoke comming from the right side of the front of the barrel,just seem very odd to me............

According to the real experts I shoot trap with on Sundays they tagged the Shotgun as a Browning Citori way before it was officially realeased as being one...

Browning Firearms Finder


There are some oddities that we all noted at the range

One Choke, where is the bottom barrel choke????
Where is the left side smoke puff???
The pic is sooooo good that you can see the ports yet the gun should be moving from recoil???
He also doesn't seem to have reacted at all from the recoil????

Just some things a bunch of guys sitting down between rounds at the range came up with