subject: Choosing The Best Clay Shooting Vests [print this page] You can easily be overwhelmed by the substantial range of shooting clothing and accessories available these days. Its good to have choices available because you will be shooting across a range of environments with vastly differing weather conditions. Choosing clothing such as the best clay shooting vests and the most effective footwear might be a decision dictated by your budget, but you will need to feel your best to be able to perform at your highest level.
Once you have dealt with all your safety issues - ear defenders, shooting glasses and shooting hat - you can concentrate on making yourself comfortable and relaxed to match the surroundings and the conditions.
Choosing from a selection of the best clay shooting vests will help you achieve two main targets.
One, you need to stay warm and dry otherwise your performance will be affected. If you feel cold and wet, you will quickly move to the zone of being uncomfortable. This lowers your concentration and your previously relaxed muscles will stiffen up causing you problems when you need to be stress-free to shoot. Feeling wet and cold will lead to an element of tiredness, which can lead to underperformance.
Two, by choosing from among the best clay shooting vests, you will be able to partly deal with the recoil from your gun. If you don't deal in advance with the recoil from your shooting weapon, you will quickly suffer from tenderness in the areas where the gun recoil is against your body.
What to look for in a shooting vest
Even if you have to cut corners to meet your budget elsewhere, make sure you choose the best quality shooting vest you can afford. At the shoulders, you will have padded patches in your vest. You should note that being left or right-handed doesn't make any difference these days because most vests have similar patches on both shoulders.
Recoil isn't prevented by the shoulder patches; the extra layers provide much-needed shooting comfort between your body and the gun butt. Every time you fire a cartridge the gun butt is against your body. The nonslip patches go a long way to prevent tender points prevailing, which would otherwise cause you discomfort with each shot.
Another advantage of choosing among the best clay shooting vests, is that shoulder patches provide a comfortable gun mount which helps prevent the stock slipping when you are firing, which of course helps your accuracy.
Clay shooting vests often allow replaceable slip-in recoil pads so they can be exchanged before they wear out.
The majority of people choose the sleeveless or cloth version, but many also choose the sleeveless vest made from an extremely lightweight material. These have a meshed back to provide better comfort of those very hot days. For the very cold and wet days you can choose a style that has sleeves with the whole best made of wind and waterproof material.
You may well choose a vest is one size bigger than you would expect because you might need to wear an extra layer of clothing to keep warm and maybe dry.
When you are looking at choosing the best clay shooting vests on offer, try your gun for size to make sure everything fits and feels why you need it to be. You should also make sure that the pockets are the right size to hold a number of cultures you require for your shoot. You don't carry too much weight, but you do want to make your sport as easy as you can.
