VR Duck Hunter Review

Hi, Thought I'd write a quick review and share it.
I started shooting Clays about 2 1/2 years ago. My initial scores were pretty dismall, 9/50 I believe was my first score. Since then I have improved (recently shot 75/100). A lot of this improvement has been courtesy of the coaching, banter and laughter from my friends with whom I shoot (they know who they are!) but, whilst in a group of 6 I seem to be “Mr Average”, like any sportsman I want to do better.
I know practice makes perfect, but it’s expensive (oh - and I have a fulltime job with at least 2 hours commuting) so when I saw a post on the Clay Pigeon Shooting (UK) facebook group it got me thinking. The post was by Oliver Thomas who posted “How would people recommend practising shooting without a shotgun? Because at boarding school”
One of the many responses was from Chris Grundy to replied “yeah can shoot as much as you want in VR. You would want a VR gunstock of some kind, you can get very basic cheap ones, but a proper one like Mega VR Duck Hunter one makes it very realistic in vr.”
So later that week I invested in a Meta Quest 2 (thankfully with the upcoming release of the Quest 3 this proved to be cheaper than I had expected). I shopped around and found a BNIB one for a decent price, the delivery was shown as 7-10 days but it arrived in 6! I also looked at the Real Stock Pro and the Mega VR Duck Hunter as these had the best reviews. I went for the Mega VR Duck Hunter simply because it looked the most likely (with all its adjustments) to replicate my own gun of choice (Browning 525 Sporter). The delivery time was estimates 4-7 Days (you have to allow for the 3D printing times). After nearly 10 I still hadn’t received it, so I contacted them via the online whats app chat function - so pleased I did as well! I can’t fault these chaps for customer service 😊
My weapon of choice finally turned up and I assembled it (the instructions have since been updated). I put my real shotgun on a table and adjusted the Mega VR Duck Hunter so that the Recoil pad and the Trigger all lined up.
I then braved the VR world of Clay Hunt. Clay Hunt is a fantastic, real as it gets, VR Clay Shooting experience. I would say though to anyone else wanting to make this journey it is well worth while spending time to setup your Mega VR Duck Hunter with Clay Hunt properly - you will get so much more out of it if you calibrate everything (I found the Tin Cans really useful during the calibration).
The Mega Duck Hunter is brilliant - I have been using it for a couple of weeks now (when I can prise it out of my daughter’s hands - she also shoots with me). I now just need to find more time to practice but still seem to manage 100-200 shots a week. I know that in 5-6 weeks I’ve made my money back on going to the Range 😊
I have since acquired the Weight Package, which as you would expect is fully customisable. In this case I knew my gun weighed 3.463Kg and the Mega VR Duck Hunter is 2.602Kg, so I needed to add weight. I calculated the weight of the front and rear weight cases (.082Kg and 0.109Kg) and worked out I needed 0.67Kg to add. This turned out to be 42 weights (with two of them as extras in the front to compensate for the Case difference). Since then I have shot with in VR and found it to be even more realistic than before - only downside being I need to rest in between more often (just as you would waking from Stand to Stand) otherwise my arms start to feel it.
All in all, I believe I have made a very wise investment, and look forward to beating my colleagues a lot more often (but not too much - life would soon get dull and boring!)

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Hi Dale. Thanks for your review. Any updates on your new scores? I mean, have you noticed any real-life improvements since you started training using the weights package? Regards - Alejandro.