Shooting in Turn I was in a shoot-off with several others. The referee called our names and I was second from the last. I knew the person that was last but not the shooter before me. There were two people standing next to me, and I asked the one I didn't know if he was up. He shook his head, no. I made the assumption that he was just a spectator and wasn't the shooter before me, that perhaps the shooter before me decided to skip the shoot-off. This was my mistake: I should have asked the referee who was next, but instead I shot my pair. The referee then stopped me as I was … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #49: Shooting Twice At the Same Target
Shooting Twice At the Same Target I've been helping a gentleman learn to shoot skeet. He's shot trap and some sporting clays and recently started shooting skeet, and he's interested in shooting registered skeet. I've worked with him once or twice a week for the last month, and he's picking the game up pretty fast, but today he shot twice at the same target. I had to explain to him that this is something that would get him removed from an event as it's a safety violation. If you get into the habit of shooting twice at the same target during practice, chances are you may … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #54: Illness
Illness A friend of mine from another state called me recently and told me that he had been diagnosed with diabetes. He also told me that he thought that his recent decline in shooting seemed to be caused by this illness. He was having a problem with his eyes. They had been gradually getting worse over the last year. He wasn't seeing leads the same as he used to. He asked me what I would advise a shooter whose eye-dominance may have changed. He had always been a right-eyed, right-handed shooter and was 'AA' or 'AAA' in the four guns. This shooter is in his late 50s, had shot … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #52: Temper Tantrum
Temper Tantrum About a week ago, I was playing golf with a senior scramble group. I am not a very good golfer, but with a scramble sometimes it's not too noticeable. The teams are drawn by getting an 'A'-class golfer to draw a team made up of himself and the three lower classes (B, C and D). The team I was assigned to had the top, or close-to-the-top, player in the group as our team leader. He is frequently on the winning team. On the first hole, our team leader hit a great drive and, this being a scramble, we all played from his ball's location. After the rest of us had hit, … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #48: Good Pulls, Bad Pulls
Good Pulls, Bad Pulls Recently at a local shoot, there were a couple of fields that had "wireless pickles." I shot on one of the fields and perceived no difference in the quality of the pulls, but another shooter on a later squad felt that he was getting "slow pulls." His first round was straight, but he still didn't like the wireless model. The referee changed to the wired pickle for the second and subsequent rounds, and the squad finished without problems. After my hint regarding referees, I had a couple of readers send me emails commenting on the article. One of them was from … [Read more...]
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