Tournament Stress How do you deal with tournament stress that causes you to miss easy targets? The answer and solution to this challenge require far more than the space I have, but let me give it a go. First, always take a picture of your scorecard after shooting a round in competition, as it provides insight as to the reason for your misses, and it will guide your practice and path to improved scores. If your scorecards indicate a scattering of misses — you drop one here, one there, sometimes in the middle of a station but more commonly on the third or fourth pair — this is … [Read more...]
Ask the Instructor: Cross Dominance
Cross Dominance I am 63 years old and only took up shooting in the last few years. I am left-eye dominant and shoot sporting clays and skeet right-handed, and I wink my left eye. I do just ok with this method but would like to shoot better. Would a gun fitting or lesson benefit me? While you should always shoot off the shoulder on the side of the more dominant eye, it is theoretically possible to overcome the biased sight picture caused by the dominance of your non-dominant-side left eye. Many shooters who start shooting at an early age (as a teenager or 20-something), shoot … [Read more...]
Hold Points
Hold Points "I’ve been taught the right way to shoot a report pair is to landmark the hold point and break point for both birds. After breaking the first, go to the hold point for the second, not just to the second bird. Makes sense. But what about a true pair? The second bird is long past its hold point by the time you get there." You will often encounter a true pair at a given station that is difficult, if not impossible, to engage with the same set of techniques that you would use if the two targets were presented as a report pair. For example, if you had a pair of … [Read more...]
Gun Weight
Gun Weight "I’m a Senior Super Veteran sporting clays shooter, and my shotgunweighs about 10 pounds. At times, halfway through a hundred targets my gun starts to feels slightly sluggish in my move to particular targets. Would I benefit from a lighter gun, and if so, whatwould be a suggested weight?" What you are feeling is a lack of maneuverability. Weight and balance are the two elements of a shot- gun’s maneuverability.What’s the ideal weight? This is highly individualized; however, I talk to many older shooters with 9+ pound guns looking for something lighter. If you … [Read more...]
Move-Mount-Shoot
Move-Mount-Shoot "I have read a lot about the move-mount-shoot technique, which my instructor advocates and teaches. I sometimes find that when I try to mount and shoot at the same time, I don’t see the target as clearly as when I ride the target a little bit before I pull the trigger. Can you explain?" The phrase “Move, Mount, Shoot” was first coined by John Bidwell, a champion British shooter in the 1980s and 1990s. There are many aspects of his writings and technique that I wholeheartedly endorse. There are, however, three points of difference I take with “Move, Mount, … [Read more...]
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