Skeet Doubles Doubles is the fastest game in skeet. At registered shoots, the normal five-person squad takes an hour or less for each shooter to shoot 100 targets.   During each round of 25 targets there seems to be someone shooting all the time; it's a fast but fun event. Of course, it's more fun if you're hitting them well. Skeet shooters are used to shooting doubles on stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, so they have a lot of practice at those stations, but stations 3, 4 and 5 are where they don't normally shoot doubles. Station 8 is not shot in the doubles event. Since they get a lot … [Read more...]

Rushing One of the errors that newer and some experienced shooters make is rushing their shots. An experienced shooter I shot with last weekend had that problem, you could see that he wasn't ready when he called for low 8 in the last round of the 28GA. He missed it.   You see young people rushing their shots a lot. At station 1, they load two shells, shoot the high house single and almost as fast as they can, they call for the low house. They miss the low house more frequently than they would if they just slowed down a little. An experienced gentleman I trained to be a NSSA … [Read more...]

Watching Watching better shooters execute their shots   When you're attending registered shoots, watch the shooters that consistently shoot 'the scores' that put them in the winners' circle. By watching how they shoot their particular shots you can compare them and see what they might be doing to shoot shots you may not hit consistently or ones that you want to hit in a different way. Many years ago, Steve Tucker, a gentleman I used to shoot with, became an excellent skeet doubles shooter. He was already a 'AAA' class shooter in doubles as well as regular skeet, but he wanted … [Read more...]

The Turn In skeet shooting, and to a lesser degree in trap shooting, the turn you make toward the target is what will allow you to hit the targets with more regularity.   The turn is how we place our bodies in the correct position to take the shot at the proper time and place so as to have room to follow through after the shot is taken. In skeet, the turn is made using the larger muscles of your body, the 'glutes' and leg muscles. A good turn only uses the upper body to hold the shotgun and see the target, and the upper body only turns when the lower body turns. If you watch … [Read more...]

Unfamiliar Venues Shooting skeet at different venues.   We shoot skeet at the Tulsa Gun Club. We almost always shoot on a particular field. We know which tree we need to have our guns pointed at in order to ensure that we have a good hold point. We use the distance marker on one of the adjacent fields to make sure we have a good hold point for high 2 or low 6. We use the white box that frames the high house window to identify our hold point for high or low 8. We use the fences adjacent to the high and low houses for our hold points on stations 1 and 7. We try to use the trap … [Read more...]