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...]