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...]
Faster Shells
Faster Shells "I tend to shoot behind longer-range targets. Does a faster shell, say 1,325 feet per second, get the shot to the target more quickly and therefore reduce the lead I need?" For the overwhelming majority of shooters, there is no perceivable difference between a shell that is 1,250 feet per second versus one that is 1,325 fps as far as time-to-target is concerned. With all other factors being equal, does the faster shell cause the shot to reach the target faster? Yes, but again, as fast as the shot cloud moves to the target, the difference is minuscule, and we … [Read more...]
Forcing Cones
Forcing Cones Do longer forcing cones lower felt recoil? Yes, theoretically, but only to a point. The shotgun ballistics experts I consult with agree that most of the recoil from a shotgun occurs in the first four tofive inches forward of the chamber, as the shot and wad are expelled from the shell casing and reach the bore. As the wad and shot exit the shell casing, they encounter a short, tapered section of the barrel between the chamber and the bore. This is known as the forcing cone, because the shot and wad cup are forced from the larger diameter chamber (about … [Read more...]
Visibility
Visibility "I’m a relatively new shooter and hope to shoot FITASC someday, so I am trying to practice a low-mount approach to as many targets as possible. When shooting at report or true pairs during a sporting clays round, however, and there is a significant delay between the appearance of the first and second target, am I better off to partly or fully dismount for the second target or to stay fully mounted? Should we be mounted or unmounted when in our ready position or whentransitioning between targets of a pair? Obviously, in FITASC, we are not given an option.We must … [Read more...]
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