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...]

Peeking Peeking is something we avoided doing when we were young and playing 'Hide and seek.'   We learned to not peek at the answers when we were taking tests in school or to not peek at the answers that others were writing on their tests. Peeking was a way of cheating, we wanted to be fair and we avoided it. "What's all this have to do with shooting?" you ask. We, as shooters, must also avoid 'peeking' if we want our scores to meet our expectations. Peeking is where we look somewhere other than where we should be looking during the execution of a shot. In shotgun … [Read more...]