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Hartmann’s Hint #14: Unfamiliar Venues

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...]

Tagged With: Barry Hartmann, Hartmann's Hints, Master Instructor, NSSA, shotgun, skeet

Ask the Instructor: Gun Mount to the Cheek

Gun Mount to the Cheek   A friend who only shoots skeet questioned the amount of drop on my gunstock. Both of the guns I shoot have parallel combs with 2 inches of drop. His thought was that if I mounted the gun securely under my cheekbone, I would not need as much drop. My thought is that as long as I mount to the cheek, my mount is consistent and my eye is above the rib, the comb does not have to be pressed into the cheekbone. I would appreciate your thoughts and comments.   You are correct! With a practiced and consistent mount to the cheek (not the shoulder), your eye will … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Ask the Instructor, Don Currie, Gun Mount, NSCA Chief instructor, Target Talk

Ask the Instructor: Routines

Routines   I’m struggling this season. I seem to drop four times as many birds on third and fourth pairs as I do on first and second pairs. Until I fix this I am stuck in the mid-80s, which is much better than a year ago but not as good as I want to be. What do I do?   This is purely a mental game issue. More specifically, it is an issue with your pre-shot routine. In order to achieve consistency, your pre-shot routine must be consistent. Your conscious mind seems to be wandering off during your third and fourth pair at each station. Sporting clays is a unique sport in that the … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Ask the Instructor, Don Currie, NSCA Chief instructor, Target Talk

Hartmann’s Hint #13: Peeking

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...]

Tagged With: Barry Hartmann, Hartmann's Hints, Master Instructor, NSSA, shotgun, skeet

Ask the Instructor: Cross Dominance

Cross Dominance   I am a right-handed shooter and left-eye dominant. I know I am handicapped from the start, but can I still learn to shoot well like this?   Yes. For a variety of reasons, some shooters insist on shooting from the side opposite the dominant eye, a situation referred to as cross-dominance. In many cases, cross-dominant shooters don't want to retrain themselves to mount to the dominant side, or they have some physical limitation. Whatever the reason, you must figure out a way to put the nondominant eye (on the shooting side of the cross-dominant shooter) in … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Ask the Instructor, Cross Dominance, Don Currie, NSCA Chief instructor, Target Talk

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