Self-Adjusting Short of having a gun fitter adjust my comb, how can I be sure my adjustable comb is in the right place and adjusted properly? Here is a tip for DIY comb adjusting: Find a mirror inside your home or in the clubhouse and stand in front of it, facing the mirror, with your unloaded shotgun. Stand just far enough away from the mirror so the muzzle is about six inches away from the mirror when you are fully mounted to the shotgun. Use a whiteboard marker to place a small dot on the mirror in front of you at the same height as your eye when you are fully mounted. … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #9: One Person
One Person Almost everyone at the range is more than happy to show or tell you how to shoot a particular shot. Most of these shooters want to help others learn our sport. Whether it's shooting, cooking or riding a bicycle we all need someone to help get us to where we can do those things. With shooting, as with anything else, you can get opinions from almost anyone. While these are sometimes helpful they are sometimes way off target. One person may tell you to shoot a target a certain way and another person will tell you to shoot it a different way and a third may tell you … [Read more...]
Ask the Instructor: Parallel Combs
Parallel Combs Can you explain why having an angled comb makes sense? Why wouldn’t everyone want a parallel comb? 100,000 trap shooters can’t be wrong. Historically, shotgun stocks have been angled, which means they are higher at the peak of the comb (front end, toward receiver) and lower at the heel of the comb (back end, toward the butt). The reason behind this has its origins in English-style shooting, in which shooters did not premount the shotgun, except in pigeon/box shooting. For shooters that initiate the gun mount to the cheek and shoulder after the bird becomes … [Read more...]
Hartmann’s Hint #8: Shot Plan
Shot Plan Have a ‘shot plan.’ It’s been proven that shooters with a shot plan actually achieve better scores than those that don't have one. A shot plan includes a few steps that work for you to get you focused on the task at hand—your next shot and only your next shot. In skeet shooting, your shot plan starts before you get on the station. That’s where you should be looking at how the targets are flying; thinking about your hold point, look point, kill zone, and foot position; and keeping positive thoughts about your shooting. When it’s your turn to get on the station, … [Read more...]
Ask the Instructor: Changing Chokes
Changing Chokes I am currently a C-class shooter and I see a lot of shooters around me changing chokes and shot sizes. What do you prefer and why? I personally shoot fixed chokes (mod and mod), which might give you some insight as to my bias. I shoot 7½ shot and, when competing, I carry 8½ or 9 shot for closer targets or those that show belly or face, like a battue. Chokes are a personal choice, as is the decision to change to affect pattern size. There’s plenty of technical evidence that changing chokes and/or shot size will change pattern density at a given distance. … [Read more...]
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