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Make Your Plan and Shoot Your Plan
We are leaving to come home after being at Garland Mountain Sporting Clays near Canton, Georgia. Wow, what a beautiful place. Being November, the trees had turned their fall colors, which was lovely.This was our first trip to this club, but won’t be the last; they asked us to come back twice next year.We had a great time. It was a little cold on the last day, but it is November and we were in the mountains. We had only... Read more…
Fun at Nationals
We had a fabulous time at Nationals this year. It was so great to see everyone again. We rented an RV and became trailer-park trash for a week. We had a ball staying on “campus” and not having to fight the traffic.Over the course of the week, we shot 800 targets. And I have to say, by Thursday morning, I was tired. We don’t shoot that often and are not used to it. But it was so good to shoot and realize why people love... Read more…
Flat Shooting Gun
60/40 at 16 yards is much higher at 60 yards! 50/50 is 50/50 at all distances!60/40 is great at skeet, but the average distance a skeet target is shot is 14-and-a-half yards. And a high shooting gun is great for trap, but all targets are rising.When the targets are beyond 35-40 yards, shooting a gun that shoots flat yields much more consistent results and sight pictures.We are at Nationals as I write this and we have s... Read more…
The Game has Changed
I began my sporting career with a gun that shot 70/30 that I designed. It later became the Browning Special Sporting (crossover) and Lightning Sporting with a flat rib.But targets were rising or were flat and a long target was 30 yards!The game has changed and there are as many falling targets as there are rising targets now. So as the game has evolved, we have evolved from 60/40 to 50/50!How many long crossers have yo... Read more…
Gun Fit and Cheek Pressure
We have learned a lot about gun fit and cheek pressure over the past 25 years as professional coaches, the previous 17 years as competitive skeet shooters, and then as sporting clays competitors since 1983.We also have heard the theories about the iris sitting on the rib like a marble on a table. But we have found what works for us and all of our students. With the iris in the above position, whatever cheek pressure is... Read more…
