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Every Action with the Muzzles
In skeet, all but four targets are shot in the first third of their flight path, which means every action must be perfect.We have found one swing thought that has improved so many skeet shooters over our 42-year shooting coaching careers:Every action with the muzzles should be away from the action!If your first move is always away from the action, this will allow for you to slow the target down by adjusting your gun sp... Read more…
An Experienced Coach
The most frequent mistake we see all shooters do is not practicing deliberately. Deliberate practice is designed by you to improve the exact part of your game that keeps you where you are score-wise.In skeet shooting, 25 straight must become a habit. But a good honest evaluation of your overall game and what is holding you back from where you want to be is necessary to establish a practice routine to exploit your weakn... Read more…
Trying to Mount the Gun and Take the Shot
Trying to mount the gun and take the shot as you mount will result in inconsistencies that you cannot explain.You will never be consistently successful on longer shots that require a slower gun speed to match speed with the target speed, especially if you must apply medium to heavy cheek pressure.Soft mounting and going the same speed at the end allow for more consistent and higher scores and the bird slows down. Read more…
Gun is Always in the Periphery
I don’t ever look down the barrel when I shoot, nor do any of our students. The gun is always in the periphery and the target is always in our primary vision, so we are always looking at the target behind where the barrel is pointing.We are not trying to “not see the barrel” like so many shooters out there. It is impossible to visualize “not seeing something.”The brain cannot do anything if it cannot first visualize it... Read more…
Eye a Little Higher Over the Rib
If I were a shooter that mounted the gun and looked down the barrel chasing the target trying to fix the shot at the end…Or if I shot pull-away, trying to fix the shot at the end…Or if I shot trap…I would want to have my eye a little higher over the rib so I could see the bird better! Read more…
