Our panel of experts tackle your clay shooting queries from fear of failure to bifocal blues
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Ask the Experts: March
Our panel of experts tackle your clay shooting queries including problematic presentations and prescription choke queries
Seeing Skeet
Q. I am a 40 year old right handed, right eye dominant shooter and I shoot with both eyes open. I mainly shoot Skeet and a little Sporting. This year I have been having difficulty with my high house left…
The distance trap
Q. At a recent sporting shoot I missed all three of the first clays of a report pair. I felt I was behind the first clay when shooting the stand, but I had it in my mind it was only…
DTL stalemate
Q. I find myself shooting DTL on a regular basis of late and have got to a stage where my scores are roughly the same each time. Can you suggest what chokes and cartridge combination in your opinion is the ideal…
Tagged with: Clay Shooting, DTL, improving scores, MArk Brownlee
Posted in Ask the Experts, Coaching
Posted in Ask the Experts, Coaching
Back to basics
<<MG7658>> Q. Sometimes after a shoot I will try to practice specific targets that I may have struggled with. This seems the logical thing to do but, frustratingly, I have found even if I ‘figure it out’ and make…
Starting out
Q. I have recently received my Shotgun certificate and I am looking at buying my first gun. I will mainly be shooting at my local sporting clay club but may want to do a bit of rough shooting. I…
Get yourself centered
Q. I have heard about centering and how it helps with concentration. Can you explain this? Trevor Michaels, Lancashire A. Centering is a way of focusing the mind and body to be ready to work at the…
Tagged with: centring, Clay Shooting, concentration, mental training
Posted in Ask the Experts, Coaching
Posted in Ask the Experts, Coaching
Sighting problems
Q. I need advice on problems with my vision whilst clay shooting. I can see the target quite clearly on first looking at it but seems to go quite blurred and difficult to see upon mounting the gun. I…
Under Pressure
Q. I find my nerves getting the better of me at many shoots. Predictable, this seems to happen most when “something is on the line” like during a shoot off or near the end of a round when I am…
