As we gear up for the 2021 Clay Shooting Classic, we’re exploring how you can set off on your journey from amateur to the Classic. James Marchington offers some advice on how to go about buying your first shotgun. I’m…
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Road to the Classic 2021: Buying your first shotgun
Tagged with: beginners, cartridges, clay ground, clay gun, Clay Shooting, Clays, first gun, guide, gun, gun mount, James Marchington, semi-auto, sgc, shooters, shooting, Shotgun, targets
Posted in Advice and tips
Posted in Advice and tips
The importance of using feedback in clay shooting
Georgina Roberts has some advice for anyone who receives help during shooting on how to best use the feedback Everyone gets feedback, whether you’re an athlete or a coach. It can range from more technical feedback such as gun mount,…
Home workout: Georgina Roberts on quarantine training
OT shooter Georgina Roberts shares her tips for building a exercise and shooting home workout regime during lockdown. Now that we’re stuck at home, we all want to continue as best we can with our training, and emerge from lockdown…
Tagged with: fitness, georina roberts, gun hold, gun mount, lockdown, Olympic Trap, range, shooter, shooting, Shooting skills, swing, techniques, trigger, workout
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Posted in Advice and tips
Putting a new Krieghoff to the test
After months selecting his new Krieghoff, Rhys Plum puts it to the test at Barbury. July has been a big one for me, and has been my busiest month competing so far. As well as travelling to events around the country,…
Gun mount technique: beginners guide to clay shooting
You can’t expect to improve your scores until you can get your gun mount technique right every time, as James Marchington explains. You hear a lot about gun mount technique, and for good reason. It’s vital that you mount a…
Tagged with: Clay Shooting, gun mount, gun mount technique, James Marchington, shotgun shooting, target
Posted in Advice and tips, Coaching
Posted in Advice and tips, Coaching
Shooters’ tips for making the most of coronavirus lockdown
Rhys Plum talks to fellow shooters to discover how they are coping, and gets some shooters’ tips on maintaining skills and fitness. Shooters’ tips: Matt Hance First to give out shooters’ tips is Matt Hance. Matt is currently in the…
Tagged with: Amy Easeman, ej churchills, england, FITASC, fitness, gun, gun mount, shooters, skills, target, Team GB, tom seay
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Posted in Advice and tips
Bryce explains correct gun-holding technique
Bryce Blandford-Corp explains how holding your gun properly will aid a good mount and swing, as well as reducing the effects of recoil As a newcomer to clay shooting, or just shooting in general, there’s a lot to think about,…
Jason Doyle on missing training
No-one likes missing, says Jason Doyle, but that’s why you should do it more often: so that you hit when it counts After taking a few weeks off shooting to recover from my neck injury I was hungry for action…
Tagged with: clay, gun mount, jason doyle, missing training, practice session, shooting, skill
Posted in Technical
Posted in Technical
The perfect hit: gun fit really is as important as everyone says!
Keen sporting shot Jason Doyle has been consulting a number of experts on the subject, and it turns out gun fit really is as important as everyone says it is. The last couple of months have been pretty quiet for…
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Posted in Advice and tips
Winter Warmers
Tagged with: Clay Shooting, coaching, eyesight, fitness, gun mount, Steve Rawsthorne, winter
Posted in Coaching
Posted in Coaching
