New Gun, Now Missing Certain Targets

I made the comment a while shooting with one of the older gentlemen at the club, that it made no sense to me to miss a single on a particular station yet always hit the doubles. His answer had me laughing, " you have too much time to think on the singles, and no time to think on the doubles, stop thinking".
 
Maritime Storm said:
I made the comment a while shooting with one of the older gentlemen at the club, that it made no sense to me to miss a single on a particular station yet always hit the doubles. His answer had me laughing, " you have too much time to think on the singles, and no time to think on the doubles, stop thinking".
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I would agree with that statement ... the same may be true when you shoot trap on a short squad.
 
Oh yeah, the other piece of sage advice : Keep the wooden head on the wooden stock !

It's caught me out a few times. Besides, the Referee will let you know if you hit or miss !!!!
 
beretta boy said:
Oh yeah, the other piece of sage advice : Keep the wooden head on the wooden stock !

It's caught me out a few times. Besides, the Referee will let you know if you hit or miss !!!!
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Ah yes, lifting the head. It's thankfully not a problem I usually have. But twice it has most memorably gotten me.

The odd coincidence is when/where it occurred, both times during the Capital of Canada shoot.

I was straight into the last box station 5 low house target, field #3 at NCRRA Shotgun Section in Ottawa, was uncomfortable with my mount so took the gun down, paused put it up again, called for the bird and just to make sure I got an extra good look, I took my head off the gun.

Ended up with a 99, that was the 12 ga. event.

Fast forward to last year, same field, same club, exact same target, last box, but in the 28ga. event, lifted head off gun and ended up with a 99.

And no I wasn't thinking about what had happened before, only realized it after we got off the field.

Oh well, such is life, damn lost targets!
 
I always figured the worst target on the field to be High 1. For some, missing that first target of a round will screw up the entire round for them psychologically. The best point of view I've ever heard was this; View the round of 25 targets as 25 1 target rounds, and don't stand there counting your misses, count your hits.
 
I generally shoot two or more guns, every time that I shoot skeet. I mainly shoot my sporting clays guns in 12,20 and 28 gauge, but I also shoot my upland and waterfowl guns now and then, especially when hunting season is approaching. I realize that constantly changing guns will prevent me from shooting my absolute best, but I own several shotguns, and I like to shoot them all. I have shot clean rounds with all but my 410 Citori Feather, and my 20 gauge Winchester 23 SXS, with 24 being my best with either.
 
For the most part, I shot 2 22/25 rounds a couple of weeks back, shot trap with it last Sunday broke 17 twice, then a 19 on the Skeet field, missed 3 targets on High 2 and 1 on High 8. Some of which can be attributed to a wrenched back from shovelling out on Saturday.
 
Winter shooting has always been a bit of a pain ... once it gets to around -5 C. my scores are not all consistent. Same thing in summer when the temp is up in the 30's and
humid.

By the time you're 8 or 10 flats in in good weather, things should improve ! ;)
 
Winter certainly has it's challenges, Sunday for instance I land at the club to open up as usual. The temperature a was -3C with a light wind, I spend the usual cigar hour opening the club and houses, filling the machines, collecting the spent hulls and garbage, etc to get ready for our 1pm opening. Comfortable for the light jacket I was wearing. The members drifted in, I shot the breeze with the group, then we head off to shoot a round. Damn near froze to death, winds picked up a couple of KPH and changed to paralell with the field, and the temp had dropped to -7C. The high house targets were 3.5-4' off the ground at the Low house, the Low house targets would almost hang in the air in line with the high house. It made for and interesting couple of rounds. The high was a 20, I hovered 15-16 for the day. An the upside, not a flake of snow on the fields here right now, and rain in the forecast this week, right now it's -12C here.
 
Yup, Canada.....don't like the weather, just wait for a couple of hours.
Been O.K. here for about a week then a little snow tonight. Colder tomorow and then mild & rain by Sunday !
No complaints, only had the shovel out twice so far & haven't gone to the snow blower yet !
 
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