The Height of Skeet and Sporting Clays Targets
Skeet and sporting clays are similar in many ways, but there is one basic difference: the height at which the targets are broken. In skeet, the targets are hooped and set so they have a common crossing point over the center stake. If you could take...
Variations in Weight Displacement
When the stance is right for the individual height and body shape, maintaining balance is simple and repeatable. Maintaining a central balance point and good shooting posture so the gun fits is a result. Women tend to have a top-heavier variance - some more that others...
Balance in Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays
Let’s talk about the different clay target games: how their similarities and differences affect stance, weight displacement, and balance. In trap and skeet, the targets are the constant. Both games are played pre-mounted and most shooters are “in the gun pretty tight.” And because they have...
Different Centers of Gravity and Your Shooting Stance
Because of the balance issue, shooters with different centers of gravity could need a more open stance, a more closed stance, or more upright or leaning forward stance to position their head and cheek in front of their shoulder pocket. So, to say that there’s one...
Routine, Anticipation, and Balance
We find ourselves observing people doing things they’ve practiced enough that they can be done without thinking. Then it becomes more and more evident that, through repetition, the brain has learned to push its awareness and anticipation farther ahead of what it’s doing at the...
The Importance of Balance
While balance alone allows for us to move through our complex lives every day, maintaining balance is taken for granted by humans until you reach your 70s. Then you’re made aware of just how important and precious the gyro of balance really is. If you don’t...
Maintaining Your Balance
You don’t give it any thought as you travel through your everyday life but staying in balance is a full-time job that has been turned over to the automaticity part of the brain. This is due to the massive use this circuit gets as you...
Why Are Most Guns Stocked Too High for Americans?
Here is another phrase we have heard in conversations: “To shoot that gun well, you’re going to have to apply more cheek pressure and have to roll your head forward to pull your eye down closer to the rib.” This will not work, but it’s a...
Cheek Pressure in the Showroom vs. Cheek Pressure While Shooting
One of the first things we learned is that when shooters mount a shotgun in the showroom, they always put more cheek pressure on the comb than they do when they’re actually shooting the gun. When we mention this to shooters, there is always one or...
Gun Fit and Mounting Consistently
Ask any well-read shooter and they will tell you that gun fit in wing/clay shooting is really important. But few know what gun fit really is. Because they haven’t put in the time to consistently mount the gun, their gun cannot be fitted to them. There are...