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@jwpzx9r Yeah. I see what you’re saying. That while skeet you see the presentations ultimately more often, you do get opportunities to see them. So yeah. It’s not going in totally blind.  From a personal perspective, looking over someone’s shoulder I don’t get a wholly accurate picture. This...

Reminds me of the old physics conundrum. Which would bounce higher when dropped:  A rubber ball dropped onto a steel plate or a steel ball dropped onto a steel plate?

@jwpzx9r I think what @El Spavo is eluding to is that in English Sporting, you may be 6th in a squad of six on a stand of five pairs so you get to shoot the same target that you’ve seen 25-29 times. Over say ten or twelve stands. Much less if your first up of course. Then you move onto the next...

No:4 🤣🤣🤣 In terms of the physics the opposite is true. Air is thinner when it’s hotter. The gas (air) expanded. This creates less drag.    However, at the sizes of shot we would be using, and the velocities they are shot along with the difference in air viscosity at temperatures of say -10 to...

I’m not saying I cannot identity with this. Except being a teenager... that I’ve long forgotten about. Oh... and probably the intelligence bit too. In summary... I’m a bit.. a lot pig headed

I suppose I’m fortunate that I can filter that sort of thing (unsolicited advice) out if I want to.  I don’t believe in “experts” myself, and sometimes I filter out the advice from the “experts” too. For me, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, not the recipe. I’m reminded of a time...

Yeah, I’ve been told that too, but I concur with @Westward my observations thought not based on anywhere near as much experience are pretty much the same. One thing that I’ve found to be more inconsistent than my shooting is the shooting advice on offer. This seems to be a sport where the...

I don’t think I’m doing any better to be fair. At the moment I’m not really keeping much of a count. More of a guess really. I’d guess that on single targets up to 40-45 yards I’m probably hitting about 8/10. On longer targets and pairs, I’m probably hitting about half, so adding it up, probably...

Another novice here experiencing the same thing. I was told recently that I drop the gun out of my shoulder quite often. I wasn’t aware I was doing it. I do know that I would sometime lift my hear slightly off the stock to get a better view, and then in the last moments, head down to take the...

Indeed interesting. Perhaps academic? If I recollect correctly Richard Atkins of Clay Shooting magazine once wrote that in his testing he found a lighter load patterned better. But as I said, I think it’s a bit academic.  I’m with   @Hamster   “More lead more dead” even if the pattern isn’t so...

That’s so true. I got a new cartridge pouch and it doubled my score!

Teague springs immediately to my mind https://www.teaguechokes.com/barrel-improvement

I guess differences in people can make a difference in performance.  I’m fortunate that I’ve always had reasonably good hand/eye coordination, spatial awareness and timing.  When I’m driving, I don’t look at my bonnet or my door mirrors, but I know where they are. I don’t even look in the...

If one neglected to clean their gun and something went wrong, that would be no accident. If a cartridges had a misfire, you waited the prescribed 20 seconds and on opening the gun, the cartridge discharged rearwards, that would be an accident. An accident is an event that happens by...

Well, I have said before, if the timing is right it wouldn’t matter if the gun was bolted down to a bench. That’s not skill it’s geometry, maths, physics! Certainly what you’re saying is contrary to what many advocate. To my mind, any movement post the clay being broken is actually wasted...

That was my first approach and I missed the second (leading clay) Basically I initially thought I’d be moving in the same direction and would be best, but it worked out that for me it became visually confusing. I’m gradually learning to make changes when the plan doesn’t work, rather than...

Thanks @Will Hewland I do recognise what you’re describing with regards to slowing to adjust lead. I’ve been conscious of that on some occasions.    I shot probably my best on Saturday to be fair. I still find it hard to put trust in what I’m doing and have a tendency to question everything...

Before you ask... No! Not that kind of transition  While I remain to be convinced about spending several hundred pounds on Shotkam, I do find video taken with modern multi lens phones with slow motion quite a useful tool to show what a useless tool I am at shooting. In the videos below, I...

I’m interested in your thought process  behind this. I always take what you say fairly seriously as reading back over comments you make, they always seem to have some logic and experience underpinning them.    As I said above, I have shot 28, 30 & 32 inch and I can hardly tell the difference 

@MK82 692, 694 and DT11 as far as I know  🤔 errr.... ummm... special... order? 😬 🤣