Shooting style

[Hawkeye]

Following a similar thread on the trap section, WHAT is the best style for National Skeet ?  

 

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What is National Skeet.......? :wink:

Is that the daft name made up by ICTSF for English skeet?

 

[shootinguru]

:fie:  probably Nic, we don't want to be RACIST now do we? :fie:   :fie:

 

[Guest]

Hi Nic,

For the avoidance of doubt for the non skeet shooters out there....

National skeet is English skeet shot outside England, but not Great Britain! Not to be confused with NSSA skeet or Olympic skeet which has the same name regardless of where it is shot...

Just saying.....

 

[sibaldib]

Hi Nic,

For the avoidance of doubt for the non skeet shooters out there....

National skeet is English skeet shot outside England, but not Great Britain! Not to be confused with NSSA skeet or Olympic skeet which has the same name regardless of where it is shot...

Just saying.....

Thank you for making that clear.  :thankyou:

 

[clutey]

For National skeet Bryan it has to be maintained lead but not the Todd Bender style, If I crouched that low I'd have trouble getting up again. :fie:   

 

[Buffalo]

I've been shooting for many years and was recently observed and filmed (I might add) shooting in a fashion whereas I swing, unitil I achieve the required lead, then stop the gun and pull the trigger. I describe this as maintained lead, the guys that filmed me described my method as "Poke & Hope". I've started shooting a little skeet to try and get my smoothness back - I've clearly picked up some bad habits and I may need the formidable Ed Solomans to help sort me out......

 

[Hawkeye]

I thought that English Skeet was renamed National Skeet by the CPSA at some point in the past.

 

[Hawkeye]

It seem's it is called English Skeet in CPSA classifications and rules so I must have been mistaken .

 

[Gee]

Nothing wrong with yours Brian. There are lots of guys with various styles  I watch and think to myself, 'that looks good'..........be buggered if I could shoot like any of them tho.

 

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Bryan I was tongue in cheek ...

National skeet is English skeet renamed and 'is' (Simon) shot outside GB.

It is what skeet is now called since the Cpsa as a part of ICTSF took the discipline Worldwide.

However hardly anyone turned up to shoot the Worlds when we first had it in the UK ....and it cost us a fortune as we lost money on it ....and it was an embarrassment .

 

[Skeetfreak]

The best style..... the eternal question i think and one that is unique to every single person who shoots skeet.

Reason being....

The MOST important factor is consistent repeatability EVERY SINGLE TIME on every single target. Skeet is a game of perfection (which ever version you choose) and in order to achieve that you cannot afford mistakes in any aspect of your set up and shot.

So you need everything to be the same time after time after time. In order to achieve this you need to be able to find a way that is comfortable and suits you personally as you will not repeat something perfectly if its not 100% comfortable. So you can do it again and again. Now we all have our own opinions on what this is (including myself) as each of us is slightly different in what makes us comfortable in our shooting.

Take a close look next time your at a skeet shoot at the various styles of the top skeet shooters - even the ones using the supposed "Bender style" they are all slightly different - each has their own twist on things in terms of how they set-up / finish the shot - because it suits them.

As for the "world championship skeet"  - IMO there is only one that counts and carries any kind of kudos and that is the NSSA version that is held in the USA each Sept / Oct since 1935 (missing 1943,44,45 due to WW2) and has been held at the NSC in San Antonio, TX since 1993 getting around 700+ shooters each year. If the people running the "National skeet worlds" had done their research they would have realised there was little / no point in trying to set up an alternative and it was doomed to failure. They were never going to attract a global attendance like the NSSA worlds does as it already has the history and kudos. 

 

[SARZY]

I recently referred to it as English Skeet in conversation with a high ranking official in a governing body outside of the UK and he became animated and 'corrected' me, pointing out that it is now known as National Skeet.

What a load of b****x.

What is National about, and if that makes a clear distinction then why not National Trap for DTL or National Sporting for English Sporting or better again forget it and call it by its proper name, English Skeet.

 

[SARZY]

As for the method, the English political way is best, whatever seems popular .

 

[SARZY]

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[SARZY]

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[SARZY]

P.P.S.   the initials for 'laugh out loud' wont work

 

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I recently referred to it as English Skeet in conversation with a high ranking official in a governing body outside of the UK and he became animated and 'corrected' me, pointing out that it is now known as National Skeet.

What a load of b****x.

What is National about, and if that makes a clear distinction then why not National Trap for DTL or National Sporting for English Sporting or better again forget it and call it by its proper name, English Skeet.

The biggest laugh that I am laughing with you is the comment that someone has referred to themselves as (or given the impression that they are) or that 'anyone' thinks that there is 'a high ranking official'......in any governing body inside or outside the UK.

'High ranking numpties ' now that one I can recognise as a growing species ..... L. O. L.

High ranking official...... L. M. A. O. :laugh:

Did this high ranking official (now known for short as HRO) shoot? Are you sure he said 'ranking'?

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Or did he have a reverse impediment..... Welease Wodderick...!! ..... Haha......or HWHW...... Ah hahahahahahahahahaha .....that has made me laugh this morning.....thank you. :kiss:

 

[Jan Powell]

Skeet requires a fairly robotic approach to shoot big scores, that's why maintained lead is the way to go for all targets except high 1, low 7 and high and low 8. It's the development of maintained lead as a shooting technique that's led to such high scores in recent years and relatively few use anything else.

As for stance, always gun up and weight forward obviously. I bend at the knees but this isn't essential provided the shoulders are level throughout the move.