El Spavo
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Fair one, but personally I don't see the bead/muzzle end at all as It's always lined up & tracking wherever my eyes are and to me that's then where my gun will shoot so it disappears to me: I believe I'm looking at the clay at all points and then move away for the shot with it then in my peripheral for that inch or so so I know where I want the shot to go (if that makes sense), but get where you're coming from. My problem with the analogy of the three foot stick varying depending on how far away you are is that I struggle with gauging distance between me and the clay when it gets over a certain distance so the stick then varies hugely. Might be that my way is just easier for me to see if someone were to say 'give if another inch'. I presume you mean that for you at 10 yards it's three foot, but at 40 yards you adjust so that stick becomes, say, 2.5 yards?
Bloke in my shooting lot said he'd read apparently it's how more women see it than men (no jokes about inches intended!) as it's a spacial thing. I guess whatever works.
As long as there's a universal way of describing it then that's fine, but I think that's where the problem lay more often than not as most of the time you hear people saying 'you want to add another foot to your lead' or whatever, but if you can't judge a foot/metre/mile that well then it's useless information to you. Someone on here posted that they were instructed with just four terms: Hit it, hit the edge, bit in front, and loads in front. Seems easier to think of that way as you're not visualising distance, just rough approximation.
Bloke in my shooting lot said he'd read apparently it's how more women see it than men (no jokes about inches intended!) as it's a spacial thing. I guess whatever works.
As long as there's a universal way of describing it then that's fine, but I think that's where the problem lay more often than not as most of the time you hear people saying 'you want to add another foot to your lead' or whatever, but if you can't judge a foot/metre/mile that well then it's useless information to you. Someone on here posted that they were instructed with just four terms: Hit it, hit the edge, bit in front, and loads in front. Seems easier to think of that way as you're not visualising distance, just rough approximation.
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after all of the bunnies, a simo pair of teal and a simo pair of coloured rocket trap targets, the flip side was being all at sea on a simo l-r bin lids then simply running out of steam on last three stands. Weather was spot on for end December, have had it cold n wet at Owls which can be unpleasant. 
