Harley
Well-known member
Today I shoot a 60 bird, and fell back into this confusion zone again, only hit a third of the targets .
One of the tutors here, i presume must of felt a little sorry for me, he grabbed me and took a few mins to explain a few things afterwards.
First he tore a hole in the centre of a piece of paper and told me to hold it at arms length, looking at a object through the hole, I had to bring the paper up to my face, this was done a couple of times and proved I'm right eye dominant, as the paper ended up going over to my right eye as it got close (bloody good way of testing as well).
So then he asked me what leed I'm giving the long crossers (45 -55 yards), I said I ain't got a Danny, I've tried 1ft 2ft 3ft 4ft and then back to starting shooting lower and higher etc, it was a bloody nightmare, anyhow he told me to point at the area I wanted to kill this target, and hold my finger pointing at the kill area , then I called for a target and waiting for the target to hit my finger I had to say "bang" but be conscious of where the target was once I had called "bang" look past my finger, this then gave me a very rough indication of what kind of leed I needed to work on, I was amazed as I needed to give somewhere around 7 ft, and never in a month of Sundays would I ever give that much leed, I then put two carts in and shot em both straight off.
It just goes to show how far out I was.
Again the help was very welcomed, so now I come away with an imprinted image of what I should be doing, great..
Regardless of my scores, If I can come away from a shoot and take something with me, on what I learned then I'm happy.
Cheers
H.
One of the tutors here, i presume must of felt a little sorry for me, he grabbed me and took a few mins to explain a few things afterwards.
First he tore a hole in the centre of a piece of paper and told me to hold it at arms length, looking at a object through the hole, I had to bring the paper up to my face, this was done a couple of times and proved I'm right eye dominant, as the paper ended up going over to my right eye as it got close (bloody good way of testing as well).
So then he asked me what leed I'm giving the long crossers (45 -55 yards), I said I ain't got a Danny, I've tried 1ft 2ft 3ft 4ft and then back to starting shooting lower and higher etc, it was a bloody nightmare, anyhow he told me to point at the area I wanted to kill this target, and hold my finger pointing at the kill area , then I called for a target and waiting for the target to hit my finger I had to say "bang" but be conscious of where the target was once I had called "bang" look past my finger, this then gave me a very rough indication of what kind of leed I needed to work on, I was amazed as I needed to give somewhere around 7 ft, and never in a month of Sundays would I ever give that much leed, I then put two carts in and shot em both straight off.
It just goes to show how far out I was.
Again the help was very welcomed, so now I come away with an imprinted image of what I should be doing, great..
Regardless of my scores, If I can come away from a shoot and take something with me, on what I learned then I'm happy.
Cheers
H.
