Thread: Shooting Sporting Clays, help

Originally Posted by Ground Control

I'm not being a smart arse when I ask you this .
Do you have an idea of how you shoot a crossing target , doesn't matter if its close or far . What I mean by that question is
Do you start the barrels behind the bird , on the bird , in front of the bird ?
Are you a swing through , pull away or maintained lead shooter on a crossing target .
That often isn't a easy question to answer for a lot of shooters , because they say I don't know I just shoot it .
Knowing what technique you use will have help a little in tracking down some answers for you .

Will give this some thought because I am trying to figure out how I do it.
if I am trying to shoot the bird as soon as it gets out of the house, I would say gun up and onto bird and pull trigger but if I try and shoot it more out front the I seem to struggle, I swing thru from behind the bird but then as I come past it the lead thing pops up, as in how much, things get indecisive from there and a miss results as I lead too much or stop the gun on firing (I think)