Thread: Tips for beginners in trap and skeet

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

You maybe able to take note of what your target does after it has been hit, if it stops dead you have probably shot it in the front of it, if it takes off probably behind.. but get a coach.

What Ground Control says about where you are standing [feet position] is of massive importance esp in skeet shooting. Think where you are going to shoot the target, place your feet to that position, then coil your body back to the tower, your target will come out of, you will feel your self getting a bit "uncoiled" and that should enable you to either keep a lead on the target [sustained lead] or enable you to push thru the target. Imagine if you have stood comfortably looking at the trap house where the target is coming out of... the target comes out you will now be getting coiled up to where you are going to shoot the target... making it harder to get in front of the target..

Foot position for a right hand shooter is easy, walk on the station and point your belly button at the low house, this is for stations 2,3,4,5,6.
Stations 1,7,8 are self explanatory.
Hold point for those stations is 1/3 rd from the house to the crossing point,approx 7 yards.
Most new shooters take around 6 months of shooting most weekends to start shooting consistently in the 20's,
I've been shooting skeet for 50 yrs, have seen a lot come and go.