Posted: 1/12/2020 11:20:58 PM EDT
| I'm a newbie to trap shooing so I need all the help I can get. Where do you aim? How do you aim? Any internet information out there? |
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Originally Posted By reelserious:
with shotguns you don not aim, you just point. keep the gun moving and pull the trigger, no "aiming" with a shotgun in clay sports. |
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All good advice here. Except none of it works for me. Eye dominance issues for me. I wear a lens cover on the left lens of my glasses. first I start low on the trap house bring the gun up so I can stack the beads. The bead in the middle of the barrel is just below the front bead and then put the bird just above the front bead. I shot a 25 tonight. my average is 22. |
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Holds for trap: Station 3 - Hold just off center of the house (right if you're a righty or left if you're a lefty) Stations 2 & 4 - Bisect the middle and the front corner of the house on your side Stations 1 & 5 - 3-5 yards off the front corner, left on 1, right on 5 If the wind is behind you hold low on the house. If the wind is in your face hold high on the house. Most acute rock angle is hard left on station 1 or hard right on station 5. Toughest rock for me being a righty is hard right on station 5. My right arm is in the way of a fast/smooth swing and in a blink I'm behind it. What I was taught is slightly drop your barrel, catch up to the rock with the swing, then bring the barrel back up in front of the rock as you squeeze the trigger. It looks like snap shooting - it is NOT! |
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Originally Posted By reelserious: with shotguns you don not aim, you just point. keep the gun moving and pull the trigger, no "aiming" with a shotgun in clay sports. There are several techniques in the clay shooting world, the closer the bird you want to be barrel aware but no you don’t aim. You either want two beads (end and mid-barrel beads) or no beads at all. One is bad. In Trap you need to be on top of the bird and target the rim. |
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First thing is using the pattern board at the range. Put up a large piece of paper, draw a clay pigeon in the center, then step back and have that pigeon circle ‘setting’ on top of the end of the barrel. Then count the density of shot holes in the circle and each quadrant around it. That will give you an ideal for initial pointing to center the clay in the shot pattern. Then study typical target leads as mentioned above. |
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Originally Posted By Grizz272: All good advice here. Except none of it works for me. Eye dominance issues for me. I wear a lens cover on the left lens of my glasses. first I start low on the trap house bring the gun up so I can stack the beads. The bead in the middle of the barrel is just below the front bead and then put the bird just above the front bead. I shot a 25 tonight. my average is 22. Yeah, your not so much 'aiming' as your are being "muzzle aware." I'm left-eye dominate, righty as well and I deploy several methods to overcome this. The easiest thing is to squint/close the left eye before you break the shot so your right is aligned up the beads. On a shotgun you want two or no beads, on two you want "the Snowman" where the front is on top of the mid bead. Another great eye-dominance trick is a piece of scotch tape or dedicated eye-patch tape aligned to your left (or right if you have the opposite problem,) so you can pick up the bird to the left of you, peripheral vision is key in shooting clays. Finally, I shoot "low mount" most times and simply lock onto the birds while bring the shotgun inline of my right eye and fire when I feel it reach my cheek. Trap isn't my thing, I much prefer Sporting Clays but the same techniques apply. |