I got a question via E mail, so here goes. Lots of this is from Brister et al, I'm making no claim as to originating any of this, but I've found it helpful.
The question was," Besides patterning, how can I tell where my shot is going?"....
In any of the clay games, it's not enough to see the target bust, there's lessons there if one looks for them.
Watch the breaks. If your targets bust into itty bitty pieces each and every time, forget this, you need no assistance, but....
If a lot of your breaks result in three large pieces, with one left, one right and one straight up, figure that you're hitting with the very top of your pattern. If that big chunk goes down, you're hitting with the bottom of your shot.
If you regularly chip on one side, sending the big piece flying to either the right or left, your pattern is almost missing the clay, and you need to adjust something. Possibly that something is your builtin computer, right there under your hat.If your gun fits, and your form is OK, you need to change where you hold slightly.
On hard right and left angles, crossing shots,etc, are you breaking the front of the clay or the back? Rising shots can show whether you need to speed your swing a trifle or slow it down for that presentation.
When I got into this addiction to trap last winter and spring, I had a big problem with hard rights from posts 4&5. On an empty range, I persuaded the trapper to lock the trap down and 50 rounds from Post 5 later, I was hitting most of them. Still am.
Remember that each shot is a bit different, and we need to shoot a fairtomiddlin' amount to get an accurate indication where the shot strikes. IMO, we can just keep working on that presentation until the computer adjusts to correctthings and make that clay dust or those little pieces flying every which way.
Hope this helps some folks out there, good luck and good shooting....
The question was," Besides patterning, how can I tell where my shot is going?"....
In any of the clay games, it's not enough to see the target bust, there's lessons there if one looks for them.
Watch the breaks. If your targets bust into itty bitty pieces each and every time, forget this, you need no assistance, but....
If a lot of your breaks result in three large pieces, with one left, one right and one straight up, figure that you're hitting with the very top of your pattern. If that big chunk goes down, you're hitting with the bottom of your shot.
If you regularly chip on one side, sending the big piece flying to either the right or left, your pattern is almost missing the clay, and you need to adjust something. Possibly that something is your builtin computer, right there under your hat.If your gun fits, and your form is OK, you need to change where you hold slightly.
On hard right and left angles, crossing shots,etc, are you breaking the front of the clay or the back? Rising shots can show whether you need to speed your swing a trifle or slow it down for that presentation.
When I got into this addiction to trap last winter and spring, I had a big problem with hard rights from posts 4&5. On an empty range, I persuaded the trapper to lock the trap down and 50 rounds from Post 5 later, I was hitting most of them. Still am.
Remember that each shot is a bit different, and we need to shoot a fairtomiddlin' amount to get an accurate indication where the shot strikes. IMO, we can just keep working on that presentation until the computer adjusts to correctthings and make that clay dust or those little pieces flying every which way.
Hope this helps some folks out there, good luck and good shooting....