Jack Ryan
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Sure, no doubt about it. You have to learn trap at a real trap range with real trap guns if you can swing it.I coach SCTP High School, and coached 4-H, and George P. knows a lot more about it than I do. We've been there. Your method works out in the back 40, and yes can also be valuable. I got my start doing it your way, and was lucky to have the best wingshot I've ever known teach me. (Not my Dad, his best friend.) Re-read George P.'s post, you'll find it's closer to your method than you realize. I however would never have been able to break 25 on the Trap range without a very good Trap coach coaching me on an actual Trap range. (And I shot my first 25 from 22 yards.)
First you have get some one to come to a trap range and even before that they have to WANT to learn to shoot trap. Even before that they have to WANT to learn to shoot a shotgun. That is my job. I PREFER teaching people who WANT TO LEARN ABOUT SHOTGUNS. I want them to LEARN they can shoot shotguns. Unfortunately way too often I have to first UNTEACH them every thing their macho man already taught them. Most times it is a husband, or boyfriend or sometimes a father who has taught them it hurts, you miss way more than you can hit anything, and you spend most of your time watching someone else break them and then you miss one and they take the gun. Eventually they both give up. Compared to that, someone who has never touched one is a breeze to teach.
My goal for beginners is they learn to like it, shotguns are fun, they can do it all safely and successfully, they can clean one, take it apart, put it together, handle it safely alone in the field, at home or on a standard shotgun range AND HAVE FUN DOING IT ALL. They leave WANTING TO DO IT MORE and wanting to "try one of those trap ranges..."
I don't train Olympic trap or skeet shooters and I don't want to. They already know it all, they don't need me.
Dink Kingen taught me to shoot trap in the afternoons one summer at Kingen's club near Indianapolis.
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