Trapshooting... really got me down

[PapaG]

After a five week layoff due to knee replacement I shot my league last night. Had been having fits with handicaps, we are 25-26 yard. Well, knee and back gave me fits, all I could do is shoulder the gun, call for the bird and see it, shoot it. No bead check, no rib looking.
23/25 @16, 24/25 @25.
Gun fit!!! Quit aiming. See, shoot. Been shooting this gun for 49 years.

 

[mjsdwash]

start by grouping the gun. Things do change.

 

[Savage30L]

Very interesting thread here, and some good advice given. I shot skeet some back in the 90s and got reasonably good at it. On the other hand, I've never been any good at all at trap.

My gun club has a trap field and the old-timers shoot regularly. I should probably start, joining them. Lord knows I have the ammo stockpiled to do it.

 

[Armored farmer]

Another little trick I used was to focus my shot on ....not just the bird....but the leading edge of the bird.
If you can practice this, it does two things:
Increases your lead by an inch or two.
Makes you focus more intently on the bird. (concentrate)

 

[Mercy Me]

I have a bt99 and at least 4 other browning and I don’t shoot clay or trap anymore after a shoulder injury.

 

[eastbank]

i hear out local vision impaired center is forming a trap social club, i,m going to join. i,m sure there will be room if you want to join me. hell they didn,t even know it was snowing.

 

[patmccoy]

Perhaps you quit mentally focusing on shooting the one bird in front of you, and were thinking of the string results. I told my juniors they could not shoot a 100 prone, only a ten on ten consecutive shots.

 

[PapaG]

The only bird that matters is the one coming out next. Focus where it should appear, pick it up, swing past, shoot. You'll never hit one you "aim" at. It ain't there any more.
As I tell my high school trap kids, gotta shoot where its gonna be, not where it was. And if you shoot and don't swing on through you gonna miss it anyway.
Ask the quarterback if he throws at the receiver. Of course he doesn't, unless the guy is standing still. He throws where the receiver is supposed to be.

 

[entropy]

Perhaps you quit mentally focusing on shooting the one bird in front of you, and were thinking of the string results. I told my juniors they could not shoot a 100 prone, only a ten on ten consecutive shots.

That's a good one for shoot offs in Annie's: "Ok, boys, were shooting this one prone......."

When I start slipping to shooting the occasional 21 or 20 (or worse, anything that starts with a 1), I rewatch the D. Lee Braun video and get back to
the basics. Then I turn it over to my subconscious after I've checked over the basics. That's where the real work is done. Thinking on the line will cause lost birds.