Don Currie's Shooting Tips...
 Sept. 30, 2021
Trees, branches, bushes, rocks, trap machines or other identifiable terrain features will provide potential “landmarks” you can use to plot your kill points and hold points. Once these key points are identified and committed to memory, your gun movement on any given pair should be straight lines between these points.
For most pairs, this results in three straight-line movements between four points; in other words, a “Z”. You call “pull” with your muzzle at the holdpoint of the first target. As the target launches, you move to the kill point of the first target, then to the hold point of the second target and finally to the kill point of the second target. Occasionally, you may encounter a pair that calls for two straight lines between three points if the breakpoint of the first target is in the same spot as the hold point of the second target.
Using landmarks on the background helps you consistently return to specific holdpoints and breakpoints at a given station. This, in turn, dramatically improves your consistency. If you encounter a target scenario in which one or both targets of a pair are against a featureless background, like blue or gray skies, you must modify your approach and “vector” or triangulate off of a known point.
If, for example, your planned holdpoint is about 45 degrees above the horizon, identify a terrain feature along the horizon to establish the windage (or horizontal axis) and an angle of measure (in this case 45 degrees) to establish your elevation (or vertical axis). Vectoring off known points is a good technique to use when land marking holdpoints and breakpoints against a featureless background.
Don Currie is the chief instructor of the National Sporting Clays Association and one of the most sought-after shooting coaches and gunfitter in our sport. Competing in the shooting sports since age 8 and instructing as an apprentice at age 16, Don is that rare combination of Champion, Instructor, Coach and Gunfitter Don regularly propels shotgun enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels to breakthrough performance whether in the field or in competition. He also fits and equips shooters for custom shotguns. His instructional DVD “Focus – Movement – Faith” is the #1 rated sporting clays DVD on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3jEtt1u. For more about Don, visit his web site at https://doncurrie.com.
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Sporting Sentinel
Sept. 30, 2021