Teaching trap to wife

[silverado]

Hello All
My wife is interested in shooting trap and bird hunting. I bought her a Beretta Urika youth 20 gauge which seems to fit her well. I have been taking her out and I throw clays for her. I can not seem to be able to get her on target and she is getting frustrated with herself. I do not want her to loose her desire to shoot. I would like to get her some lessons from somebody that knows how to teach. We live in Lancaster Ca.
Can anybody suggest an instructor, and maybe go to Oak Tree Gun Club? I know they have an instructor that goes there but by his flyer he does the safety class (for newbies) combined with some trap. She is very familiar with gun usage and safety. I would like her to have a one on one with just trap. Thanks for your help. Jack

[Millions-Knives]

Moore-N-Moore is a great place for sporting clays, not exactly 'trap' but I've heard great things about their instructor 'Dan Reeves'. Planning to get some lessons done myself.

[randy]

PM ysr_racer he's the clay shooter here.

[popndrop]

Just get with somebody who understands the body mechanics of shooting - a couple of simple pointers will usually increase the broken clays quickly.
-Keep your cheek-weld
-make sure the stock is high enough, big tendency is to put the stock down lower than it should be - resulting in shooting over the top of the bird
- practice - and when she hits a bird, ask her to remember that "Sight Picture" in her head - that is where she'll see a huge improvement - when she can duplicate that "Sight Picture" she'll start breaking all the clays,

then you'll be in trouble, because that nice Auto you bought here won't be "pretty enough" and she'll want the guns with the nice wood, probably an O/U, just like the one you were going to buy yourself - at least that was what happened to me.

[TRAP55]

http://www.remington.com/pdfs/trap_fundamentals_2004.pdf

[ysr_racer]

I wouldn't start out with trap. Station 1 on skeet is a better place to start.

Throwing hand held targets isn't too good either because they're not repeatable presentations.

I'm not an expert, but I know the basics. Let's meet up some time.

But first conduct a test to check her eye dominance.

Take an 8x10 blank sheet of paper. Cut a hole in the center of it about the size of a dime. Hold it up at arms length and look at a distant target with both eyes open.

Now close your left eye. If you still see the target, you're right eye dominant. If you don't see the target, continue on.

Open both eyes. Next close your right eye. If you see the target, you're left eye dominant.

If you can't see the target with either eye closed, you have center dominance.

Next read this:

When you play baseball, do you look at the bat or the ball? With 1 eye or 2?

When you play golf, do you look at the club head or the ball? With 1 eye or 2?

When you play tennis, do you look at the racket or the ball? With 1 eye or 2?

When you merge onto the freeway, do you look at the hood of your car or where you want to go ? 1 eye or 2?

Are you starting to see a pattern here?

Look at your target and your brain will do the rest. Yes, I know, it’s not for everybody, but give it a try.

Now onto something else. After you hit the ball with the (bat, club, racket) do you stop dead in your tracks, or do you follow thru?

You follow thru.

Same thing in shooting clays, if you stop the gun, you probably shot behind the target.

[Millions-Knives]

I wouldn't start out with trap. Station 1 on skeet is a better place to start.

Throwing hand held targets isn't too good either because they're not repeatable presentations.

I'm not an expert, but I know the basics. Let's meet up some time.

+1

Brad just started showing me the ropes. Great guy to shoot with.

[bowfin]

+ 2 on the hand thrown birds. They can be tricky for neophytes because of the repeatability issue.

When we run Hunter's Safety Courses, we set the trap to do straightaways only.