Learned a better technique that made a huge difference

[Tallship]

Interesting approach, I've always done the whole, aiming at the trap house 'till the clay comes out, technique. Shot plenty of 24/25 and 25/25 rounds doing it, but what works for one may not work for another. I think I'll try the relaxed to ready technique you described next time I go out, sounds like fun!

Turo, sounds to me like they are shooting skeet. I've some some of the skeet shooters get into the most contorted positions I've ever seen. Saw one old guy almost knock himself over trying to hit the overhead bird out of the high house. Trap shooters are much more cool and coordinated.

[tziggs]

Good info. I've never done my clay shooting like this. Even though I shoot a pretty good percentage with the "point first, then yell pull", I'm interested in trying this new way. Does anybody have a video of what it looks like? I can't quite imagine it with the written description.

[Olav]

[al g blenny]

I recently started shooting that way too, feels way better. My extremely gay brother-in-law stands there in some sort of tactical stance waiting for the clay to fly and always misses. He always tells me I'm doing it wrong because thats not how you would clear your house if you ever needed. And then when I ask him why he keeps missing he blames his gun (Spartan 310 O/U). He only listens to his husband (a paint ball guy).

You could always let him use your gun to prove his gun has nothing to do with it. Then again you might not want him touching it. Who knows what he will leave behind.

[alert1]

I'm also a newbie at trap and using point pull is very tiresome. I can't wait to try it out. Thanks for the info.

[BTF/PTM]

This thread turned awesome real quick. I really wanna see video if the extremely gay guy using his dog taking a crap stance while shooting skeet

I have had no experience clearing a house with any kind of gun before, but I think that the trick I learned would apply there, too. You wouldn't necessarily want a shotgun sticking way out in front of you while trying to stealth your way thru a home. Maybe not, like I said I have no training.

Anyway, glad my lil story gave some folks an idea. It really helped me a lot, I can't wait to go shooting again. Keeping the stock firmly tucked into my arm/shoulder with the barrel relaxed downward really helped keep the sights at eye level as the gun came up, too. Just like a pistol, gotta keep the sights right up at eye level to be accurate.

[BMC]

It all depends on the point of the discipline.
A person can shoot clays any way they like and whichever method they enjoy. The technique of posting with an unmounted gun then mounting on release and acquisition of the target is what is used in FITASC. The gun cannot be mounted (no cheek weld and not shouldered) prior to calling for the target. There are numerous kinds of trap "games" where the call bird is done so with an unmounted gun. The choices are endless really.
I am of the opinion that many people find mounting on the fly easier and more successful for them because it often removes the most common loss of targets in trap shooting....lifting your head. When mounting on the fly generally the process happens so quickly that by the time the gun is mounted and the shooter gets to the target then pulls the trigger, he didn't have time to lift his head. Cheek weld on the stock is the most important element to trapshooting, or any kind of clay shooting (excluding the hot shots who use Cylinder chokes and can shoot from the hip ).
It all boils down to what is your purpose of trapshooting. Most do it to just have fun and feel the power of recoil while burning through a few boxes of shells. I'm a competition trapshooter and I only know of one person who calls with an unmounted gun. He's a good shooter. With the few exceptions aside, there is a reason that tens of thousands of competitive trapshooters use the mounted gun fundemental which translates into quicker target acquisition and response time.

[ysr_racer]

I thought about staying out of this one, and I will

[acorn]

You could always let him use your gun to prove his gun has nothing to do with it. Then again you might not want him touching it. Who knows what he will leave behind.

Yeah thats the last thing I need is his husbands sh*t on my trigger, you don't know where his hands have been. He's grossly gay!

[dondo]

Yeah thats the last thing I need is his husbands sh*t on my trigger, you don't know where his hands have been. He's grossly gay!

Dude, I don't use my trigger finger for that kind of play.....thats gross. I use my thumbs for that. So your good on letting me borrow your new 870.

[BTF/PTM]

So, in laymans' terms...my technique is wrong?

It all depends on the point of the discipline.
A person can shoot clays any way they like and whichever method they enjoy. The technique of posting with an unmounted gun then mounting on release and acquisition of the target is what is used in FITASC. The gun cannot be mounted (no cheek weld and not shouldered) prior to calling for the target. There are numerous kinds of trap "games" where the call bird is done so with an unmounted gun. The choices are endless really.
I am of the opinion that many people find mounting on the fly easier and more successful for them because it often removes the most common loss of targets in trap shooting....lifting your head. When mounting on the fly generally the process happens so quickly that by the time the gun is mounted and the shooter gets to the target then pulls the trigger, he didn't have time to lift his head. Cheek weld on the stock is the most important element to trapshooting, or any kind of clay shooting (excluding the hot shots who use Cylinder chokes and can shoot from the hip ).
It all boils down to what is your purpose of trapshooting. Most do it to just have fun and feel the power of recoil while burning through a few boxes of shells. I'm a competition trapshooter and I only know of one person who calls with an unmounted gun. He's a good shooter. With the few exceptions aside, there is a reason that tens of thousands of competitive trapshooters use the mounted gun fundemental which translates into quicker target acquisition and response time.