Show HOW 0 L by bob nichols J ector bield and an rip novice in vi bluds JL it hard to believe that flint you must shoot ahead of filing or running targets in order to lilt hit them lie reasons that tile spew of tile shotgun charge is so fast that one ought to lie able to aim ahn dead on the target and lilt hit it lut but the fact of the matter is sou ou simply cant actually the speed of the shotgun charge Is not so very fast it is only about one third the speed of the llie modern ni high power rifle bullet in skeet shooting I 1 can frequently hear tho the shot charge strike the clay target after the report ot of the gun yet the speed of the shot cliare charge Is only part of the story in america shooting ahead ot of your target Is called leading it without intending to pun this term Is actually misleading leading a tact implies filming aiming out in front of the and swinging along to in this position until you judge you are far enough ahead of the target before firing this Is wrong the right way to do it Is to swing on the target from behind it swing on oil past it that Is ahead of it and shoot after you have passed it cut but make up your mind to shoot instantly as you swing ahead of the target instead of calling it leading the english gunners refer to tills this as fo forward nvard allow allowance rince A more re readily addy understood too d t term erm I 1 think forward allowance Is absolutely necessary not so much because it takes the shot charge a certain fraction of a second to travel 20 30 or 40 yards ni although though this time must be taken into account but mostly because it also takes time for your eye ese to register the impression of the target for your eye to tell your brain to shoots shoot for your brain to tell your trigger finger to pull for your trigger finger to snap homo home for the hammer to fall for the primer to explode the powder charge and send the slot shot I 1 hurtling on its way all tills takes if time in e very little to be sure but remember that the target standing still either the target may be traveling anywhere from yo 30 to 00 feet a second depending on whether its a rabbit or a cani canvasback canas back luck duck and your shot charge must start toward a point that Is ahead of the moving target and in its path only experience will teach y you au where tills this point is no other shooter can tell you exactly no two shooters function exactly alike in their muscular and denous reactions on the skeet feld to tile the tl best es t 0 of I 1 in mi 3 knowledge I 1 believe I 1 shoot at a point about three feet ahead of my targets on the crossing S shots and possibly only two feet or less on the quartering shots just as a tip to you I 1 will hazard the guess that at least SO 80 per cent of tile the targets missed in skeet are shot behind too far behind belil nd on a straightaway litaway running rabbit shoot under him shoot six indies under his bis hopping hite tall and tumble him every shot try a shot on the surface of a pond to see the reason for tills this notice that the shot charge strikes the water in a ten yard long pattern if aou ou shoot just slightly under tinder your straightaway rabbit ou cant miss on a rabbit running across dour hiir line of ure fire again shoot just a little low wid and at a point about three or four feet almead of him depending on how far he Is away from you that tho the ion longer ioner er the range on any game the farther ahead aou ou shoot and the faster the flight llight of any game the farther ahead you shoot on a famous long island ducking ground there Is in an old saying that if ten feet seem too much lead try twenty which in plain language only nic moans ans that we ne seldom miss our game by shooting too far alfend of it invariably we ie miss the target by shooting behind it good shots who are arc at all conscious of their movements in gun pointing till all agree that the best way to swing on a n moving target Is to come from behind the target and then at the instant tile gun swings past the target to let er go in fact that last bit of swing past the target and the trigger pull pill itself happen at almost the same instant como come from behind swing past ban bang I 1 nc acer er stop the swing of your gun follow through to stop your gun ris as pull trigg trigger or Is a fatal mistake even a hairline hair bair line instant pause moans means that your target has caught up with and passel passed your forward allowance and your shot charge goes behind for another miss 0 western newspaper union |