This comprehensive and practical manual includes all you need to know about shooting sporting clays. Written by two highly skilled sporting clays shooters, this book covers the 15 basic target types and strategies for breaking them; gun swing and speed for the 3 main swing types – swing through, sustained lead and pull away; how to choose a pump gun, autoloader, side-by-side, or over-and-under, and check, weight, balance and fit; the correct stance for the target speed and trajectory; understanding lead; how to fix common mistakes including lifting your head and stopping or slowing the gun as you shoot; practicing on skeet and 5-stand courses and lastly preparing for competition. An extremely useful guide.
About the Author
Mark Brannon is an NRA-certified shotgun instructor and a National Sporting Clays Association Master class shooter and a member of the 2009 NSCA Zone 1 Open all-star team. He serves as the national delegate from Maine for the NSCA and lives in Maine, USA. Tom Hanrahan lives in Maine, USA and is a past member of the Maine All State Sporting Clays team. He is also the author of Your Maine Lands: Reflections of a Maine Guide (ISBN 978-1-882190-91-1) and a columnist for the Northwoods Sporting Journal.