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Making Every Shot Count
I’m constantly reminding students that they should make every shot count – in competition, certainly, but also during training sessions. Let’s first define wha...
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Simplifying Your Mental Game
If I had to guess, I’d say that more shooters have asked me about the mental game than any other facet of our sport. It doesn’t matter if it’s someone trying t...
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Sweating The Small Stuff
Our game is far from easy. There are so many little things that we have to remember and do consistently if we want to perform to our potential, and it’s easy t...
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This and That
Here is an assortment of small topics that have arisen during lessons over the past couple of years. Most can be answered quickly and don’t require an entire a...
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Setting Up and Mounting Your Gun
Instructor's Page The gun mount is the way you get your shotgun’s barrels underneath your shooting eye as directly and efficiently as possible. It’s as simple a...
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Why I Use Swing-Through
Instructor's Page Ever since I’ve started shooting clay targets, I’ve shot swing-through – starting behind the target and pulling the trigger as or soon after y...
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Don’t Take The Easy Way Out
Instructor's Page Not long ago, I had a conversation with a good friend whom I consider one of the best shooters in the country, but isn’t shooting to his poten...
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Finding Your Balance
Instructor's Page If you know me, you know I put 100 percent effort into everything – my family, my teaching, my shooting, and offshore fishing. It’s how I’m wi...
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Questions and Answers
Instructor's Page Here is an assortment of questions I’ve received through my website or social media. Though the questions came from individuals, the issues ar...
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Is Clay Pigeon Shooting a Good Step Toward Becoming a Hunter?
Instructor's Page Without question. If you're going to go hunting, you need a certain proficiency because you're going to be shooting live animals and birds. At...
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How Much Does it Cost to Shoot Clay Targets?
Instructor's Page Clay target shooting costs as much or as little as you're prepared to put into it. It's not a cheap sport, but nothing is nowadays. The price...
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How to Score Clay Target Shooting?
Instructor's Page In formal clay target shooting, targets are presented either as pairs or singles. In a true pair, two targets are launched simultaneously; in...
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How to Shoot Sporting Clays?
Instructor's Page Sporting clays originally was designed to replicate the flight of live game birds to help hunters become better shots. It’s now a game unto it...
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I want to get into Skeet Shooting. How should I go about it?
Instructor's Page Skeet is wonderful either for competition or practice, and I suggest that everybody who wants to shoot clay targets should start on a skeet la...
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Is Trap Easier than Skeet?
Instructor's Page This question is asked often. Let’s stipulate that we are not referring to the international versions of trap and skeet but rather the more co...
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Trap Shooting, Skeet Shooting, Sporting Clays or Helice?
Instructor's Page In trap, targets are launched from an oscilatting trap and fly away from the shooters, who stand 16 yards away or further. A round of trap con...
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What are the Best Chokes For Sporting Clays?
Instructor's Page This is very subjective. The best chokes for sporting clays are the chokes that let you hit the most targets. I personally use full and full c...
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What are the Best Clay Target Shotguns?
Instructor's Page The best shotguns for clays are the ones that suit you and suit your budget. If you're starting to learn how to shoot clays, go out and get th...
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What Chokes Should I Use For Clay Pigeon Shooting?
Instructor's Page The chokes you use are based on the discipline that you're shooting. If you're shooting skeet, shoot open chokes. If you're shooting trap, sho...
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What Guns do Olympic Trap Shooters Use?
Instructor's Page Probably by far the biggest gun that Olympic trap shooters use is Perazzi. Without question, the family has prided itself on totally dedicatin...
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What is Sporting Clays?
Instructor's Page Sporting clays was created to replicate the flight of game birds and to give hunters a way to learn how to shoot before going hunting. Unlike...
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What is the Best Gauge for Sporting Clays and Why?
Instructor's Page I'm not sure that there is a specific gauge for sporting clays. If the amount of shot you're shooting is the same as the next person, the gaug...
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What is the Best Gun for Skeet Shooting?
Instructor's Page Yet again, whatever gun you choose to use at skeet will be far more accurate than you will be. I see people who shoot skeet with ÂŁ1,000 guns,...
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What is the Best Shot Size for Trap Shooting?
Instructor's Page Obviously, you're shooting a target that's going away, and because of that your pellets won’t strike the clay as hard as they do when you’re s...
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What is the Difference Between a Trap Gun and a Sporter?
Instructor's Page A trap gun is predominantly used for going-away targets that are rising. You need to be looking down the barrel in such a way that you’re comi...
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Which Barrel Length is Best for Sporting Clay?
Instructor's Page The barrel length that is best for sporting clay is based on the shooter’s size and stature., I'm quite a big character, so I shoot a 32-inch...
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Why are Clay Targets Called Pigeons?
Instructor's Page Years ago, people used to shoot real live pigeons out of boxes. When people decided to stop doing that, they tried to find an artificial targe...
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Digweed's Gun Selection
Instructor's Page I suppose I’m known as an over/under shooter, as I’ve used one for almost all of my sporting career. But I didn’t always shoot a Perazzi, whi...
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George Digweed's Range Bag
Instructor's Page By and large, shooters in the UK carry far fewer gadgets, gizmos, and trinkets than our friends in the United States, and I’m no exception. We...
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How George Digweed Learned to Shoot
Instructor's Page Like many of you, I started shooting as a boy, beginning with an air rifle and graduating later to a .410. My mentor – and I guess, the only...
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Hold Point
Instructor's Page The term “hold point” is one of the most commonly used phrases in all of sporting clays. In simple terms, the hold point that a shooter select...
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Soft Focus
Instructor's Page Naturally, we want to have our best focus the moment we pull the trigger on a shot. Unfortunately, the human eye can only maintain hard focus...
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Developing a Practice Regimen
Instructor's Page Any practice is better than no practice at all. I believe that and I teach that. But unless you have unlimited time and money, you had better...
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Planning for Maximum Performance
Instructor's Page The NSCA calendar is similar every year – early events in Florida, Arizona, and other warm states; transitioning in spring and summer to state...
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Practice and Training
Instructor's Page Students often ask me, “Geez, I know how to hit that bird, and I hit it the first time. Why can’t I hit it four times in a row?” In many cases...
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Shooting Well vs. Scoring Well
Instructor's Page Not long ago I had a group of students in for a daylong seminar. As always, I began the day by asking them to discuss briefly their issues so...
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Goals and Expectations
I’m a huge believer in setting goals, but it’s just as important to manage your expectations as you chase those goals. That’s how you keep yourself on track and...
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Nerves
Instructor's Page You might think that after more than 120,000 registered targets and who knows how many tournaments, I wouldn’t get nervous. But at times, I do...
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Own Your Performance
Instructor's Page The scene was a local competition, and I was talking with two very good shooters. Both had the experience and skill to compete at the top leve...
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Finding the Last Few Birds
As your shooting improves, you should reevaluate and reset your goals, and over time you may find that the last few birds you need to reach your goal are the ha...
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