Join us for Episode 3 of the Master Sporting Clay Series! In this episode, Jonny Carter (TGS Outdoors) and Josh Brown (CPSA Course Setter of the Year) break down techniques for shooting crossing targets with greater accuracy and consistency.
Jonny and Josh explore different shooting techniques – swing-through, pull-away, maintained lead, and discuss how to find the move that is most repeatable for you. In English Sporting Clays, hitting the same target 4 to 5 times requires a highly consistent approach, and they’ll show you how to identify the technique that best suits your style. You’ll also get in-depth insights into:
– Timing: Learn the optimal timing from hold point, to a fully mounted gun in your shoulder, to the kill point.
– Foot Positioning: See how subtle adjustments in foot positioning can impact your kill point.
– Adjusting for Range: Josh and Jonny tackle crossing targets at varying distances, from 25-30 yards to 45-50 yards, and discuss how distance affects the shooting method you use.
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17 Comments
wow!
Priceless insight..
Josh Brown is simply amazing.
George digweed says you need to be side on, Josh says left feet sqaure to the kill point, I'm confused. And where does josh brown rest his visual point please?
First thing I learned when I started. Positioning of shooters feet, influences 90 % off the quality of the shot.
Greetings from the Netherlands. Martin. Multiple former Dutch team champion.
I wish we had more sound clay-shooting instruction here in the States. I paid a hefty fee to a coach last time, who insisted that I shoot every bird with maintained lead and would not just give me feedback on how I was shooting. Perry P., SoCal, USA
Great job Josh. Short video but detailed comments very well. Thanks !!
Jonny get your feet right ,I do the same thing it's easy for me to slip and have your feet wrong.
Really enjoy these little lessons, Really useful.
The two boys do a great job pretending that Johnny doesn't know where to put his feet so that the video works 🙂 The series so far is really very good.
Tail belly beak and keep going
10:00 – 10:20 agreed
Jonny where can I get that shooting vest you use?
He has a bad habit of rolling the gun before the mount. Looks very odd on the shotcam.
Your right arm seems very high?
It seems to me that the young man coaching is very knowledgeable indeed. I think he could or should have addressed the particularly bad habits you've picked up early on in your shooting career.
As @gordonfrigaard6521 stated, you do have that particularly negative habit of rolling the gun as well as pulling it into the shoulder all while pulling back until your shoulder distends. The problem isn't necessarily that you do this, it's much more of a problem when you do it. You do all these unnecessary movements immediately prior to taking the line of the bird when, the mount should be completed at that critical time.
I've seen these kinds of habits where the shooter learns to shoot gun up & develops all manner of nervous set-up routines.
If you want to clean your gun mount up, shoot a couple months of normal skeet but, ISSF style starting the gun from the hip. It's how I started & it eliminates all the nonsense as you take the line of the target.
Good video though, very enjoyable.
Glad to see I'm not the only one "canting" the gun… Only difference is… you're breaking the targets! 😂