Hints on shooting clays

[Harry Collins]

Calvin,

The left barrel is most often the tighter barrel fired with the rear trigger. The front trigger most often fires the right barrel and it has less choke and a more open pattern. If I'm shooting at a going away target or a long target I will shoot the left barrel at it. Often you will have a crosser as first target and a going away or quartering taget as the second. In this case I will shoot front trigger (right barrel) rear trigger (left barrel). If the first bird is a long one or going away and the second is a crosser I will pull the rear trigger first. One of the main points of shooting a SXS is you have an option in what pattern you want to send up to hopfully meet with a target.

This I've picked this up over a lifetime of shootins SXS's and is second nature to me. It's best not to confuse the issue and "Just Pull The Trigger"!

You don't look at your hands when you are catching a ball. Look at the ball.

Don't look at the gun. Look at the target.

Don't measure or second guess yourself on a target. Be smooth, keep swinging and just pull the trigger!

Harry