Instinctive ahooting

[Drew Hause]

Bill: there is almost as much mythology regarding shooting styles as with damascus barrels. Lots of information here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...3d3Eno/preview

Bottom line is that the gun must be pointed where you are looking, and where the target/bird is going, however one mounts the gun. "Instinctive shooting" usually implies letting our eye-hand coordination work, and that's a good thing.

[chris dawe]

I wholeheartedly agree with this ,a surprise bird more often then not gets put down ...walking up on a point expecting to raise a covey ? well, i'm better off carrying rocks than a gun!

[C grade]

I grew up as a bird hunter, mostly pheasant and latter quail. Walk through fields, low gun, focus on the bird and just shoot. When I got into sporting clays was taught to pre-mount, and follow the line of the target and pull through. That worked up to a point. I sought out an instructor to work with, John Higgins, and he converted my style back to shooting the way I hunt birds, instinctively. I have a low gun. hard focus on the bird. and just shoot. His instruction taught me that my mind knows how to hit the target so just focus on it and let my mind control the shot. It took a little while to convert back but my scores moved up 20% or so.
David