Condor Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 I can't get down to a shooting ground in between weekend shoots but am desperately keen to improve.....I do dry mounting practice in the week but am wondering if there is a more accurate way of making the dry mounting practice of more value. I starting shooting a few months ago, rather later in life than I had aimed for, but hey, at least it happened Am having regular coaching sessions every fortnight or so, yet to shoot a comp though as I find I'm just not consistent enough to have the confidence to venture out to one. I know we all have better days and lousy days shooting, but I can shoot 20/25 skeet one day and 10 the next. Same with Sporting - can straight the same stands that I cannot hit a week later. Very frustrated as I really want to improve a bit and achieve a bit more consistency - any ideas which may help me improve? I've improved my kit steadily over the months, started out with an inexpensive starter gun which didn't fit very well and I swopped over to a very nice Browning Ultra XS Prestige 30" 12g Adj fitted to me; next thing were the specs: as I use prescription lenses, I found the cheap Top Gun kit a bit of a problem with optical distortion and misting up even with anti-fog spray, so made the investment in Hidefspex which are great. Can't fault the kit now, I guess you get what you pay for, but I just need to improve to a point where I'm reasonably consistent instead of amazing one day and dreadful the next time out. I'd appreciate advice from the experienced shooters out there..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigweed Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 I can't get down to a shooting ground in between weekend shoots but am desperately keen to improve.....I do dry mounting practice in the week but am wondering if there is a more accurate way of making the dry mounting practice of more value. I starting shooting a few months ago, rather later in life than I had aimed for, but hey, at least it happened Am having regular coaching sessions every fortnight or so, yet to shoot a comp though as I find I'm just not consistent enough to have the confidence to venture out to one. I know we all have better days and lousy days shooting, but I can shoot 20/25 skeet one day and 10 the next. Same with Sporting - can straight the same stands that I cannot hit a week later. Very frustrated as I really want to improve a bit and achieve a bit more consistency - any ideas which may help me improve? I've improved my kit steadily over the months, started out with an inexpensive starter gun which didn't fit very well and I swopped over to a very nice Browning Ultra XS Prestige 30" 12g Adj fitted to me; next thing were the specs: as I use prescription lenses, I found the cheap Top Gun kit a bit of a problem with optical distortion and misting up even with anti-fog spray, so made the investment in Hidefspex which are great. Can't fault the kit now, I guess you get what you pay for, but I just need to improve to a point where I'm reasonably consistent instead of amazing one day and dreadful the next time out. I'd appreciate advice from the experienced shooters out there..... I found that going to as many different shoots as possible starts to pay dividends and have a noticed a marked improvement (well i think so anyway but sure some would disagree). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 (edited) Same with Sporting - can straight the same stands that I cannot hit a week later. Very frustrated as I really want to improve a bit and achieve a bit more consistency - any ideas which may help me improve? These may not be the same You're probably shooting them from memory, doing what you did last time. Problem is, they may have tweaked the traps, slightly faster or slower, or angles slightly different. I used to do this a lot, but now I've got a bit better at looking at what I'm shooting at and not just doing what I did last time. It's not easy, because it's a bit instinctive if you shoot the same ground all the time. This is why I also agree with Bigweed. Getting out and about to more different grounds helped me to stop doing this, as everything was always new and needed looking at carefully before shooting. Edited July 7, 2009 by Chard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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