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(Goal Setting, Continued from page 4) Keeping a logbook of all practice and tournament performances will aid you in monitoring both internal and cumulative-effort goals during the shooting season. Items to note in the logbook might include daily practice goals, (such as working on problem targets), the resolution/outcome of daily practice goals, date/time, shooting location, lighting and weather conditions, squad mates, etc. Your logbook will soon become a piece of your shooting gear and part of your pre and post-shoot routine. In summary, tournament clay-shooting improvement relies heavily on planning, organization, motivation and effort. How much would you like to improve?? Until next time, Good Shooting! Ben
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Shooting Clinics |
Intermediate Skeet Clinic Scheduled At New Pioneer Gun Club |
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Ben Berka of Double A Shooting Instruction will be conducting an Intermediate Skeet Clinic May 28 and 29 at the New Pioneer Gun Club. This clinic should be of interest to both recreational and registered skeet shooters who would like to improve |
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Target Tactics |
Sporting Specialties: Strategies for Battues |
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Battue targets (pronounced “ba-too”) are the same diameter as the standard trap or skeet target but are very thin and lack a dome. Battues are typically presented as crossing shots and when initially launched, only the thin edge of the target is visible to the shooter. As the target loses velocity, it will turn |
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broadside and start to plummet back to the ground, usually showing “full face” to the shooter. Ideally, the shot is taken just after the target turns and before it starts it’s rapid descent back to Earth. Due to their thin nature, battues are very brittle targets compared to their domed counterparts and can be well broken at surprisingly long ranges. Let’s examine a few reasons why battues are missed and how to avoid missing them on future sporting layouts. Reason #1 |
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Battues (left) are much |
