Dave McCracken
December 29, 2004, 07:05 PM
Vicki and Gil Ash are shotgun instructors in Texas. That's like describing Michaelangelo as a painter of chapel ceilings.
"If It Ain't Broke, Fix It" is the title of a book they wrote. It's subtitled "Lessons In Shotgunning(and Life)". Sound interesting?
Does it sound more interesting when I mention that Bob Brister endorses it?
For those coming in late, the septagenarian Brister wrote the definitive work on shotguns in 1976, and still kicks major butt on the SC circuit as a Super Vet. Other endorsements include some All Americans and big names in the SC world.
Anyway, I got a copy of the book not long ago and read it through in a night. I've then read it through another three times or so, finding new stuff each time.
Gil and Vicki are who I want to be when I grow up. Fine shooters and instructors who think way out of the box.
Some of the stuff is familiar to me. Stuff I've mentioned here like dry mounts at home, focussing on the very front molecule of a clay or bird, and the need to shoot lots.
Some is new, and their flashlight drills are the obvious step beyond what we've ranted about here before. And, they managed to finally pound through my head the differences in mounting for a crossing shot and a quartering one.
Buy this book to find out more, they deserve compensation for their work.
$40 plus shipping will be the best investment you can make, outside of ammo.
For the price of an aftermarket choke tube, you tap into Olympic level instruction. Well worth it. And, their style of writing has much humor in it.
"He's so tense if you fed him coal he'd make a diamond" is an example.
While their orientation is towards sporting clays, this has worth in any of the clay sports and wingshooting.
Check out their website at ospschool.com.....
"If It Ain't Broke, Fix It" is the title of a book they wrote. It's subtitled "Lessons In Shotgunning(and Life)". Sound interesting?
Does it sound more interesting when I mention that Bob Brister endorses it?
For those coming in late, the septagenarian Brister wrote the definitive work on shotguns in 1976, and still kicks major butt on the SC circuit as a Super Vet. Other endorsements include some All Americans and big names in the SC world.
Anyway, I got a copy of the book not long ago and read it through in a night. I've then read it through another three times or so, finding new stuff each time.
Gil and Vicki are who I want to be when I grow up. Fine shooters and instructors who think way out of the box.
Some of the stuff is familiar to me. Stuff I've mentioned here like dry mounts at home, focussing on the very front molecule of a clay or bird, and the need to shoot lots.
Some is new, and their flashlight drills are the obvious step beyond what we've ranted about here before. And, they managed to finally pound through my head the differences in mounting for a crossing shot and a quartering one.
Buy this book to find out more, they deserve compensation for their work.
$40 plus shipping will be the best investment you can make, outside of ammo.
For the price of an aftermarket choke tube, you tap into Olympic level instruction. Well worth it. And, their style of writing has much humor in it.
"He's so tense if you fed him coal he'd make a diamond" is an example.
While their orientation is towards sporting clays, this has worth in any of the clay sports and wingshooting.
Check out their website at ospschool.com.....
