Snarlingiron
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A friend and I took Mike McAlpine's one day clinic Friday before last. Mike suggested some good practice routines for the Skeet range.
Here's what we did. First, we shot a round of skeet starting on Station 1 as usual. However, whenever we missed, we had to shoot until we broke the missed target 5 times in succession. We each shot about 75 rounds on that round, but man, will that tune you up. I got the idea from a tip on the Gil and Vickey Ash website. They were saying that if you are going to get good on sporting clays, you have to get used to shooting 10 of the same targets in a row.
Next round we shot only doubles. Stations 1, 2, 6 and 7 were no big deal, but 3, 4 and 5 are a real challenge. We shot low house first as we rotated from 1 to 7, and then we rotated from 7 to 1 shooting high house first.
Man what a workout. I learned a lot. I CAN adjust my break point and hit the target about 2/3rds of the way to the center stake using the Diminishing Sustained Lead technique that Mike taught us. I can move fast enough to shoot the second target.
The sporting clays league was being shot this evening, so we stuck to the skeet range, but next week, we will hit the sporting clays range and shoot our most challenging targets until we hit 10 in a row.
This kind of challenging practice should get me up to my goal of mid to upper 70's. I am shooting mid 60's now.
What do you guys do to challenge yourselves?
Here's what we did. First, we shot a round of skeet starting on Station 1 as usual. However, whenever we missed, we had to shoot until we broke the missed target 5 times in succession. We each shot about 75 rounds on that round, but man, will that tune you up. I got the idea from a tip on the Gil and Vickey Ash website. They were saying that if you are going to get good on sporting clays, you have to get used to shooting 10 of the same targets in a row.
Next round we shot only doubles. Stations 1, 2, 6 and 7 were no big deal, but 3, 4 and 5 are a real challenge. We shot low house first as we rotated from 1 to 7, and then we rotated from 7 to 1 shooting high house first.
Man what a workout. I learned a lot. I CAN adjust my break point and hit the target about 2/3rds of the way to the center stake using the Diminishing Sustained Lead technique that Mike taught us. I can move fast enough to shoot the second target.
The sporting clays league was being shot this evening, so we stuck to the skeet range, but next week, we will hit the sporting clays range and shoot our most challenging targets until we hit 10 in a row.
This kind of challenging practice should get me up to my goal of mid to upper 70's. I am shooting mid 60's now.
What do you guys do to challenge yourselves?
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