Shooting Sporting Clays

15 basic target types and strategies for breaking them.

Mastering Sporting Clays is a perfect guide for all levels of sporting clays shooters, from recreational to competitor. Beginner and novice shooters learn essential first steps, including an easy to remember set of fundamentals and, equally important, a system for recalling those fundamentals. Advanced shooters, including competitive shooters, will benefit from target-specific tactics, allowing them to focus on improving their problem areas.

An illustrated guide to the fundamentals of shooting trap and skeet Tips on gear, ammunition, safety, storage, shooting stance, and more Includes step-by-step instructions on how to clean a shotgun The sport of trap and skeet shooting is described in detail for the beginning or experienced shooter. Includes instructions on how to safely handle firearms, load and unload shotguns, determine dominant eye, swing toward the target, follow through, and more. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate how to successfully participate in these traditional shotgun sports. Complete with a chapter on gear to get started, this easy-to-use guide covers everything from choosing and transporting a shotgun to setting a stance and ultimately breaking the clays.

Sporting clay shooters are constantly striving for consistency. Move, Mount, Shoot describes the maintained lead method, an easily learned technique which will help both novice and expert alike achieve spectacular results. The book also examines the importance of mental preparation, . and includes advice on choosing a gun and equipment. Move, Mount, Shoot is the only comprehensive manual of this winning technique.

* Foreword by Anthony I. Matarese Jr., 14-time NSCA All-American * 15 basic target types and strategies for breaking them * Gun swing and speed for the 3 main swing types: swing-through, sustained lead, and pull-away * How to choose a pump gun, autoloader, side-by-side, or over-and-under, and check weight, balance, and fit* Understanding lead * How to fix common mistakes, including lifting your head and stopping or slowing the gun as you shoot * Practicing on skeet and 5-stand courses and preparing for competition Mark Brannon is an NRA-certified shotgun instructor and a National Sporting Clays Association Master class shooter and a member of the 2009 NSCA Zone 1 Open all-star team. He serves as the national delegate from Maine for the NSCA and lives in Durham, Maine. Tom Hanrahan lives in Whitefield, Maine, and is a past member of the Maine All State Sporting Clays team. He is also the author of Your Maine Lands: Reflections of a Maine Guide (978-1-882190-91-1) and a columnist for the Northwoods Sporting Journal.

Detailed how-to information on shooting trap, skeet, sporting clays, and many of the informal clay-target games.