Sporting Clays Shooting Methods : Part 4 in a Series of Clay Target Shooting Tips Just Released

Feb. 8, 2009 - PRLog -- Shooting Methods – Wise Choices – 2 of 4

We’re here again, talking about shooting methods. We’ve previously covered Maintained Lead and Swing-Through. This month we’ll cover Churchill, an old and controversial shooting method.

Few have been able to accurately describe this method and how it works. But it does work and it has its advantages.

Churchill, like swing-through, relies on increased gun speed. Some proponents and teachers of this method will tell you to shoot right at the target. Which, of course, we know won’t work. But, strangely, it does! Because of the gun speed in the swing. While others may disagree, experience has shown me that Churchill is a reliable close range method, often ideally suited to flushing game like grouse, quail, woodcock and some pheasant situations. There is a sense of touching the target or shooting right at it when you pull the trigger. That very real sense of touch, however, begins to leaves us as the target distance crosses the 30 yard line. Inside 30 yards, fine. Over 30 yards and the instinctive, more intuitive strength of this method begins to break down—quickly—with shotstrings disappearing behind the target.....

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"Shooting Methods – Wise Choices – 3 of 4" is Part 4 of an ongoing series of tips on shooting methods.  Over the next few months, each month we will focus on one method, why and where you might want to use it, and the strengths and weaknesses of each method.

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