Shooting lessons

[ahlangle]

Looking for a shooting lesson in Lafayette area.
I've found two places on Google, but wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions.
Just had one of those hunts where I couldn't seem to hit a thing. Whiffed on a pair of specks hanging over the decoys and decided that's the last straw, gotta get some help!

[CAMP CANARD]

Get your Gun fitted first before you invest in Lessons.
More often than not that is the issue.

[SHORT SHANK]

GOL Sporting Clays in Maurice. Ask for Mr. Hawk

[Baychamp1]

Go pattern your gun first, then go to a local gun club that has a skeet range and bring 3 boxes of shells. Your smart enough to figure out if your not looking down your rib, shooting high or low or not swinging thru your target, you don't need lessons, this ain't golf dude u got a scatter gun

[Juciy]

Go get an eye exam...seriously. I would start there.


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[Matt G]

Check your choke. I was stinking it up for the better part of the season, then realized I had my improved choke in. Changed it to modified and went from horribly embarrassing shooting to just bad shooting. Lol

[B-Stealth]

Have you tried?

Moving your barrel sticker to the other side.

Different color face paint.

Shoot more expensive shells, anything less than $15/box will not work.

Buy an expensive aftermarket choke.

Shoot a Benelli.




Or just bring more shells and enjoy the hunt, practice makes perfect.

[ahlangle]

Hahaha maybe I'll just ask one of those guys for some help.
I'm enjoying getting to hunt a lot more this year, and as such have noticed some areas I need to improve on. After 20 years of just being glad to be there, I'd like to understand the dynamics of shooting and be able to do it better.
Great info, and I'll take any more available, thanks guys.

[Quackhead62]

You may be cross eye dominant. I noticed I was a few years back and shooting with both eyes open was a very big help. It just takes some getting use too after being trained to close your off eye for so long.


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[B-Stealth]

Originally Posted by ahlangle

Hahaha maybe I'll just ask one of those guys for some help.
I'm enjoying getting to hunt a lot more this year, and as such have noticed some areas I need to improve on. After 20 years of just being glad to be there, I'd like to understand the dynamics of shooting and be able to do it better.
Great info, and I'll take any more available, thanks guys.

Lol,

I didn't know I had a depth perception issue until I failed an eye-exam an few years ago. I have learned to modify my shooting a little; a bird coming at me fast is difficult for me. I have learned to wait until the bird is above me if that makes sense.

[lil bubba]

I had an older winchester semi auto plain barrel that I was shooting a foot high at 30 yards...I got a snap on fiber optic sight and problem solved...My h&r 12 single is the same for me...The fiber optic sight took care of it too...It makes you lower the front the barrel thus shooting lower...I am left handed but I shoot right handed , I don't know if that has anything to do with it...I had a pump with rib and had to put rifle sights on it...Also I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some woodworking skills but when I purchased a youth model for my grandson I noticed how well the short stock fit me...I took 7/8 inch off my pump and the handling was 100% better...Since then every gun I own has been cut 1/2 to 7/8 inch...

[marshmellow]

Hawk over at GOL & I believe Wilderness has an instructor as well

[swd814]

Do the simple stuff first.
1. Shoot a gun that fits. How do you know if it fits or not? That's the tricky part. Simple way is to pick a spot on a wall, focus hard on the spot. Close your eyes and shoulder mount the gun. Open your eyes. Are you looking directly down the barrel at the spot you were aiming at? If so the gun is probably pretty close. If not, the stock may be too long or short, or the comb too high or low. That's when you need more expert advice, someone to look at you and your gun to check for fit. Of course that's assuming you have a consistent gun mount. You practice your gun mount, don't you? You can look online for gun mount drills, and I can assure you that if you practice gun mount with a gun that fits your shooting WILL get better. My favorite is one from OSP (Gil and Mary Ash in Houston). If you have a 12 ga shotgun a AA Maglite fits perfectly in the barrel. Tape it in place so it doesn't move. Turn it on, aim it at that spot on the wall, and keeping the light pointed directly at the spot mount your gun. Don't let the light move off the spot you're focusing on. Do that 50 or 100 times a day and when your gun comes up it will be pointing exactly where you're looking.
2. Get a gun that fits
3. Then practice, practice, practice........

[ahlangle]

Thanks guys