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Dove, duck, quail and pheasant: taking your clay-range skills into the field.

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Overcoming Muzzle Awareness

We have often wondered why some people find it is so hard to learn wing or clay shooting and others don’t. The other day,

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Expectation vs Preparation

In the past year, we have done quite a few seminars for the state Department of Natural Resources to help their Hunter Education leaders

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Warming Up for Wingshooting Season

You can’t start too early getting ready for wingshooting season. We recommend that you get that gun out of the closet and begin mounting

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Necessary Change

Necessary Change  There are two things that we explain and change in our competitive shooters’ approach to higher scores and wingshooters’ ability to be

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Driven Shooting Challenges

Every year we configure our training area to accommodate shooters who are going on driven shoots around the world. Whether in the UK for

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It Becomes What You Make It!

It is about mid-year for us as we write this. While our hunting seasons are still a couple of months off, we have just

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Shooting Flushing Birds: Pre-Hunt Preparation

While many things need to be done before a hunt for big game, there are several that should be done before a wing shooting

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Improving Consistency on Ducks and Pigeons

We began our last discussion on getting better at passing shots. And we say “began” because the passing shot is deemed the most difficult shot

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Getting Better at Incoming/Passing Birds

So for the last two segments, we have been talking about shooting the flushing or outgoing birds. We have discussed the importance of understanding

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In the Field Tips: Shooting Flushing Birds

This will be the first in a series to talk about technique in shooting the different presentations that one would face in shooting Game

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A New Beginning…Game Birds of The World

This is the beginning of a new series of articles on how to approach getting ready to hunt the different game birds of the

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Tips for High Volume Hunts

On a recent high-volume dove safari to La Zenaida Lodge near Cordoba, Argentina, several lessons were learned by everyone in our group. We felt eager

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Practice for Goose Season: Sit on It!

Getting ready for goose season? Gil offers this practice tip: SIT ON IT! Get a five-gallon bucket, turn it over, and sit on it.

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Q&A: “What is a good age to start a child out shooting?”

I have an 8-year-old that I want to take hunting. What is a good age to start a child out shooting? ***The age of

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When to Take a Hunting Shooting Lesson

As hunting season comes, here’s a little reminder of when to take a shooting lesson. We have so many people who call us three

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A Good Problem

We just got an email from longtime friend and customer Russ Bourquein about meeting him in Hondo, Texas to shoot some white-winged doves. He

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A First Gun: Part 1

We get this question a lot: “I want to buy my son [daughter, wife, grandson, granddaughter] a shotgun and was thinking about a 20

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A day with Cadillac Jack

I met Jack Horseman a few years ago while giving Bill Bell a shooting lesson at American Shooting Centers in Houston, Texas. He brought

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See You at the U.S. Open!

As of June 1, it’s 92 days until dove season. Shooting a shotgun is probably the furthest thing away from your mind. Your thought processes

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“Mas Vale Tarde Que Nunca”

It’s August. I realize the last thing you want to do is to go out to your local clay target range and shoot targets.

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A View from the River

Upon arrival, we were stunned at the well-groomed front yard. In fact, as far as one could see the grass was groomed and the trees

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A Hunting Gun for Eric

As teachers of shotgunning, people frequently ask Vicki and me what kind of gun they should get for their son, daughter, or wife. The typical

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Building Consistency and Slowing the Targets Down

Ever wonder why when you are shooting clay targets, the targets seem to be so slow when your buddy is shooting them? Then when you

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Don’t Be Looking Down That Barrel!

You have done it. Every wingshooter has. You’re sitting in a dove field, and someone yells, “over you!” Without thinking, you look at the

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