Most bird hunters come to the sporting clays ranges thinking that they will just tune up for the hunt. What happens is that they hardly ever do really well at clays. They walk away frustrated and making remarks about their lineage when all they need to do is to understand the reason.
Bird hunters crash and burn on the clays course because their eyes do not maintain focus on the clay target. On a live bird, their eyes will naturally go to the fastest moving thing on the bird – the wings. Then their eyes can move to the head of the bird and put the barrel where the bird is going.