This section is for the ladies who, for all these years have been told to be three feet in front of the bird. Now, you guys all know what that means, but we ladies don’t have the foggiest notion of what that means.
“Do you mean that you put that little bead three feet in front of the bird? Then why do you always tell me I am behind? I keep putting that bead three feet in front.” This is the way the dialogue goes until one of the people in this conversation becomes very frustrated – if not both of you.
Guys, don’t tell the ladies to be three feet in front. All you have told her to do is to look at that “miss me” bead and put it 3 feet in front. Most of the time she will literally put three feet of lead on the bird, which is actually about 15 feet at the distance where the bird is.
Women see lead in terms of inches at the barrel, not feet at the bird. That does not mean that they look at the barrel. It just means that their sight picture is taken in reference to the barrel. They don’t see lead like you guys do, so please make this easier on yourselves and them and tell them to be “this far in front” (fingers an inch apart).
Ladies, so that you will understand what the guys are saying and see the picture, put two targets on the ground that are three feet apart. Step back 20 yards and hold the gun up on one of the targets and look back to the other one – that’s what three feet looks like. We all learn in pictures. This is the picture to remember for all those “three-foot leads.”
Remember, it’s a guy thing. When we are teaching people how to shoot a teal target, we tell the ladies to look at the bottom of the target then go to it and pull the trigger. The guys we tell to look at the top of the target. It’s just one of the many different ways that women and men look at things. What is important for everyone is to look at just the target and move to the front edge of it and let the gun go where it wants to. It will go to the front automatically and stay in front as long as you keep looking at only the target.
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