“What’s the target doing at our breakpoint?!” This is a crucial question in understanding what technique to use while planning for success. This week Karen and Gebben continue the laser series shooting targets below their feet, specifically a quartering clay that is quite deceiving! They talk about common mistakes made by shooters, how target setters purposely confuse us visually with what seems like a crossing targets, and how we actually read, plan, and execute a quarter pounding plan!

Gebben and Karen demonstrate shooting an incoming target below their feet in this episode. This is a commonly missed target due to the required move of precision in order to successfully break this clay. The edgey presentation gives visual challenges and stance adjustments, which are discussed with resolution specifically created when shooting angles below foot level. Draw length, timing, and attention to target line are extremely important and highlighted easily with the laser in this episode.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen take us through shooting a trap-like target under our feet. When shooting targets under your feet, remember it’s important to the narrow your stance and hinge more at the hips to create a counter balance. Both Gebben and Karen share with us some valuable information that will help you break any target under your feet.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen go in to depth about the importance of using your eyes correctly transitioning from one target to the next! Your peripheral vision is so powerful and so important in executing the 2nd shot in a pair.

They start with shoot a true pair with a fast quartering target and a slow incoming 70mm. This transition is from low to high, fast to slow and wide from left to right.

They also shoot this pair as a report pair with the 70mm first. This is slow to to fast, high to low, and from far right to far left.

In this episode Gebben and Karen teach us how to use our eyes to successfully break targets! They help us understand hard focus, soft focus, transitioning between the 1st shot and the 2nd shot and much more!

In this week’s episode, Gebben and Karen take us through a challenging transition shooting a long teal, true paired with a good looping crosser. As they shoot the teal going up, they will transition lower for the second target.

In this episode, Gavin and Karen walk us through what it looks like to have the proper amount of patience on a true pair. This presentation is a left to right crossing target paired with the right to left incomer. The descriptions they use to help us understand how to approach this pair of targets are wonderful and very detailed!

Which way is the right way?? Gebben and Karen take us through a true pair of left to right targets. They shoot it both ways (lead bird first and back bird first, showing us and helping us understand the pros and cons of taking each target first. This is a fun episode that’s full of golden information.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen describe in depth how they approach a true pair of trap targets that can be shot either way. It’s important to understand that these concepts apply to every type of trap shot.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen go in depth on the cut across move for a technical chondel target. They also help us learn how to shoot a big midi with lots of speed and some good distance. The background is very pretty background at Pine Ridge Farm and we can get lulled to sleep not paying attention to how far the tree line is.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen approach a downhill left or right looping crosser on report a right to left long rabbue. This is a very technical pair that needs to be approached properly. Notice how far under both of them start compared to the line of each target.

In this episode, Gebben and Karen shoot a very challenging and fun presentation of targets. The first target is a crosser right to left that is following a downward slope. The crosser has some good speed and distance to it. On report is a very fast teal at some distance as well. It’s important to break the first target just right of the line of the teal and not directly in line with and not too late in the flight as well. Hitting the correct break point is very important on this target to set us up for the 2nd shot.

The second shot is hard by itself so give yourself every opportunity for success.

In this episode Gebben and Karen talk us through a great pair of targets at a tournament station. This was the station from a monthly shoot at Pine Ridge Farm. There’s a big right to left battue that requires a cut across technique on report a really fast quartering target. On the quartering target, notice how both shooters actually stay in front of the quartering bird just because it’s so fast.

Gebben and Karen talk through three different target types; outgoing, incoming, and crossing, based on their set up and approach to breaking basic targets. They integrate the basic concepts they covered last week and give us further insight to what they do and why they’re doing it. One important thing to note, they do the exact same thing on all of the basic shots as they do every other shot. We never outgrow the need for perfecting basics.