Moving Targets

[cp1969]

How did you learn how to shoot moving targets?

I *think* I learned how by learning how to shoot moving game with a shotgun first.

 

[Alk8944]

Shooting trap is how the Army Air force did it, teaching pilots and gunners to understand lead.

 

[cp1969]

Shooting trap is how the Army Air force did it, teaching pilots and gunners to understand lead.

I think that's it. A shotgun only has a bead, so you don't have a pair of sights to align and you never take your eyes off the target. When I shot bowling pins, I was almost always the first gun to fire and if I happened to knock five pins off the table with 5 shots, I'd shoot #6 at the last pin as it was flying through the air. More often than not, I'd hit it. Never took my eyes off the pins; sights were in my peripheral vision.

Charlie Kirk--May he rest in peace.

 

[The Kid]

I taught myself to shoot a handgun by shooting thousands upon thousands of shells through a Ruger Single Six I bought with money from doing odd jobs when I was 12.
After I was able to make consistent hits on stationary targets I started stretching the range by shooting at cinder blocks at first 100 and then 200 and further.

Once that became routine I started to shoot at thrown arial targets. Dirt clods and clay pigeons at first and later I began using golf balls as they were reusable and available out of my dad's range ball bucket. I progressed to coins mostly as a parlor trick, ask a friend if they had a quarter then throw it up and shoot it out of the air.

I still regularly shoot revolvers and pistols at long range and thrown targets. Usually use 3in chunks of 2x4s nowadays. It's nice to have a place to shoot unlimited distances and nothing around for miles.

 

[gwpercle]

My dad threw clay pigeons with a hand thrower .
I shot some skeet on a local range ... skeet was fun .
Lots of wing shooting hunting game .
Then Sporting Clays came into being and that was fun way to hone moving target shooting skills !
Gary