I have watched hundreds of instructional videos on shotgun stance trying to enhance my skills, this is by far the BEST explanation on the foot mechanics I have watched.. Simple, yet elaborate and backed up by physics. God Bless you sir.. You are a marksman and a gentleman. You should go international. If you are interested in other languages let me know.
I just found your channel. I've watched most of the "how to shotgun" series and I must say it is probably the best available on UA-cam. It's probably as good as some of the professional videos I've seen. There is a distinct lack of the gun club lore that pollutes so much of the internet and confuses new shooters. I volunteer with a HS trap team and your videos may become required viewing for our athletes. Keep up the great work!
Feet placement affects hip movement which in turn affects torso twist and swing. Just like baseball or golf, foot placement is fundamental. Awesome video steve!
I recently started shooting skeet. I never thought about my stance. After reviewing some pictures and videos my Wife took of me, I realized my feet were never in the same place for each shot. Also I being a rifle and pistol shooter my whole life stood square to the targets. Thank you very much for your excellent tutorial. I have subscribed to your channel and will be watching all your videos. You are a very good instructor.
I love this series I use to shoot trap years ago with little to no understand if fundamentals. I stop because work got in the way now I'm able get back in to it and now I'm seeing with these vids all the little things I was doing wrong especially with hard left birds.
Great video any recommendations for your feet ona station 5 hard right target I'm having a hard time continuing my swing to the right to pick up the clay thanks again for any help
It would be good to see how to set your feet up for pairs, is it best to set up for the first bird you intend to break or the second? Also what are the determining factors in choosing which bird to break first if it’s a true pair? Really enjoying these shotgun videos, thanks!
For true pairs in skeet you should try to shoot the clay from the house that is closer to you, for example if you’re shooting from station 6 you should shoot the low house clay first then the high house. If you’re shooting sporting, then it’s that’s a different story…
I personally set up for the for more difficult bird of the pair if there is a big difference otherwise if they are similar I will set up for the second so that the body position makes the shot more instinctual if that makes sense.
Great video. I shoot trap from my wheelchair, and I use my wheel positions like your foot positions. My biggest problem is shooting straight away targets. Any ideas how I can solve this issue?
This is a great video! Excellent information. I'll be showing this to my kids and the kids I coach. Thanks! Suggestion: The yellow paint is hard for me to see on the green grass. It might be my slight color blindness, but white would be much better. If you use this tool again, go for white paint.
This is probably a dumb question, but as someone really new to shotgunning, I found out I am left eye dominant. Does this mean I would face the opposite way as far as footwork is concerned? With my right foot flared out a little point forward? Thanks for your videos!
Enjoying all the How to Shotgun content and hoping it will help improve my shooting, but still waiting to hear about your new exhibition shotgun that you left us guessing a couple of months ago (My educated guess is that it is a Mossberg 940) and why you switched and how it has been treating you.
I set up 90° to the break point on skeet,which is a little awkward for some shooters. Winding up like a rubber band and unwinding from the waste without waving the arms always puts the gun exactly at the break point. 60/40 or 70/30 balance perfect. Same technique for sporting clays and bird hunting. For trap I set up 90° on station one and 45° on station five station and always point the front toe at the perceived break point. Great videos, love shotguns, Would love to see some videos explaining exactly how to break skeet, trap and sporting clays targets from the hip. Thanks
Coming into my trap season.. I will throw my take in. I am a right hand shooter, I stand so i have a square stance to the hardest right hand bird and i flare my left foot to the trap. This seems to work well for me.
Set up for driven targets or game can be different . . . Inadequate foot mechanics can also take the shooter's gun off line, even if the correct lead was established. Thanks for sharing . . .
Im mixed your Videos and Ash‘s and i would say, when you want to Shoot clays or hunt, constantly, you dont Need More. Only set infos in practise. At hunting im on a high 80% hit, on clays over 90%. Coming from 60-70%. You Doing Great work. Greetings from Good Old Germany
I have two champion auto throwers for practice. Talk about placement of the throwers both the autos like mine and the spring type that you manually cock. Talk about safety of the placement of the manual throwers to keep shooters away from the firing line. Both placement for fun for beginners and placement for for more seasoned shooters at our own ranges. Thanks
Also very important in sporting clays, but getting folks to listen and buy into it is tough. Especially older shooters. It is the same thing in golf, alignment is most players issue, and as an instructor I would get folks to do something different, only to watch them go back to their way after I walked away. So my advise is, go pay someone for instruction if you wish to be a better shooter or golfer, then you will listen!
Let’s talk skeet for a right handed shooter. Based on what you say and some other videos, the hips should be towards the low house and then pivot to the hold point so that the shooter can swing with the bird. Do you agree with that?
I know I'm right hand dominant and I'm suppose to only focus on clay but just curious am I the only one who sees a distorted barrel I've always shot rifle so closed an eye sence I was 12
Hey do some kind of shooting practice. For hunting rabbit's, with dogs and without. With dogs you have more times to shoot. Without dogs you have to shoot very very close, and quick very very quick. Can you do something like that?
Got a question for you… I’m taking my grandpa on a upland hunt this year and I want to get him a 20ga semi for the trip. I’m afraid this may be our last hunting season together and I want to make this trip memorable. Do you have a recommendation on a good 20ga semi that I can get him? He shoots a old A5 that doesn’t have interchangeable choke that weighs probability 9lbs. I don’t want him lugging that thing around. Thanks, Jonny
This has been a great series, Steve! Keep them coming!
A fundament that is very often overlooked.
I have watched hundreds of instructional videos on shotgun stance trying to enhance my skills, this is by far the BEST explanation on the foot mechanics I have watched.. Simple, yet elaborate and backed up by physics. God Bless you sir.. You are a marksman and a gentleman. You should go international. If you are interested in other languages let me know.
I just found your channel. I've watched most of the "how to shotgun" series and I must say it is probably the best available on UA-cam. It's probably as good as some of the professional videos I've seen. There is a distinct lack of the gun club lore that pollutes so much of the internet and confuses new shooters. I volunteer with a HS trap team and your videos may become required viewing for our athletes. Keep up the great work!
Great advice. I never gave it much thought but agree 100%, it's extremely important. The foundation to a smooth swing.
Feet placement affects hip movement which in turn affects torso twist and swing. Just like baseball or golf, foot placement is fundamental. Awesome video steve!
I recently started shooting skeet. I never thought about my stance. After reviewing some pictures and videos my Wife took of me, I realized my feet were never in the same place for each shot. Also I being a rifle and pistol shooter my whole life stood square to the targets. Thank you very much for your excellent tutorial. I have subscribed to your channel and will be watching all your videos. You are a very good instructor.
Great video Steve! Great series, keep them coming! Really enjoying them
Thanks! It's just a 2-minute practice, and I can tell it makes a difference.
I love this series I use to shoot trap years ago with little to no understand if fundamentals. I stop because work got in the way now I'm able get back in to it and now I'm seeing with these vids all the little things I was doing wrong especially with hard left birds.
Super well thought out and presented!
All very common-sense stuff stated very clearly and precisely. Great Vid!
Great video. I definitely have not given enough thought to foot placment.
Great video any recommendations for your feet ona station 5 hard right target I'm having a hard time continuing my swing to the right to pick up the clay thanks again for any help
Hi Steve thank you for making these " how to shotgun " videos these are very helpful
Excellent info as Always Stevie man. Thank you and God Bless.
What helped me was a great gun. I got a browning citori725 sporting maple. I did the best I've ever done.
Great video Steve. It seems it should be so basic, but guaranteed most of us are doing it wrong. Thanks man. 👍🏻
It would be good to see how to set your feet up for pairs, is it best to set up for the first bird you intend to break or the second? Also what are the determining factors in choosing which bird to break first if it’s a true pair? Really enjoying these shotgun videos, thanks!
For true pairs in skeet you should try to shoot the clay from the house that is closer to you, for example if you’re shooting from station 6 you should shoot the low house clay first then the high house. If you’re shooting sporting, then it’s that’s a different story…
I personally set up for the for more difficult bird of the pair if there is a big difference otherwise if they are similar I will set up for the second so that the body position makes the shot more instinctual if that makes sense.
Great video. I shoot trap from my wheelchair, and I use my wheel positions like your foot positions. My biggest problem is shooting straight away targets. Any ideas how I can solve this issue?
video on HEARING PROTECTION!
Outstanding! Thank You.
This is a great video! Excellent information. I'll be showing this to my kids and the kids I coach. Thanks!
Suggestion: The yellow paint is hard for me to see on the green grass. It might be my slight color blindness, but white would be much better. If you use this tool again, go for white paint.
tks, I'm going to try it!!!
This is probably a dumb question, but as someone really new to shotgunning, I found out I am left eye dominant. Does this mean I would face the opposite way as far as footwork is concerned? With my right foot flared out a little point forward? Thanks for your videos!
Enjoying all the How to Shotgun content and hoping it will help improve my shooting, but still waiting to hear about your new exhibition shotgun that you left us guessing a couple of months ago (My educated guess is that it is a Mossberg 940) and why you switched and how it has been treating you.
One of his recent shorts had the mossberg with TFL logos and customized look.
I set up 90° to the break point on skeet,which is a little awkward for some shooters. Winding up like a rubber band and unwinding from the waste without waving the arms always puts the gun exactly at the break point. 60/40 or 70/30 balance perfect. Same technique for sporting clays and bird hunting. For trap I set up 90° on station one and 45° on station five station and always point the front toe at the perceived break point. Great videos, love shotguns, Would love to see some videos explaining exactly how to break skeet, trap and sporting clays targets from the hip. Thanks
Coming into my trap season.. I will throw my take in.
I am a right hand shooter, I stand so i have a square stance to the hardest right hand bird and i flare my left foot to the trap. This seems to work well for me.
Set up for driven targets or game can be different . . .
Inadequate foot mechanics can also take the shooter's gun off line, even if the correct lead was established.
Thanks for sharing . . .
Im mixed your Videos and Ash‘s and i would say, when you want to Shoot clays or hunt, constantly, you dont Need More. Only set infos in practise. At hunting im on a high 80% hit, on clays over 90%. Coming from 60-70%. You Doing Great work.
Greetings from Good Old Germany
good and interesting video now you need to do one for shooting in a layout blind
Great content. Makes allot of sense . Thanks 😊
I have two champion auto throwers for practice. Talk about placement of the throwers both the autos like mine and the spring type that you manually cock. Talk about safety of the placement of the manual throwers to keep shooters away from the firing line. Both placement for fun for beginners and placement for for more seasoned shooters at our own ranges. Thanks
Can you review a Impala Plus shotgun?
Excellent video!!
Also very important in sporting clays, but getting folks to listen and buy into it is tough. Especially older shooters. It is the same thing in golf, alignment is most players issue, and as an instructor I would get folks to do something different, only to watch them go back to their way after I walked away. So my advise is, go pay someone for instruction if you wish to be a better shooter or golfer, then you will listen!
Excelente, un abrazo Dominicano
You should make some videos with some remington semi autos
Awesome video.
How do you stand when the clays are coming out of a wobbler so you don't know if they are high, low, right or left
Let’s talk skeet for a right handed shooter. Based on what you say and some other videos, the hips should be towards the low house and then pivot to the hold point so that the shooter can swing with the bird. Do you agree with that?
WE NEED A RETAY REVIEW
Steve, what is the weapon in this video?
My biggest missing target is the straight out slow and easy looking clay. How do I correct this?
Can you walk through the 5 posts of trap
Great video
Using your knee to swing left and right is a much more stable platform. JMO Keep up the videos
What's in that leather pouch? A Yeti cooler?
Is that the new custom gun I see?
Ever go grouse hunting I diddent think so
It's like throwing a (left)hook in boxing
Foot work helps with "cheating"
setting up to not fail
Reminded me of throwing a football at a running receiver.
I know I'm right hand dominant and I'm suppose to only focus on clay but just curious am I the only one who sees a distorted barrel I've always shot rifle so closed an eye sence I was 12
Hey do some kind of shooting practice. For hunting rabbit's, with dogs and without. With dogs you have more times to shoot. Without dogs you have to shoot very very close, and quick very very quick. Can you do something like that?
Got a question for you… I’m taking my grandpa on a upland hunt this year and I want to get him a 20ga semi for the trip. I’m afraid this may be our last hunting season together and I want to make this trip memorable. Do you have a recommendation on a good 20ga semi that I can get him? He shoots a old A5 that doesn’t have interchangeable choke that weighs probability 9lbs. I don’t want him lugging that thing around. Thanks, Jonny
Nice
Do a left hand video
so basically a boxer's stance
Добрый день..скажите как вы думаете длина ствола 810 это лучше чем 760??
Honestly! How many tries did it take you to miss that first shot lol
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮❤❤❤
How can your feet make you miss. Don’t agree
Homie, I’m sure this guy shoots 100X what you shoot. He literally does it for a living.
Am i the only one not buying the commie shoes anymore...