Great video. Wish I had it 25 years ago! Super appreciate you taking your time and expertise and sharing them here with us. Thank you.

Gil...I am 66 and only been trap shooting for 4 years. Tried both eyes...one eye...sight blinders and many other horrible failures. I eventually admitted my problem was not the gun and was my horrible flinch. Solved by a release trigger. Went back to two eyes and shot 98 and 97 consecutively. Two eyes is a must and the gun has to become invisible when the bird leaves the house. Learning to use the periphery while concentrating on the bird takes a lot of practice...something that has to be developed. I use this video quite often while teaching trap here in Ohio. Thanks!

@xiaominsong

Ай бұрын

Well said!

This is the best explanation I have seen on this. There is a lot of confusion on this because I have listened to top pro shooters talk about what they see, and they completely contradict each other. There has to be a visual awareness of the barrel.

Thanks for your time, expertise and another great video 👍 Stay well and God Bless

Awesome video ! This is one of my major issue that struggling to keep the barrel fuzzy and focus only on the target. Not to mention the positions that was clarified in this video. Thanks a lot ! Cant wait to try out and hope wont fail next time on the exam : )

Gil, as a new shooter, I was squinting my less dominant eye and aiming and looking down the barrel. Average bird hits, 8. I changed to both eyes open and concentrating on the bird. 18 to 20 average kills. Thank you for your insights.

@paulcassidy6486

Жыл бұрын

As a cross eye dominant shooter, I tend to close one eye just before I slap the tigger.if I am shooting a sxs,my left /lead hand seems to block my left eye enough to keep both eyes open

This tip really helped me. Thank you, Mr Ash!

I've just shooting.. and I need all the help I can get. Thanks for the tip.. love from New Zealand 💚

Enjoy your videos. They sure have helped me out.

Thank you for this tip!

Good stuff. New to the sport, it took me a while to under what Gil means. Just a minor suggestion, add two arrows in the diagrams to indicate moving directions of the target and the barrel. This will clarify what Gil means by "seeing the sharp target behind the fuzzy barrel."

@Hunter7509

3 жыл бұрын

forget about him. there are many good vid. here

This confused the hell out of me, and I’m pretty good behind a shot gun

@Hunter7509

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, amazing. I know he knows it but can not explain it

@TonyPac-ub3dd

4 ай бұрын

It does happen but it's not going to happen sitting on the couch

Great video, thanks

That’s a really neat way of explaining a solution to my current problem. A variation on the “ignore the barrels/bead, concentrate on the bird”.

@TonyPac-ub3dd

4 ай бұрын

You don't ignore the bead you see it with your minds eye as you focused on the bird. Minds eye peripheral vision or what ever name you want to use. You can focused on clay bird and still see you bead. Then you just move your bead in front of bird.

I shoot shotgun and Gil had a hard time explaining something very simple. Amazing

Hey Gil I was just saying I’m the kid that got your autograph at the airport in Houston

I’ve put this into practice I only follow the clay with both eyes so if I’m looking at the clay how is my gun giving the lead it needs because I’m still not hitting clays consistent but I can see the lead is wrong which would relate to only looking at the clay any advice I could get would be great

I took me a years of not understanding. I understand how to properly shoot now. Its hard to explain for someone who knows, Hard to understand for someone who doesn’t.

What is the purpose of a bead or fiber optic sights on a shotgun barrel? When wing shooting you should never look at the bead.

I have this a lot, "don't focus on your sights focus on the target". I don't shoot shotgun but I do dry fire with AR-style carbines. What I practice is getting the rifle to the target as fast as possible and acquire good sight alignment. The target is in my center vision, the sights on my rifle are blurred

In every Single Video are informations Thats Completly True, and i dont know before. Or, i dont think about before. When I think about it, it Males 100% sense

That must have come naturally to me. I started bird hunting with my dad when I was eight. He got annoyed when I got to the point that I didn't miss...

@TonyPac-ub3dd

4 ай бұрын

Ya ya

Bro this is a lot of information

Still, nobody talks about TWO barrels when focused on target! How does that work?

Confusing me, i m unable to understand what gill wannna say, first time ever. Plz help someone.

This video is in the Periphery...

different than handgun. I was taught to see the front sight clear and the target fuzzy - on a hand gun.

I have been shooting for over 50 years and I don’t understand a word he’s saying!

@Hunter7509

3 жыл бұрын

you are not the only one. same here

That’s literally exactly opposite of correct. You always want to see the target through the gun. Keep your head planted on the comb. The gun moves with your head. Every time you lift your head to see the target before the gun gets there, you will miss. My coach called it peaking over the fence lol. Don’t lift your head and peak over the fence

This is called over explaining to someone who's overthinking. Simply put, focus on the target not the sight

That was very confusing

@Hunter7509

3 жыл бұрын

awful vid

I found this hugely confusing.

Try to explain at shooting range

@TheNSSF

4 жыл бұрын

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Why do they talk about gun fit, and the eye being in the right place (when the gun is mounted) and put beads on barrels and then say don’t look down the barrel look across it.

Sounds like a fancy confusing way of saying "stay target focused, not front sight focused"

dude, they need to rethink and reshoot ( no pun intended) that one. confused the hell outta me after really trying to understand.

Or, check out this video in action: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKKGuqmlmcrgfKQ.html

Its amazing how many `top` shooters I meet say they dont like this or that RIB on a particular gun?. .I say you should,nt be looking at the rib? same with beads?!. . Can remember last Olympics a chap had got white tape wrapped around end of barrels, saying it helps in peripheral vision. . .Mmmmmmm. . .

I shoot in the 80s. I see absolute no barrel or bead.

@Kh2456

5 жыл бұрын

+James Parmenter and that’s why you shoot in the 80’s...

@Hunter7509

3 жыл бұрын

very good technique

@rotasaustralis

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's why you shoot in the 80's. Gill Ash is probably the most prolific bullshitter of all the self proclaimed coaches.

This is not a good teaching video. I've watched many of your older ones that are. If you replace a shooting video of gun, shot & real target you don't have much.