[throck1]

Shot four rounds of trap today (only 6 rounds ever shot). That's a fantastic feeling when you really smoke one. Pretty much broke 50% of the targets (+ or -). Sometimes it felt so natural, you wonder how you could ever miss. Other times it felt like I must be doing everything wrong. Most all my long gun experience is rifle shooting, so it's difficult to get used to keeping both eyes open. Good bunch of guys that shot along with me.

I want to be sure I learn correct techniques from the start so I can continue to progress with practice. Practice makes permanent, but not necessarily perfect.

That leads to my question for you experienced trap shooters;
:?: At what point should I take some instruction (even the basics of my positioning, how I bring the gun up, etc)? Am I better off just shooting some more and maybe looking into a book or video?

 

[throck1]

Roger,

Thanks for the info. Shot four more rounds today. Unfortunately, today I learned that I am cross-eye dominant :shock: One of the experienced trap shooters helped me to place some opaque tape on my left glasses lens, which helped quite a bit. I posted these questions on another site, so I didn't plan to also ask them here. But, since you mentioned cross-eye domination, I thought you'd be a good person to ask.

I wear contact lenses. I've always been right eye dominant (from pistol and rifle shooting). Could an older prescription be making my left eye dominant (right handed shooter)? I plan to get to the eye doc pretty quickly. I want to learn to shoot as well as possible (all things considered). I'm thinking that the decisions I make early on will make a big difference in the long run. For example, I feel that my gun doesn't fit as well as it could. I think I'm mounting it high enough, but I still feel like I'm laying my head down and to the right just slightly in order to place my right eye in proper alignment with the rib & beads. Should hold off on gun fitting until I sort out this eye-dominance issue? (figure out if it's the lens prescription, get used to the tape and/or dot, try a patch, etc).

Jeff