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Do not look at your front sight during the swing; look just behind it. ” Sometimes it’s the only effective way to change bad habits. One of the most important things that this drill accomplishes is to imprint on your brain that the act of pulling the trigger is just one element of a smooth swing. There should be no feeling that you are doing three separate things: swinging, shooting, and following through. Your follow-through is an integral part of your shooting form and swing, not something tacked on afterward.

Surprisingly, many shooters who make this transition from weight reversal to a proper pivot shoot ahead of the bird for several shots. I think this occurs because their swing is suddenly so much more efficient, with a more positive follow-through. FOLLOW-THROUGH Every shooting manual, video, or coach emphasizes the importance of follow-through in shooting skeet. I sometimes give shooters a dummy shell, with shot but no powder and a fired primer. Or I have students load one barrel of an over-under and then look away while I move the barrel selector back and forth.

When coaching experienced shooters, we go through all the reasons why they should consider resetting their foot positions. They may even agree that the new position is comfortable when shooting at their normal target breaking point and makes it easier to swing past the out-of-bounds stake. But then they load two shells, mount the gun, and without even realizing it, move their feet back to their old positions. 9 AAA shooter Peter Balunek is balanced and almost squarely facing the low house window.