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Manufacturer: James Russell / JRC Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 799
EAN: 9780916367091
ISBN: 0916367096
Label: James Russell / JRC Publishing
Manufacturer: James Russell / JRC Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 182
Publication Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher: James Russell / JRC Publishing
Studio: James Russell / JRC Publishing
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"Trap Shooting Secrets" takes you into the world where professionals reside. With over 132 practice tips it's like having a shooting coach by your side. The book explains setup, stance, squad timing and pitfalls, eye and gun hold points, sight pictures, target angles, spot shooting, zone shooting, timing, good and bad pulls. Point of impact adjustments, reliable hot core patterns, shotshell selection, eye focus, target behavior, swing timing, call timing, flinching, slump-busting procedures, feeling the shot, moving gun techniques, back-sighting the sight beads, chokes, seeing targets in slow-motion, mind-set. Concentration, trigger control and much, much, more to list here. No other trapshooting book reveals more details, especially for handicap long-yardage shooting. Softbound 8x11 format, 170-pages, 16-chapters, over 40-illustrations. Equivalent to a 255-page 5x8 size book! If you shoot trap, you definitely need "Trap Shooting Secrets." Stop missing targets and start winning the option money and competition events. This book will pay for itself many times over with event winnings. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Summary: Do not buy this book
Comment: I am relatively new to trap shooting. This book was just a compendium of useless ideas that clutter the brain and degrade shooting. It astounded me that a subject as inherently simple as trap shooting could be so massively over-complicated in such a fashion.
Do not buy the book. It is a waste of money and time.
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Summary: To believe or not to believe..that is the question?..whether to brave the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune......
Comment: There are mixed reviews and this is a preliminary critique as I have not read the book entirely. I will have a look at Costas points particularly, when I do so.
We all know there is a learning curve in trap shooting as in everything else. In the interests of helping someone or one's self much advice and criticism is given by shooters better than the shooter. What really bother's me is the relying of a bird being consistent...what is it with this sport which demands that the target be predictable...is that sport?
When I watch AA's I see basic faults which poise them on the edge of failure ..and I see them miss shots and I wondered why....??
They shoot better than I do and hold cups, pots, certificates, medallions and sponsorships ..but there is something beyond that level, beyond Olympic levels ..elusive, barely touched, not comprehended.
Perhaps like show jumping where one sees for the most part a sack of potatoes with arms and legs sawing on the reins and misdirecting the horse, they are hopeless jumpers in reality which doesn't say much for the lower grades of jumpers.......or shooters if a comparison is made.
The top levels at any individual sport are not the top at all but simply the best at what is called "the correct way". Trap shooting may be the same..the top guys are the tops at a certain system....thus the variables plaguing the new chum.
Immediately I got into this Russel book I realised this is an intellectual writing. This author is not a mantra chanting expert at dummy sucking but the possessor of a mind which understands the reality, passes through the looking glass and returns intact.
I recognise the book's systems and the approaches which I have worked out through hard experience ...but much more as well but which lies ahead of me. Ridiculed for shooting full /extra full,I see this author comprehends precisely why I do.
There is much comment about the gun "it's a gun and not a rifle"...but in actual fact most hits are almost misses!!...accidental hits. One can shoot a rifle two eyes open...the trick is to have the brain know what part of what is seen is the critical point for squeezing the trigger.
To drive one's self to shoot a narrow diameter, through full/extra full choking and shoot spot on..is the absolute level which beats just "a hit". In general even champions will say ..you are an idiot...use 3/4-1/2, scores are what is important and of course they are but there is a dimension beyond scores which come from seconds and "almost missed"..in my view, rarely understood.
Imagine if you or the best were shooting a .22 at the bird...how many experts and world champions would hit it? Extrapolate that..if one can shoot a narrow pattern to powder the birds time after time after time then that person s an accurate shooter. Shooting is essentially based on foot positon when it comes to consistancy...like all base mounted guns a predictable swivel is essential.
I really cannot comprehend how top shooters expect targets to be consistent, that's robot minded stuff. A recent report on an Irish competition referred to an erratic bird causing a champion to miss. In my view an expert shooter isn't one who has memorised every which way,and hits the bird so long as it is in the approved path but the shooter who is truly free and follows the bird wherever it goes.
I look forward to having the books delivered so that I can peruse the interesting mind of the writer at my leisure. One should read a paragraph at a time then lean back, close one's eyes and digest and visualise the material. One then needs to assimilate the information in one's shooting.
Nothing is less productive that experts who don't understand human response, the effect of the unconscious on the shooter, but expect one to follow a pattern they promote....it may get top results but it isn't becoming a top shooter.
There are so many variables. The sox are too tight, the clown alongg side you sights his broken gun at your target, shoes are not comfortable, variable,sunlight has one's graded glasses going beserk, eyesight plays tricks...and so on...the author has answers, in fact he is, to repeat myself, an intellectual writer.
As breathing is a problem for me I work on that...it makes a huge difference. The author knows it. Reducing the field of vision by squinting my left eye makes a huge difference..the author knows it. Visualising the hit is not so simple as one can be distracted...so it has to happen before the concentration exclusion of thinking about it..thinking about it is "static". The author knows it.
Of course many will not understand where his head goes but that is their sad loss. Verbose??(verbage is mentioned whatever that is..!??) ...well, any teacher worth two bob knows one reinforces and then explores, reinforces, reinforces, checks the response..then explores further when the class is ready to move forward.
In my view this book and its companion "Precision Shooting" have no choice but to be good because of the writer's intellectual and thus realistic co-ordination and timing, allowing some things to be training and others to be "unconscious responses". He allows hi readers to learn to grasp the merging of the shooter with the whole field.
Like the late JD Wilton, the brilliant Australian horse trainer,the author will be misunderstood by most people, the so called "racing experts" simply because "they don't get it"...but that has nothing to do with the correctness of the method.
In part that is very understandable as there is so much inconsistency ineducation, the initial education which introduces the brain to new thoughts.Lie JD Wilton he may not become worth hhis value but his legacy will be valued in gold bars...by a few.
Any way, use a system to realise the value of this soft covered jewel.Read the book in small doses if you feel resistant to intellect and to its reality, you can then either accept of reject the report.
So much hogwash is directed at the amateur shooter that reality sounds bizarre..but people genuinely try to help a person out.!!
One day there may be better books on shooting ..I accept that...but right now, these two books, Precision Shooting and are the "ants pants", but not now..
I also accept the criticism about diagrams being at the rear of a book..truly that is a pain in the neck but better than having it one page away rather than havng the text and photos interlaced..or to have detailed "fold outs".
In general reference books are edited by moderately competent people and perhaps cost was a factor...though that is no excuse in my mind to have a reader runnng all over a book to get continuity.
On the other hand illustrations can be a distraction to continuity of written concepts. Somewhere in there the publishers ought to have the decency to have blank pages scattered among photos or two sided illustrations rather than giving the reader a seemingly eternal search for information sustinence and security concerning the subject.
It's not so very hard to merge one's self in with the author but it does require the setting aside of prejudice and ingrained thinking.If you let this book absorb you the rest will follow.
When I read the book fully I'll give a proper review....however at this early stage, I highly recommend it...cheers Tony
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nothing Special
Comment: Nothing special in this or his other book. I have been trapshooting for a couple of years and really didnt find anything in either of the authors books that I haven't already learned just from shooting or other books that are out there. I looked on the ATA website to see the authors averages but could not find a listing for him so it kind of makes me wonder just how much actual experience the author has. To me that is important as there are a lot of opinions from the author in the book that are hopefully backed by experience and not just someones own personal theories. I would recommend spending your money getting lessons/books from an accomplished, well known shooter rather than on this book.
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Summary: opion-trap shooting secrets
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This book is by far the best how to book I have ever
read. It has more info on attitude that I have ever come
across. Should be read by everyone that has anything
to do with sports!
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Summary: Off the hook-(that is good)
Comment: This book was over the top, I wish it had more pictures to show a shooter what it could look like and I wish it had more info about the 27 yard line shoots but I see James has put that in another book. I give this book a 6 and if the scale went to 10 I would give it a 10, a lot of shooters should read this.
Thanks James,
Bubba
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