Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – December 2020 Ian Darroch gives a small primer on teaching a new shooter this month. He gets some things correct. A tutorial on safety is a must. Check eye-dominance is also spot on and teaching correct mount and stance, etcetera is also appropriate with one caveat. When you teach a student you have to be diligent about the stance and mount. Stand next to them and do not allow them to take a shot if the stance and mount are not correct. When he talks about teaching lead he seems to forget he’s teaching trap. There is no lead in trap. It is swing-thru, intercept, or swing-to. No lead. Gun speed takes care of lead.
did you miss?”, on every missed target. If their response is wrong, then I explain why they missed. Encourage them to figure out what went wrong first. Not a good article.
There’s some other minutiae he discusses, probably because he’s used to teaching adults. Yeah, his ideas work for adult men, but not for women and youth shooters. The other thing I don’t like is how he gives feedback on why they missed. I ask the student, “Where
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