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Articles, Videos and Books Now Available! “You’re Behind It!” This is a specialist target reading book for the experienced sporting clay competitor. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!!“Congratulations on writing the definitive book on target leads! Your writings confirmed many of my thoughts after years of skeet, international skeet, trap, bunker, FITASC and sporting clays.” Mark L. Kiddie, 1997 Champion of the All-round shotgun Championships, 1999 U.S. Amateur Sporting Clay Champion, 1999 & 2000 USA Shooting International Skeet National Senior Champion, English Sporting Veteran Bronze medalist, 2000 Ohio Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame, 2007 Ohio Sporting Clays Hall of Fame.
Qu "Shooting coaches in the UK have a saying: - “What’s hit is history, what’s missed is mystery.” For many of us, when we trigger the shot and the target fails to break, it is exactly that; complete mystery. So, at the end of the day after a testing tournament, we reluctantly hand our mediocre score card in and retreat to the clubhouse. Later, with our shooting buddies, we kick the day’s targets around in our heads until it’s time to leave. But on the long drive home we still don’t really understand why the long crosser (that everyone missed) needed so much lead. We didn’t really understand why the dropping chondel was so difficult, until now. Shooters need specifics. This book was written to give the sporting clay shooter a logical approach to reading every target that’s out there."
 On the 21st May 2006 Successful Shotgunning made it to the Number one slot of the top selling shotgun/shooting books at Amazon.com. Successful Shotgunning: 305 pages, 105,000 words, 140 photographs, 40 line drawings - possibly the most elaborate and definitive shotgunning book ever written "The aspiring shotgunner has absolutely no control over any airborne target. Once he triggers the shot, it's over. It would make sense, therefore, to pay attention to the things he can control-gun fit, stance, mount, swing, and most important of all, visual ability to accurately evaluate all the variables involved. This book will show you how." Dennis Walrod,
Read the Line, Feel the Lead (now available only in DVD) There are five things we must consider when we shoot any moving target, regardless of if it is a skeet, trap or sporting clay target, or a duck, dove or pheasant rising from the Kansas cornfield. These are:- speed, distance (or range), angle (or perceived lead), trajectory and where we shoot the target on this trajectory. This is what this video is about, a logical and intuitive way to evaluate each of these five things. Of course, once learned, eventually you need to trust this accumulation of knowledge and apply it to each target and pull the trigger when it looks right to you. In other words, Read the Line, Feel the Lead.
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Pete
Blakeley has written extensively on shooting techniques for over twenty
years and his expert knowledge has contributed to numerous magazines
both here in the United States and the United Kingdom. These include the
Shooting Gazette, Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, Texas Outdoors
Journal and the Dallas Morning News. He currently writes monthly
articles for Sporting Clays magazine and Skeet Shooting Review. His
video "Read the Line, Feel the Lead" is (available in VHS or DVD) is one
of the top selling shooting videos in the US and his latest book,
"Successful Shotgunning" (published by Stackpole Books, September 2003)
is considered by many to be the most complete and definitive guide to
the science of successful shotgunning that has ever been written.