Testimonials

This year my students won the SCTP National Championship in Sporting Clays and also the National Championships in Double Skeet. To you I owe all of our success.

When you coached Jennifer I listened to not only what you said but how you said it. You taught her and myself the Unit Lead method. Your system is what I taught my students and I have developed into a very good coach/instructor thanks to you. Thank you Pete you are a masterful instructor!

Craig Cain is a current US ZZ Bird Team Member and now a shooting coach in the Dallas area.

I am the National Ladies Helice Champion and also the State Champion. I was recently placed 2nd in the World Helice Championships in Italy.

I take lessons on a regular basis from Mr. Blakeley and his ability as a coach is beyond reproach. My overall scores are improving as a result of his talent and Mr. Blakeley has a wealth of knowledge on all the shooting sports discipline and I would highly recommend him.

Thank you for the lesson recently. I must admit it was a bit of a struggle to shoot wearing a mask! I can’t believe how well I did and as I explained, I have always been told I need to keep both eyes open. What a difference you made to my shooting by suggesting I close my left eye. When I returned to Idaho I shot a 24 on the five stand at my Club…….. which is quite an improvement. For the first time in my shotgun shooting career I know where my gun is pointing.

My wife purchased a series of shooting lessons from Peter Blakeley as Christmas presents for me and my son. The intent of these lessons, from our point of view, was to make us better dove hunters.

During our lessons we started to shoot various sporting clay stations. We practiced what we were being taught as often as we could for enjoyment as well as improvement. At the end of our lessons we decided we liked this sporting clays thing!! We continued to shoot improving each time as we were perfecting the lessons Peter had instilled.

My son, Travis, had improved so much that he decided to shoot in the hunter’s class of the recent Competitive Edge tournament at Elm Fork. He entered to shoot both courses. At the end of his first tournament he had finished first on one course and third on the second course. 

I could never have hoped to improve his shooting abilities so dramatically by myself. We owe all of our success to our training by Peter Blakeley. If you ever want great, quality training, Peter Blakeley is the guy to see!! Thanks for everything Peter.

John and Travis (my hot shot son) Mattes

Pete Blakeley is one of the most involved, enthusiastic shotgunning aficionados I have known in my thirty years plus of competing. He is an outstanding instructor and has a very loyal following of students. His integrity is beyond reproach. Pay attention to what he has to say...........

Peter F. Blakeley is an Internationally recognized instructor who processes extraordinary ability in this distinguished sport. He has achieved sustained acclaim.

My Shooting has improved immeasurably thanks to your efforts and credit, I feel as though I have made great progress.

April 24, 2006 Comment on the Texas

"Pete Blakeley is really good and I highly recommend him."

I’ve shot in 3 tourneys and done no worse than 5th. At the Rock Creek tourney a few weeks back, I shot a 42 on the prelim and Scott Robertson was the only one with a higher score of 43. I was quite proud of that.
Thanks again for all the help.

Thank you very much for giving my dad and me a great lesson yesterday. I am really excited about getting out in the field and testing my skills. I have already passed your name on to a few of my hunting buddies here in Tyler.

I noticed on your website you have a connection to the Chicken Ranch in Frankston. Do you go there often or only when you have a client in the East Texas area?

Take care and Happy Holidays.

Hi Pete, 
I also had a very enjoyable time on Friday! I have been trying to absorb the things we covered on this past Friday. It might be for the best that we got rained-out and that I will come back for a second session. 

Your instruction must have made for some improvement in my Skeet-Shooting as well, because I went to the skeet/trap club on Sunday afternoon and (Shooting the K-80 with the sub-gauge tubes installed) I shot 24/25 and then 25/25 in 20 gauge and then, wonder-of-wonders, I shot 23/25 and then 25/25 in .410! I hardly ever shoot the .410, but that 25 put a pretty broad smile on me for several hours! 

I'm looking forward to seeing you again! Hope I can hit those tower-shots a little better this time! 

This is just a quick e-mail to say I am making mental and paper notes in preparation for my last lesson with you. Now let me brag a little on how effective your lessons have been for myself. I entered the Backwoods TRAPS Spook Harvest this past weekend. The trap set on each station was very difficult for me and other shooters as I heard a lot of them really going on about the difficulty of the targets. The person I frequently shoot with generally always beats me by one or two targets in the main event. He shot a 60 for this event. I tried to remember all the pointers you taught me and felt really good about my 79, which is the highest I have ever shot in a competition. I finished second in my class, won a nice trophy and received two punches. I thought I should give the small gauge a try with your teaching and won first in my 20 gauge class. How about that. I was really excited. 

I am really excited in that I ended up getting 2 punches for the Main Event and 1 punch for the small gauge event. This is what I was hoping for and need to move up in the NSCA shooters classification. This means I now have 4 punches in "C" class and only need 2 more punches to move to "B" class. 

I always like to look at where my score ranks compared to all the shooters in addition to where I ranked in my shooting classification. In the Sporting Clay Main Event (100 targets) I finished second in my "C" class and ranked 26th out of all 130 shooters. I was surprised at how high I ranked, my score place me in the top 20 percent of all the shooters that entered the event. This means that I out shot 38 shooters who are in the four higher classifications (Master, AA, A, and B) than myself. 

In the Small Gauge Event (which includes 20, 28, and 410 gauges), I won the "C" class 20 gauge event, and ranked 57 out of 107 shooters who entered. I out shot 14 shooters who are in higher classes. 

I will give you a call in the next few weeks to set a time for my last lesson. Thanks again for all the great instruction. 

Dear Peter, 

How kind of you to respond to my comments about your book. In fact, there are many other aspects of your writing than just the Skeet that captured my attention. For example, you are about the only writer I know on this subject who actually addresses the issue of lead. For most writers, and coaches, this is a borderline taboo; a magical quality that results from meditation, or burning candles!

I can not tell you how refreshing it was to read someone who met the problem head-on. It assisted me enormously, and, I am sure, many other people as well. Do keep up the good work, and, if I find myself near where you are, I would be delighted to have you help to make me a better shooter. Until then, I am,

Yours Most Sincerely, 
W. Page Faulk, MD, FRC Path. 
President, 
Faulk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

How is it going? Well, a sad moment occurred yesterday, I shot in the last tournament at Backwoods before they close. Backwoods is where I do all my practicing as it is close and easy to get to for me. I shot better than my previous tournaments. I have been slowly working my tournament average back up to late last years average of 87-88. I placed 3rd in A class, with an 85 and felt good about the score (1st was 88 & 2nd was 86). I had one station that missed me up. Other than that, I ran several stations and had fun. I received a very nice Montana silver and gold buckle and 2 punches for my 3rd place finish which I was proud to receive considering the number of really good shooters that entered in my class (34 total). The buckle is a real sentimental keep sake. 

This punched me up to AA class. So Bobby Fowler and Scott Robertson better look out as I am only one class back and moving up. Ha...

I realize that I am going to need all the help I can get to continue competing with the higher AA class shooters. The future of my practice location has me concerned as I have recently been stopping by Backwoods at least once a week and sometimes twice a week. So I encourage you to hurry up and publish that new book and video so I can at least use them to keep sharp and focused. 

It is interesting to note that I only started shooting Sporting Clays a couple years ago in Feb. 2004. Your lessons I took in 2004 have continued to pay off. When I see a new presentation I know how to apply the principles you taught and find they continue to work well in helping me read the line. Then I know my misses are behind or in front and can easily make adjustments. I don't know the normal time it takes the average shooter to move up from the entry level class to AA class. But I feel good of what has been accomplished in my shooting career in the last 2 years.

Take care,
James Teal