Re incomers, one problem is that if you wait too long, you run out of swing. Another is that, especially with a sxs, the bird can end up hidden under the barrels if it's a straight incomer. If you're swinging through, pulling the trigger about the time it disappears should give appropriate forward allowance. But there's a hard to get past tendency to stop the gun when you no longer see the bird.

How well do hunters shoot? Of the 20,000-odd hunters Tom Roster has run through his CONSEP program, something like 2/3 of them can't hit 3 or 4 out of 8 crossing clays at 20 yards. Which means that if you're a pretty mediocre skeet shooter, you're better than that.