For those who haven't noticed, skeet is a special case. Do enuf reps on the same machines on the same field and you've got Nixon's bowling alley. There are guys who can break every bird on an American skeet field from the hip. No, not for 100X100 but with fair regularity. The visual and auditory cues are reinforced to the point where a fair skeet shooter can literally change the attitude of the gun and relationship with the hands and eyes and still make the moves to break targets. I haven't seen anyone attempt this afield with a live bird altho no doubt some kills have been accomplished without the butt hitting the shoulder.
Some folks believe the rote foot position, pre-mount, high comb and bullet head of skeet is not preparation for anything but skeet. The game may have been invented to simulate the experience of bird-hunting but it isn't bird hunting. I resist the idea that skeet has any importance whatsoever when shot with an actual "skeet gun".
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