First, shooting a second shot at a chipped piece on a skeet field will and should get you tossed. Chips have a tendency to swerve off the flight path and if you are swinging with one it very well might put your muzzle where it doesn't belong.
Treblig, I have the same natural tendency to swing well to the left and not so well to the right. Here is what is happening to me. Going right it is easy to push the gun away from the face which is always a missed bird. The other part is that the lead foot is the left foot and is usually naturally positioned to help swing left but not right. When I remember to reposition my lead foot so it is turning ahead of the bird's flight my swing is much better and so is my shooting and since I will then be swinging from the knees, rather than from the waist,and the gun doesn't get pushed away from the head. If you swing too much right or left for your foot position it is hard to keep the gun from dipping downward from the flight line and that is another way to miss.
Most important though is this: See the bird - Shoot the bird. If you aren't super sharp focused on the bird (I try to pick out an eye) you will probably miss anyway.
Last edited by Jerry V Lape; 05/27/12 01:43 AM.
