Up until a few years ago I had never shot a round of sporting clays. Shot a lot of skeet but not sporting clays. The first time I went to a sporting clays course I was by myself. The clays course was set up with automatic throwers with delay. Being naive at sporting clays (because I had never done it), at the first station I loaded my gun inside the shooter box but with the barrels inside the shooting box instead of hanging over the side. I passerby who was experienced was walking by and immediately dressed me down in no uncertain terms. Pretty ugly actually, but I certainly got the point, and the bottom line being I never made that mistake again ever.
Since that time I have come across other shooters who were experienced and were doing similar "wrong" things and I point out those mistakes more of as a coach then anything else.
Back to your original question, I see number 1 and 2 all the time from folks walking to and from the clays range and it doesn't bother me because I can see the action is broken open. On 3 and 4 I'd be doing some talking to folks.
Last edited by tut; 07/26/15 06:19 AM.
