Shooting Clay Birds with a Rifle

Shooting Clay Birds with a Rifle

Having graduated with the dart, our expert can take up clay bird shooting with a rifle. It will soon become evident to him that he cannot hit straightaway birds, sent at ordinary speed, and the strength of the trap will have to be reduced. Then instead of standing behind the trap as does the shotgun man, he should go out into the field and try the targets as they go past him at lessened velocity. After a little practice he will be able to hit some of them, though I have never yet seen a man who could break any great percentage—one in three would be excellent shooting.

Fair overhead birds, sent at a height of about twenty-five feet, can be struck with considerable certainty, shooting shotgun style, covering the bird, barely hiding it by the barrel and firing. This is hardly rifle work, though, since all the shooting should be accomplished on the system outlined in the beginning, throwing the rifle in front of the line of flight, steadying it, and pulling as the flying object cuts the aim. As previously noted, swinging shooting will not do with a rifle; even when the mark is as large as a deer, the swing will generally prove a failure.

Askins, Charles. Rifles and Rifle Shooting. New York: Outing, 1912. Print.

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