Videos tagged with Lead Calculation

This masterclass features World FITASC Champion Zach Kienbaum, offering expert insights into the mental game, visual discipline, and precise lead techniques for sporting clays. Kienbaum, with over 30 years of competitive experience, emphasizes the importance of 'hard focus' on targets, matching gun speed to target speed, and mastering challenging shots like rabbits. The guide also touches on equipment confidence, specifically highlighting the Beretta DT11.

This video details an extreme pheasant shoot in Wales, showcasing the challenges of high-altitude birds. Expert instruction from TGS Outdoors highlights the necessity of specific techniques, including a fast gun swing, massive lead, and appropriate ammunition like Hull Cartridge High Pheasant Extreme. The use of tools like the ShotKam is demonstrated for performance analysis.

This video covers the 2024 World Sporting Clays Championship held at M&M Hunting Preserve in New Jersey. It details various courses, target presentations, and shooting strategies employed by top competitors. The content highlights the challenges posed by different backgrounds and target speeds, offering insights into effective techniques for breaking clays in a competitive environment.

This video explores the effectiveness of shotguns at extreme distances, specifically around 150 yards, using specialized chokes and cartridges. The presenters demonstrate the challenges of hitting distant, fast-moving targets, emphasizing the critical role of lead calculation, choke selection, and ammunition choice. They highlight that while possible, achieving consistent hits at such ranges requires significant skill, luck, and specialized equipment.

This video from TGS Outdoors features Ed Solomons discussing various shooting methods for clay pigeons. Solomons emphasizes that there's no single 'correct' method, but rather the importance of understanding basic setup principles and adapting techniques like swing through, maintain lead, and pull away to suit different target presentations and personal styles. He highlights how target angle influences hold points and movement, and stresses the need for repeatable, controlled shots over simply breaking targets.

This video documents a clay pigeon shooting experience at Ladies Wood Shooting School, featuring various challenging targets and techniques. The participants, including instructors and guests, demonstrate advanced shooting methods for driven, crossing, and high tower clays. Emphasis is placed on reading wind, calculating lead, and adapting shooting styles to different target presentations, highlighting the school's capability for realistic game simulation.

This video explores the challenges of clay shooting with air rifles, highlighting the significant difference in pellet speed compared to shotguns. It demonstrates the difficulty in calculating the correct lead for moving targets due to the slow pellet velocity. The content suggests that while air rifles can be zeroed on stationary targets, adapting to moving clays requires significant practice and lead adjustment, making it a challenging discipline.

This video critiques movie sniper scenes, highlighting critical marksmanship errors. Key takeaways include the importance of follow-through after the shot, maintaining good supported positions, proper elevation and windage adjustments, and the role of an observer. The instructor emphasizes that many cinematic portrayals are unrealistic and for entertainment only.

This guide details advanced sniper techniques for engaging moving targets, drawing on the expertise of a former USSF member. It covers essential steps from range determination and lead calculation to specific methods like the Ambush, Tracking, and Combination techniques. The instruction emphasizes understanding ballistic solutions, windage, and practical tips like bipod placement for close-range engagements.

This guide details the operation of the unique anti-aircraft (AA) sights found on the Japanese Type 99 Arisaka rifle. Drawing from expert instruction, users will learn how to adjust the standard rear sight for range and deploy the specialized AA wings for leading moving targets. The guide emphasizes a crucial safety check before handling the firearm and provides context on the historical application of these sights.

This guide, presented by expert instructor Gil Ash of OSP Shooting School, details a technique for improving target acquisition in sporting clays. By using an empty shotgun shell box as a visual frame, shooters can better perceive a target's true trajectory and overcome common optical illusions that lead to missed shots. The method emphasizes understanding target line and lead components for consistent performance.

This guide, presented by expert shotgun instructor Gil Ash of OSP Shooting School, details the technique for successfully shooting springing teal targets. It emphasizes understanding the target's trajectory and speed, using a 'covering the target' mounting technique, and breaking the target on its upward flight before it reaches its peak for greater consistency.