Customer Reviews

Taking More Birds

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A simple, practical guide to the basics of Sporting Clay shooting. This book will assist everyone taking up the sport to improve their scores and techniques.

Good Book. Read it back in 1995. Thought it was one of the best until i kept reading. Some other titles : Shotgunning by Brister, The sporting clays handbook by Meyer, Sporting Clays by Atwill, Precision shooting by Russel .

If your primary focus is sporting clays, this is a good read. From the start of "Taking More Birds...", the author states that the book is directed at the sporting clay enthusiast. I was a little vibed because I bought the book to improve my wingshooting. My decision to buy it was largely based on its title (last time I checked clay pigeons didn't have actual wings). There is a lot of good information and much of it does transfer to wingshooting. But if you are more interested in wingshooting, I would pick up the Brister book or the Orvis book (heck, even the author of "Taking More Birds..." refers to them - what does that tell you?). It's a good addition to a shooter's library, but definitely not the bible.

I know at the range we call our clays "birds" but I thought the title was a little misleading. The book is very helpful for range work and "taking more clays" but was disappointed when I found only a small section indicating that the technique would be helpful in the field. Upland bird hunting is considerably different than range shooting and those differences deserve much more attention than this book provides.

A concise and well written book that gets in to the most important aspects of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays! I have been target shooting for over 20 years and after applying the concepts of this book my ATA Trap numbers improved. The authors give great advice on stance, visual focus, lead factors and the "Sweet Spot" for each type of target flight. I would highly recommend this book to any target shooter, novice or experienced!

You don't need an instructor to improve your scores with this book. Its the best there is.