Trapshooting Secrets [Paperback]

James Russell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999

Trap Shooting Secrets takes you into the world where professionals reside. With over 132 practice tips and more than 100 illustrations it's like having a shooting coach by your side. This huge 182 page 8x11 size technical book teaches techniques of professional trap shooting; singles, handicap and double trap. Endorsed by professional shooters and ranks #1 by trap shooting magazines worldwide!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Like his other volume, Precision Shooting, James Russell's Trap Shooting Secrets is thick with tips, advice, techniques, and practice drills for anyone intent on improving his or her skills in a highly refined, complex, and technically demanding sport. Russell begins with a primer on buying the right shotgun, and builds from there on the essentials of basic shooting and a whole gamut of typical beginner's mistakes before moving on to more advanced targets like the psychology of competitive shooting, developing deeper concentration skills, and strategies for how to write off some of the high costs of trap shooting as a tax deduction. As informative as the volume is, it loses some points on style: pages crammed with text will likely glaze over your shooting eye, and its diagrams and illustrations, useful as they are, are relegated to the book's butt end as if appended as an afterthought. --Jeff Silverman

Review

"I enjoyed your Trap Shooting Secrets book so much that I am ordering your other book, "Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible." Right after reading your Trap Shooting Secrets book I won the ATA North Eastern Grand Satellite shoot on September 1997 and I just started shooting in June of 1997!! I'm going to the Grand American in Vandalia, Ohio!" -- Ed - (Trapshooter from Marlton, New Jersey)

"I have been trained by top notch instructors from Remington and Federal and an Olympic trainer and have never received the information that I did from you. I learned one heck of a lot. P.S.: I am NOT going to tell my friends about this!" -- Joy - (Trapshooter from Rhode Island)

Trapshooting Secrets by James Russell covers every aspect of the game. If you are looking for superiour advice, and are tired of the same worn pro telling you what you are doing wrong this book is all you need to enter into serious competition. If you are just starting out, this book presents the fundamentals in a way that will help you remember them everytime you shoot. Young or old, pro or not this book will help you identify what area of your game needs work.

Note: Richard Gentry's long list of Olympic trapshooting achievments is impressive indeed!. -- Richard Gentry - (Olympic Trapshooter))

Amazing! I want you to know you are not selling books you are selling dreams! Precision Shooting book and your Trap Shooting Secrets book is precisely and exactly what this sport needed for many years! Reading your books was easy to read and like taking a breath of fresh air. I just couldn't discover what I was doing wrong until I read your fantastic books. So many problems get fixed so fast and all of the advice and instructions you give all make perfect sense. Better yet they work as advertised! If it were not for your books I'd still be shooting poor scores, but not anymore. Your books are professionally printed with strong durable covers. I take the books to every trapshoot and they hold up real nice. The illustrations are powerfully effective too. You are charging too little money for these books. They are worth much more. I've won so much option money with them it's a great investment! You were right about one thing (among many) I'd never be able to learn these things on my own! A big thank you to you! -- Gary (Trapshooter from Smith River, CA)

I have reviewed both of James Russell's new trapshooting books--I found them to be full of useful trapshooting tips. These books will be an excellent addition to every trapshooter's library. -- Phil Kiner / All-American Trap Shooter

I like Precision Shooting and Trap Shooting Secrets. Both are very powerful books! I am introducing it to the Australian Trapshooting Association and other high-caliber shooters worldwide and I have dedicated a page on my web site to the books. You can't go wrong. Simply follow the instructions in these textbooks and you'll outpace t he competition. If I had these books years ago my career achievements ma y have even been better than they are today! I highly recommend these books for anyone shooting the trap discipline. Mr. Russell has done a great job here. Best instructional trapshooting books you can buy! DTL, Olympic, ATA trapshooters should have both of these books in hand. Money well spent and an investment in your success! -- Luca Rossi Scribanni - (Olympic Trapshooter and Shooting School

I like Trap Shooting Secrets! It is a powerful book. And the "Precision Shooting" book is really fantastic. I have introduced both books to the Australian Trapshooting Association and I have dedicated a page on my web site to these well-deserved books. To the Author I say, well done, Mr. Russell! It is the very first time I've seen books so well written and completely understandable from the first page! I've read many books talking about competition shooting and they were good reading, but I couldn't learn anything of true value from them, and believe me, I've read them all! These are the best trap shooting books in the world! Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting are books that explains technique and tactics as shotgun shooters need them to be explained. The best shotgun instructional books I've ever seen. If you shoot ATA trap, DTL, ABT, Double Trap or Olympic trap, get these books right away! They really can improve your shooting with a high degree of precision no other book or video can give you. There are precision shotgun shooting techniques explained in these books of great value.

When I read the books, I found it so true the advice given were exactly matching with the experiences I made through years of hi-level Olympic and International shooting. I wished I had these two books when I first started clay target shooting! I wouldn't have had to work so hard to reach my Olympic achievements and my career may have gone even further than it has! I strongly recommend shotgun competition shooters to read both, Trap Shooting Secrets, and Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible. If you read these books you simply can't go wrong. Just follow the steps outlined and you'll leap ahead in the ranking of any competition you'll attend. That's my recommendation. -- Luca Scribani Rossi, Olympic Medallist

I ordered the Precision Shooting book after reading your Trap Shooting Secrets book. Great information! I've been waiting for years for something like this. I always knew the pros were holding back or not giving out the real way to shoot. I have several videotapes and they always seem to lleave some little tip or procedure out. My advice on reading your books is to read and study only a few pages at a time, as you suggest. Otherwise the brain goes into overload as you give out a LOT of information. I tried your tip on calculating the proper side to shoot a target (the non-straightaway straightaway target) in practice last Saturday. Shoot it on the wrong side or try to center it and you just get a regular break. Shoot it on the proper side and get a smoke ball! THIS STUFF IS GREAT! I was so impressed with your web site that I ordered your books. I read everything and my scores went up 5-birds in 100. The very first time out changing from my eye holds to your eye holds I shot 49/50. -- Harry - (Trapshooter from South Carolina)

I've been reading both your books Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting and think they have helped already. The books are a lot of good info, and well worth the price of admission. Thanks a bunch! -- Dave (Trapshooter from Reno, NV)

There is a lot of constructive information in Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible. The concepts in these two books are strongly presented, understandable and easily applied. If you would like to step into the world where professional trapshooter's reside, these books can reveal valuable technical information to improve your shooting. And, in conjunction with a qualified shooting instructor, these two books should give the trapshooter a high measure of success -- Daro Handy / Hall of Fame Professional Trap Shooter

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Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: James Russell / JRC Publishing; 2nd edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916367096
• ISBN-13: 978-0916367091
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I started with my first book back in 1972 and just kept on adding a book here and there and as the years rolled by I became a book publisher. I had no formal training and actually flunked English and math in school, but this did not stop me for I did not really know what success was for I was a failure most all of my life.

Then, suddenly, I look around and notice that I am not working for a living anymore. I have nice things and in need of nothing. In my case, success came as a wonderful surprise.

My advice to writers is to write your book, stage play or movie script and write some more, but do explore other avenues of writing for your success may likely come from those other sources.

I now write "how-to" books on fixing motorcycles and Christian books. What is next? I do not yet know.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Material, But Needs an Editor, January 10, 2000

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"sdcsdc" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trapshooting Secrets (Paperback)

I'm a beginner at shooting trap, but even at that level there are a lot of very helpful ideas in this book. The problem for the reader is finding them, and working through them! This book is dying for a book editor's touch. Here's why I say that:

1. Maybe I missed the overall structure, but the sequence of the material seems almost random. Lots of good ideas, but they're not organized in a way which helps learning them.

2. The illustrations and figures are all placed in the back, in one chapter. It's a real pain to have to stop reading the text and refer to a different location in the book. Again, this detracts from the book's value as a learning tool, because you can't view the illustrations in their context.

3. ARGGH! What's with all the misspellings and grammatical errors? Worst of all, the chronic use of apostrophes to make plural nouns. ARGGH!

Is it worth buying? Yes--but it would be vastly improved with a thorough editing.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware., August 6, 2001

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Rob Tillman (Rockford, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trapshooting Secrets (Paperback)

While this book offers many sound trapshooting points, they come amidst a sea of personal opinion, Christian evangelizing, and the marketing of other books. This book is self-published and begs for professional editing. There are countless glowing spelling and grammatical errors. If one were to eliminate the redundancy and material not related to the subject, this rather expensive book would barely reach 100 pages. And, as if the contents were all his original ideas, he offers no bibliographic reference for any of the opinions, facts, or conclusions, even though many are contrary to conventional trapshooting wisdom and instruction. While Russell is quick to point out that the book is only useful if kept constantly on hand during practice and competition, he also sells it as an e-book that cannot be printed. All things considered, I have to seriously question the accuracy of the material and the validity of Mr. Russells opinions.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For [PRICE] the book should have been edited better., April 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Trapshooting Secrets (Paperback)

This book has some good information, but it is very hard to get through, references to diagrams are in the text with out any clue as to where the diagrams are, and enough already with all the words of wisdom, and biblical references.
There are paragrahs, but it is like reading one big run on sentence. For [PRICE] we should be getting a more polished easier to read copy. I am not convinced it was a wise purchase.