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Originally posted by berettafan
btw, IMO skeet is a muscle memory game and can only teach you so much. it is fun and cheap though.
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Well...having shot national level competition skeet for the 8 years prior to the last year rebuilding my 911, I think I'm qualified to say that skeet shooting is much more than a 'muscle memory game'.
Like any sport, it takes a few years to get the mechanics down, then it becomes a 90 to 98% mental game - especially during competition.
A reasonable goal in skeet shooting after 3 or 4 years is to have averages something like: 12 ga - 98; 20 ga - 97; 28 ga - 96; 410 bore - 95. All of those out of 100 targest - 4 rounds of 25; with a season accumulation of probably 1,200 targets minimum in each gun.
Those averages, however, won't win you anything but an occasional A or B class win. To shoot well enough to win gun championships averages would range from around 99.7 in the 12 to 98.4 in the 410 - at a minimum.
At that level your Winning Mental Management System better be in place and consistent.