John Snow at the Gun Shots on How Not To Shoot A Shotgun:

A less obvious, but equally effective, technique to lowering your score is to do a bunch of rifle shooting right before stepping up to the line for some trap, skeet or 5-stand. There’s nothing that throws off the mechanics of a graceful shotgun swing as quickly. Get the concept of “aiming” buried into your body’s sub-conscious and have fun watching those targets sail toward the horizon unscathed.

I’m a shotgun neophyte, having taken my first blasts at clay pigeons last fall. But I quickly realized that the whole concept of “aiming” hurt my accuracy badly. I wasn’t exactly going for Luke Skywalker relying on the Force, but I definitely had most of my success shooting on instinct.

I wasn’t great by any means, but considering my lack of experience with shotguns and clay shooting I didn’t do half badly. At least once I “let go my conscious self and acted on instinct.”

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