How to Stand for Skeet Target Shooting

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Don Snyder, Executive Director of the National Skeet Shooting Association, on behalf of expertvillage.com. One of the things that's very important, particularly for beginners, is getting the proper stance when handling a shotgun. One of the things that we've suggested, if you're a right handed person, is that you assume sort of a fighting or a boxer's stance. And for a right handed person, you would actually place you left foot forward and a slight break in the left foot, just leaning slight forward, and just picture yourself in a boxing scenario type situation. Basically what you want to do is kind of tuck in your tummy and stick out your butt and lean just slightly forward. You want to make sure that you maintain good balance, good control. When you're into that stance, the key is is to place your left foot, for a right handed shooter, at the point where you want to break the target, which allows you to move your upper body, move your upper body in sort of a spring action situation using your legs as the items that are pushing your body. Now it is just the opposite for a left handed shooter. A left handed shooter would place their right foot forward, assume the same situation, place the right foot in the position that they want to break the target, and again, using the legs as the driving thing to be able to move the entire body to finish and complete the shot."