Over the last couple of years or so, I have been struggling with a persistent flinch that kept getting worse and worse. I'd call pull, bear down on the target and couldn't pull the trigger. It was very frustrating and I was losing tournaments by one or two targets and got reduced from Master Class to AA in Sporting Clays. I took my K80 and KX6 to Kerry Allor to have release triggers installed and I couldn't be happier. It's the best move I've made in years. First time out with the KX6 I broke 148/150 and won AA in the Great Lakes Championship last week with my K80. Got 4 punches in my first tournament with a release. I have since converted my 391 to a release and my 870. My other shotguns I'm just going to sell because I just don't need them anymore.

I wish I had done this a few years ago.

What kind of rod & reel do you use.

 

Actually being serious…but I do like my old Penn reels.

 

Did the same thing and it made a huge difference for me. Congrats on making the successful move to a release trigger.

 

Over the last couple of years or so, I have been struggling with a persistent flinch that kept getting worse and worse. I'd call pull, bear down on the target and couldn't pull the trigger. It was very frustrating and I was losing tournaments by one or two targets and got reduced from Master Class to AA in Sporting Clays. I took my K80 and KX6 to Kerry Allor to have release triggers installed and I couldn't be happier. It's the best move I've made in years. First time out with the KX6 I broke 148/150 and won AA in the Great Lakes Championship last week with my K80. Got 4 punches in my first tournament with a release. I have since converted my 391 to a release and my 870. My other shotguns I'm just going to sell because I just don't need them anymore.

I wish I had done this a few years ago.

Release triggers are so great that even if I did not need one due to flinch, from years past I am convinced they are the way to go on a target gun especially for ATA trap. To me it's not a conscious effort but just see the sight picture you want and the gun goes off.

Congratulations and excellent shooting!

 

Welcome to the DARK SIDE!

 

Good luck but it looks like you adapted well. Years many of us wouldn't be shooting were it not for releases.

 

Switched to a release in 1984. Still shooting one

 

Over the last couple of years or so, I have been struggling with a persistent flinch that kept getting worse and worse. I'd call pull, bear down on the target and couldn't pull the trigger. It was very frustrating and I was losing tournaments by one or two targets and got reduced from Master Class to AA in Sporting Clays. I took my K80 and KX6 to Kerry Allor to have release triggers installed and I couldn't be happier. It's the best move I've made in years. First time out with the KX6 I broke 148/150 and won AA in the Great Lakes Championship last week with my K80. Got 4 punches in my first tournament with a release. I have since converted my 391 to a release and my 870. My other shotguns I'm just going to sell because I just don't need them anymore.

I wish I had done this a few years ago.

Now if you take grammar lessons to learn how to correctly form sentence structure!

 

Does anybody here use the colored glasses for seeing the clays better? A guy at my club let me look through his as they released a target. I was amazed how vivid it was. Now I want to get glasses with interchangeable lenses, but I don't want to spend $300 for them. Any sugestions?

I bought my K80 TS with a release/pull and took the release out. I have several other guns that I did the same thing to. i have a Pro3 with one of each. Now approaching my 80’s I can see where I might have to switch triggers back to release. I can pull the trigger when I flinch, but it is like an R2D2 episode where everything short circuits. Sometimes I think I am going to throw the gun out in front of the line.

 

Don't mess with release-pull, just go directly to release-release. You'll end up there eventually anyways if not sooner. Welcome to the club. -Jeff

 

Finally had to do it. I remember talking to you about it some years ago and you realized it wasn’t time yet. Glad to hear it’s working now! Nice shooting!

 

Congrats on a successful switch Tron!

 

Tron has been transitioning for quite some time.......

 

Sounds like he's all in now, with the top AND the bottom done.

Larry

 

My other shotguns I'm just going to sell because I just don't need them anymore.

Now that is just crazy talk!!!!

 

The learning curve for me was horrible, I switched to releases in 94 and sometimes I will still fail to set the trigger on the 2nd shot of doubles, realizing that and then trying to set it usually results in a lost target.
Glad your transition was as smooth as it sounds like it was.

 

Purchased a used MX3 with release triggers years ago and was hooked... Didn't know I needed them

 

Purchased a used MX3 with release triggers years ago and was hooked... Didn't know I needed them

If a kid came up to me and said, “I want to be a trap/skeet shooter for life”…..I’d put them on release triggers immediately, and be done with it!

 

Tron has been transitioning for quite some time.......

It is a sure sign, selling guns you don’t need.

Now that is just crazy talk!!!!

 

Made the switch about 10 years ago. I would have had to stop shooting clay targets.

 

Do you have a release in your fishing reels yet???

 

Have you shot the trap house yet?

 

Not yet, but looking forward to it.

 

So, you can teach an old dog new tricks?

 

You must now wear the Scarlet Letter…..

 

Yes, I have the dreaded orange “R” stickers on 4 of my guns now.

 

Over the last couple of years or so, I have been struggling with a persistent flinch that kept getting worse and worse. I'd call pull, bear down on the target and couldn't pull the trigger. It was very frustrating and I was losing tournaments by one or two targets and got reduced from Master Class to AA in Sporting Clays. I took my K80 and KX6 to Kerry Allor to have release triggers installed and I couldn't be happier. It's the best move I've made in years. First time out with the KX6 I broke 148/150 and won AA in the Great Lakes Championship last week with my K80. Got 4 punches in my first tournament with a release. I have since converted my 391 to a release and my 870. My other shotguns I'm just going to sell because I just don't need them anymore.

I wish I had done this a few years ago.

Was this using those new Michigan oversized targets thrown at 20MPH ?

 

Otherwise known as trash can lids.

 

Congrats Jose. And yo hit th enail onthe head when you said you were dry friing as practice. Absolutely the right thing to do. Jordan wall chart works, I use hand made tragets pasted to my patio door windows. And part of my exercise routine as well.

 

I have been using a release for about 10 years now. I only shoot skeet and trap for practice, shoot NSCA for competition. It was tough and first to shoot low gun and FITASC, but now it is second nature. I have to actually keep my finger off the trigger, until just before to try and shoot a pull trigger. One issue is if I want to try a different gun, not many sporting guns are release already, and to boot I shoot left-handed.

 

When I started, years ago, I bought one for my 391. Went practice on a skeet field, first singles then report then true. It didn't take long at all. I have them on all my guns now. My main guns now are Wingmasters. That being said, I don't have the strength in my hands that I used to. I shoot mostly sporting and a little skeet now. Our trap league shut down a couple of years ago. Whenever I get a no bird I let everyone know I'm going to shoot rather than try to hold the gun and hit the release button. It's not a problem with my semi's or crack barrels.

People say all kinds of things about people and releases but I just let that go. They seldom say anything more than once. When my Grandson graduated high school several years back, my wife couldn't go, and that put me in charge of the camera and pictures. I got pictures of most of the football stadium and the graduates feet lol. I couldn't press the durn button. Who the heck knows.

Never quit!! Adapt!!