[DwightKeenan]

Just curious about shooting sporting clays, skeet and doubles with release trigger. I feel I could shoot trap with release alright, but maybe confusing a little for release-pull-release again.

I do all of them with a double release with no issues at all. Now I am being asked to go Pheasant hunting un two weeks and have to go back to a pull for the first time 7 years...should be interesting.

 

[Biged]

Tron, do you shoot sub-gauge? Tube set? I have double release in my pro sporter and use the Briley Sidekick 2.0's.... they work great.

 

[prplgoat]

I do all of them with a double release with no issues at all. Now I am being asked to go Pheasant hunting un two weeks and have to go back to a pull for the first time 7 years...should be interesting.

Ya, perhaps when you don't get to call the bird or prepare to shoot, you'll have no problem going back to pull!

 

[Tron]

Tron, do you shoot sub-gauge? Tube set? I have double release in my pro sporter and use the Briley Sidekick 2.0's.... they work great.

Haven't got a tube set yet, but it's on my want list.

 

[Charlie Becknell]

that seems like a lot of opportunity for a unintentional firing to me. Why the heck does he have to set the trigger before closing the gun?

I've known a few shooters, high volume, that shoot releases, however, they have to set the release before putting it on their shoulder.

 

[Charlie Becknell]

Let go triggers are the work of the devil.

Do they still make triggers that go off when you pull them?

 

[Charlie Becknell]

As an addendum, I spoke to Robert Paxton a while back and he said that after 15 years of shooting release triggers he had gone back to pull. Said he couldn’t explain it. He Is shooting primarily Helice these days. Anyone else successfully gone back?

In my Perazzi, I "pull" out one release trigger, then I "release" another trigger to replace it.

 

[cmhunts]

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.

Ive been contemplating a release. Shot my buddies the other day, couldn't make myself fli ch.

 

[Snooky]

Very very few. All the ones I know were originally high volume Trap shooters.

I started years ago in sporting. Starting to see more around here. Flinching appears to show up in any discipline. I still flinch occasionally but nothing else I can do. Also with me, I'm very sensitive with set and release settings. Other than 5-1/2 and 2-1/2 with very little creep and I can have problems.

 

[JACK]

@Snooky pull release numbers would not work for me but his knowledge of what works for him is all that is important. KNOW WHAT WORKS FOR YOU and forget what others want you to try

 

[bj.mckay]

What kind of rod & reel do you use.

Your going to get banned for that one

 

[daddiooo]

At one point my flinch was so bad that I was considering a release mouse for my computer. LOL

 

[prplgoat]

I do all of them with a double release with no issues at all. Now I am being asked to go Pheasant hunting un two weeks and have to go back to a pull for the first time 7 years...should be interesting.

I never really thought about this, but is it common for a release trigger trap guy when shooting in doubles to have a release first shot then pull second shot?

 

[miketmx]

is it common for a release trigger trap guy when shooting in doubles to have a release first shot then pull second shot?

The Party Line on this is that the great majority suggest going to Double Release instead of Release/Pull. In my own personal story I went to a Release trigger in 1990 after a attending a Clinic by Kay Ohye. I got a working Double Release trigger for my MX-3 in 2005 and for the first 4 years my Doubles average was just over 90%. Now 20 years later at age 85 with the same working Double Release trigger my Doubles average is in the 70's. I can smoke the first bird right away and flinch on the second bird with very poor trigger control. I think that I am cross-firing when I am trying to find the 2nd bird. I sometimes think that I would be better off with Release/Pull. Phil Kiner posted years ago that he could shoot Doubles with either setup but has decided on Double Release. I know how I am going save money on registered shoots next year.