CPSA Method

[welshboy454 3]

Can anybody explain the CPSA method of shooting clays ?

[yellow belly 0]

i thought it was start behind the clay, move to the clay, push through and pull the trigger!

 

now i dont like that method, i use maintained lead. but its everyone to their own, and the stlye that the person who taught them to shoot.

 

thats my 2pence worth, feel free to correct me if im wrong!

[welshboy454 3]

i thought it was start behind the clay, move to the clay, push through and pull the trigger!

 

now i dont like that method, i use maintained lead. but its everyone to their own, and the stlye that the person who taught them to shoot.

 

thats my 2pence worth, feel free to correct me if im wrong!

Many thanks - I have always shot game and I suppose developed my own style which seems to vary depending on the target. A quick snap shot at woodcock or a pull away on a long crossing pigeon/duck pheasant.

I found this on another forum and it seems worth sharing .

 

A good coach should be able to teach all techniques, give the pupil a fundamental understanding of them, and a way of analysing each clay and deciding on which technique to apply for that one. We all vary, and where one person may excel with maintained lead, another might find controlled swing through better. No coach should force a method on you, what they should be doing is expanding your knowledge of available preparation, stance, mount and technique variations, and then help you develop the ones that work best for you.

 

The main technique areas can be broken down as follows:

 

Swing through - smoke trail - good for corporate days and getting success early, but limiting on higher scores because of lack of control. Gun hold is back at trap and no lead is perceived. This is also Churchill, where you fire at the bird and the speed of swing provides all lead. The place this is used the most is in trap disciplines where you follow up the clay trajectory and shoot at the target. Gun set up and swing speed do the rest.

 

Controlled swing through - uses good gun hold points and visual pick-ups, gun moves through the clay under control and lead is perceived. Digweed uses this a lot.

 

Pull away - AKA CPSA Method - gun comes up onto the target and so speed and direction are established. Only has one variable, the lead, and is therefore the most fundamental method, and the one that should be mastered first. All other are effectively variations on this once it is understood.

 

Maintained lead - gun comes up in front stays in front - really good for ESK ( but OS tend to use Pull away if using the Russian techniques). Downside is that it can be learnt for all 14 skeet targets, but go to a sporting layout where a similar clay may be faster / slower etc and it can come unstuck, as a new sight picture needs to be learned for a new target. If you are proficient at this you build up whats known as a sight picture library, but you will need a fall back method when an ML sight picture fails.

 

Spot or ambush - useful for hand rolled bunnies, or very long FITASC targets over tree lines or hedges with reference points. Used by many game shooters, simply lift the gun with minimum flight line swing to a spot in the sky where the shot load will intercept the target. This may be straight at it or miles in front!

 

The last main variation is what Bidwell calls Move Mount Shoot, where there is controlled swing, slower than the clay, to a maintained lead ambush point. This is a method with great economy of movement.

 

Most of these need to be learnt or understood both gun up and gun down, as there are applications for both.

[potshot 0]

Coming from behind, point at the target, track it, overtake it, squeeze trigger and follow through. Simples.

[devon flighter 421]

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