Don't Look Down the Barrel | Shotgun Tips with Gil Ash

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  • Gil Ash of OSP Shooting School explains where to focus your vision when shotgun shooting.
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ความคิดเห็น • 56

  • @forrestmohrman8768
    @forrestmohrman8768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gil...I am 66 and only been trap shooting for 4 years. Tried both eyes...one eye...sight blinders and many other horrible failures. I eventually admitted my problem was not the gun and was my horrible flinch. Solved by a release trigger. Went back to two eyes and shot 98 and 97 consecutively. Two eyes is a must and the gun has to become invisible when the bird leaves the house. Learning to use the periphery while concentrating on the bird takes a lot of practice...something that has to be developed. I use this video quite often while teaching trap here in Ohio. Thanks!

    • @xiaominsong
      @xiaominsong 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said!

  • @GalaxyDaveD
    @GalaxyDaveD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Gil, as a new shooter, I was squinting my less dominant eye and aiming and looking down the barrel. Average bird hits, 8. I changed to both eyes open and concentrating on the bird. 18 to 20 average kills. Thank you for your insights.

    • @paulcassidy6486
      @paulcassidy6486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a cross eye dominant shooter, I tend to close one eye just before I slap the tigger.if I am shooting a sxs,my left /lead hand seems to block my left eye enough to keep both eyes open

  • @itsobvious5835
    @itsobvious5835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the best explanation I have seen on this.
    There is a lot of confusion on this because I have listened to top pro shooters talk about what they see, and they completely contradict each other.
    There has to be a visual awareness of the barrel.

  • @yimingzhh
    @yimingzhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Good stuff. New to the sport, it took me a while to under what Gil means. Just a minor suggestion, add two arrows in the diagrams to indicate moving directions of the target and the barrel. This will clarify what Gil means by "seeing the sharp target behind the fuzzy barrel."

    • @Hunter7509
      @Hunter7509 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      forget about him. there are many good vid. here

  • @strobestruck
    @strobestruck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This confused the hell out of me, and I’m pretty good behind a shot gun

    • @Hunter7509
      @Hunter7509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, amazing. I know he knows it but can not explain it

    • @TonyPac-ub3dd
      @TonyPac-ub3dd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It does happen but it's not going to happen sitting on the couch

  • @jeffmckee2981
    @jeffmckee2981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What is the purpose of a bead or fiber optic sights on a shotgun barrel? When wing shooting you should never look at the bead.

  • @christopherm9494
    @christopherm9494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Wish I had it 25 years ago! Super appreciate you taking your time and expertise and sharing them here with us. Thank you.

  • @moorgary2163
    @moorgary2163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video ! This is one of my major issue that struggling to keep the barrel fuzzy and focus only on the target. Not to mention the positions that was clarified in this video. Thanks a lot ! Cant wait to try out and hope wont fail next time on the exam : )

  • @grahamedwards9920
    @grahamedwards9920 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s a really neat way of explaining a solution to my current problem. A variation on the “ignore the barrels/bead, concentrate on the bird”.

    • @TonyPac-ub3dd
      @TonyPac-ub3dd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don't ignore the bead you see it with your minds eye as you focused on the bird. Minds eye peripheral vision or what ever name you want to use. You can focused on clay bird and still see you bead. Then you just move your bead in front of bird.

  • @saifuimaono9132
    @saifuimaono9132 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've just shooting.. and I need all the help I can get. Thanks for the tip.. love from New Zealand 💚

  • @ashy1423
    @ashy1423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for your time, expertise and another great video 👍
    Stay well and God Bless

  • @istimsakabdulbasir2438
    @istimsakabdulbasir2438 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have this a lot, "don't focus on your sights focus on the target". I don't shoot shotgun but I do dry fire with AR-style carbines. What I practice is getting the rifle to the target as fast as possible and acquire good sight alignment. The target is in my center vision, the sights on my rifle are blurred

  • @boriskozhukhovskiy5309
    @boriskozhukhovskiy5309 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This tip really helped me. Thank you, Mr Ash!

  • @Digital_Photog1995
    @Digital_Photog1995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this tip!

  • @adambeckett3826
    @adambeckett3826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve put this into practice I only follow the clay with both eyes so if I’m looking at the clay how is my gun giving the lead it needs because I’m still not hitting clays consistent but I can see the lead is wrong which would relate to only looking at the clay any advice I could get would be great

  • @archerysolves3289
    @archerysolves3289 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey Gil I was just saying I’m the kid that got your autograph at the airport in Houston

  • @Hunter7509
    @Hunter7509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I shoot shotgun and Gil had a hard time explaining something very simple. Amazing

  • @alohahouse78
    @alohahouse78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thanks

  • @ronwilson3414
    @ronwilson3414 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoy your videos. They sure have helped me out.

  • @rodneyzurek4900
    @rodneyzurek4900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have been shooting for over 50 years and I don’t understand a word he’s saying!

    • @Hunter7509
      @Hunter7509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you are not the only one. same here

  • @fernandosegovia98
    @fernandosegovia98 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I took me a years of not understanding. I understand how to properly shoot now. Its hard to explain for someone who knows, Hard to understand for someone who doesn’t.

  • @HicVenariHicSalta
    @HicVenariHicSalta ปีที่แล้ว

    In every Single Video are informations Thats Completly True, and i dont know before. Or, i dont think about before. When I think about it, it Males 100% sense

  • @flmsailor5110
    @flmsailor5110 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still, nobody talks about TWO barrels when focused on target! How does that work?

  • @shooters99
    @shooters99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Confusing me, i m unable to understand what gill wannna say, first time ever. Plz help someone.

  • @Sheepdog1314
    @Sheepdog1314 ปีที่แล้ว

    different than handgun. I was taught to see the front sight clear and the target fuzzy - on a hand gun.

  • @SaposJoint
    @SaposJoint 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That must have come naturally to me. I started bird hunting with my dad when I was eight. He got annoyed when I got to the point that I didn't miss...

  • @parkerjaeger2076
    @parkerjaeger2076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That’s literally exactly opposite of correct. You always want to see the target through the gun. Keep your head planted on the comb. The gun moves with your head. Every time you lift your head to see the target before the gun gets there, you will miss. My coach called it peaking over the fence lol. Don’t lift your head and peak over the fence

  • @jalanc5095
    @jalanc5095 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do they talk about gun fit, and the eye being in the right place (when the gun is mounted) and put beads on barrels and then say don’t look down the barrel look across it.

  • @wolco003
    @wolco003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video is in the Periphery...

  • @tubero37
    @tubero37 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That was very confusing

  • @redditdevilsadvocate.5134
    @redditdevilsadvocate.5134 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro this is a lot of information

  • @Thoroughly_Wet
    @Thoroughly_Wet ปีที่แล้ว

    This is called over explaining to someone who's overthinking.
    Simply put, focus on the target not the sight

  • @williamsequeira1163
    @williamsequeira1163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I found this hugely confusing.

  • @musicman1eanda
    @musicman1eanda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sounds like a fancy confusing way of saying "stay target focused, not front sight focused"

  • @jklo1313
    @jklo1313 ปีที่แล้ว

    dude, they need to rethink and reshoot ( no pun intended) that one. confused the hell outta me after really trying to understand.

  • @sukhvinder42
    @sukhvinder42 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try to explain at shooting range

    • @TheNSSF
      @TheNSSF  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/tXo0WUiCx34/w-d-xo.html

  • @sofalugger
    @sofalugger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its amazing how many `top` shooters I meet say they dont like this or that RIB on a particular gun?. .I say you should,nt be looking at the rib? same with beads?!. . Can remember last Olympics a chap had got white tape wrapped around end of barrels, saying it helps in peripheral vision. . .Mmmmmmm. . .

  • @thetruthserum2816
    @thetruthserum2816 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Or, check out this video in action: th-cam.com/video/ZnRXGligzLA/w-d-xo.html

  • @Procharged32
    @Procharged32 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In dtl u don't get time for all that crap.

  • @jamesparmenter2438
    @jamesparmenter2438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I shoot in the 80s. I see absolute no barrel or bead.

    • @Kh2456
      @Kh2456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +James Parmenter and that’s why you shoot in the 80’s...

    • @Hunter7509
      @Hunter7509 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      very good technique

    • @rotasaustralis
      @rotasaustralis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, that's why you shoot in the 80's.
      Gill Ash is probably the most prolific bullshitter of all the self proclaimed coaches.

  • @scummy73dude64
    @scummy73dude64 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Train your brain or remain the same.

  • @pilsley4737
    @pilsley4737 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is not a good teaching video. I've watched many of your older ones that are. If you replace a shooting video of gun, shot & real target you don't have much.