The Orvis Wing-Shooting Handbook

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Summary: Move, Mount, Shoot
Review: An extremely well-written book about the art of shotgunning. Bruce Bowlen explains shooting technique with a thoroughness and clarity unmatched by other authors. It is a comfortable and informative read. One month after reading this book and adopting many of its suggested techniques, I shot my first perfect round of Skeet.

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Summary: Excellent book for the intermediate shotgunner.
Review: Bruce Bowlen's book is clearly written and well illustrated. I am confident it helped my techniques and success on recent Pheasant and Quail shoots. It may also help skeet shooters. It will help anyone "fit" a shotgun and mount it better.

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Summary: Concise and Informative
Review: Great practical advice for advanced and beginning shooters. It's geared more toward the bird hunter than the clay shooter, however it has some great information for clay shhooters as well.

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Summary: Concise and Informative
Review: Great practical advice for advanced and beginning shooters. It's geared more toward the bird hunter than the clay shooter, however it has some great information for clay shhooters as well.

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Summary: The ABC's of shooting
Review: Having trouble with your golf swing? Go find the pro at your local golf course. Having trouble with your shooting? This book may help. It's a great little guide book.

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Summary: The ABC's of shooting
Review: Having trouble with your golf swing? Go find the pro at your local golf course. Having trouble with your shooting? This book may help. It's a great little guide book.

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Summary: Good advice on developing consistent technique
Review: In this useful little book, Bruce Bowlen lays out the English approach to wing-shooting. Many American shotgunners, he points out, are already comfortable with the rifle and thus try to transfer their rifle shooting skills to the shotgun. This is a mistake, he says. Shotgunning is a different animal altogether, relying on the shooter's natural sense of timing and ability to point. The English approach harnesses these instinctive abilities, combining them with solid, consistent technique to produce successful wing-shooting.

The book contains detailed guidelines on every aspect of shooting: stance, lead, follow-through, timing, etc. The chapter on gun fit was a bit tedious, taking up a third of the book. However, I'll probably revisit it next time I buy a shotgun. Overall, Bowlen's advice has been helpful to me and I'm sure I'll return to the book again.

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Summary: a great book teaching shotgun shooting
Review: This book gives a quick and easy to understand method of shooting a shotgun. It decribes the instintive method which is perhaps the best for most bird hunters when there is no time to think about each shot. A must read for those wanting to learn to shoot.

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Summary: Good Measure and Fit Information
Review: This is a pretty good book that actually spends more time covering fit of a gun than any other single subject. The actual shooting process is described in a unique but very effective concept. Any wingshooter could pick up a pointer or two from this brief guide.

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Summary: Good Measure and Fit Information
Review: This is a pretty good book that actually spends more time covering fit of a gun than any other single subject. The actual shooting process is described in a unique but very effective concept. Any wingshooter could pick up a pointer or two from this brief guide.