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I expect you have already guessed that I am a clayshooter only.

On Saturday, on one stand only, I failed to pull the trigger three times, not in a row but separately. Did what I always do, pick up the target, swing and all the rest and then just watched it fly away!

Very strange and very perplexing. I have been known to jerk the trigger every now and again in the past but this is something else!

I would appreciate any similar stories or theories, please.

First or second bird each time? It could be you did not release the trigger enough for the second shot.

I'd go with that...or did you just forget???? :lol:

Take the safety off!

Didn't release the trigger after 1st shot?

Thanks. The problem is that I never even went to pull the trigger. I was ready to do so with my finger in the right place but just didn't.

Safety in mind at all times but maybe in this instance my mind was elswhere? I just remembered; it was our last stand and maybe I jut needed a cuppa.

I have watched clays sail over my head before and not taken the shot but for me it was a matter of I missed the moment.

Cherokee wrote:I expect you have already guessed that I am a clayshooter only.

On Saturday, on one stand only, I failed to pull the trigger three times, not in a row but separately. Did what I always do, pick up the target, swing and all the rest and then just watched it fly away!

Very strange and very perplexing. I have been known to jerk the trigger every now and again in the past but this is something else!

I would appreciate any similar stories or theories, please.

Hi, many competition clay shooters suffer from this syndrome, me included. There are as many theory' s as to why "trigger freeze" happens as there are grains of sand. Every one who gets it has their own idea as to what causes it.

My own theory's are, afraid to miss the target so the brain stops you pulling the trigger, AKA a dart thrower getting dart-itis, unable to let go of the dart. Eric Bristow suffered this I believe. Secondly the brain "senses" you are not on target and fails to tell the trigger finger to pull. There are many more.

I stopped competition shooting for a while due to this malady, it's a difficult thing to eradicate completely.

Regards

Phil*

Hi .

May be you were concentrating to hard ! I was shooting in a smallbore comp once it was a 3 second exposure with a 3 second away time to reload and I just stood there looking at the target ready to shoot as it turned away I just said to myself sh*T . I realised I had been concentrating on the target so hard I forgot about the shooting , strange but true .

Dave

This is quite interesting. I do find that concentrating too hard is a bad thing. However, the problem did not manifest itself over 50 targets last Saturday.

Something which may be linked is that at least once during a shooting session I jerk on the trigger before ready to shoot and that brings the gun down and misses the target by a mile.

On another matter, with my nearly new Guerini Maxum, you can move the trigger forwards or backwards and I tried this a couple of shoots ago with the trigger way forward. Only tried it once because the pressure required to pull it was like NIL and things went horribly wrong.

It's back where it should be after just one shot!

Going back to concentration, obviously this is needed but how many times have you called for a target and the wrongly expected one appears out of the corner of your eye and you are immediately on it and blast it? There's no concentration in that.

:? :)