I bought this book for my nephew who shoots clay's and he said he loved the book and it was very informative.

The book explains in easy to understand detail what I need to do and what I need to avoid. the rest is up to me.

Frank
Bronx

I've been shooting for 4 years now after taking 15 years off. This book has a seemingly endless amount of great, technical advice and tips. Diagrams especially helpful. I will re-read it over and over again as I try to become a better shot. Great buy, great book. Curt L.

Lots of good tips, but especially for anyone who wanted to learn about all the shotgun sports. Another recommended learning source is Leon Measures - "Shoot where you Look" in DVD and Bill McGuire's - "Focus and Fire" DVD.

I can warmly recommend this book both for the novice and some more experienced trap clay sporter. A lot of illustrations with easy text, a very logical approach to major techniques. In all a very good info and "inspiration" source.

Whether you're unsure about what is wrong with your gear or yourself. This book gives a great in-sight into what probably is the problem & then how to go about fixing it. For the novist, it gets you asking the right questions & seeking advice, for those more experienced it has some excellent tips and strategies. Well written & excellent diagrams.

I bought this book for my 15 year old son who is a member of the Scholastic Clay Target Program team at our local sportsmen's club. He immediately applied some of the techniques and on Saturday, was the happy recipient of the Top Gun award for the club! Thanks for a great book!

Beginning shooters, all the way through expert will learn a lot with this handbook on shotgun sports. Graphics help explain the necessary techniques.

Very helpfull. lots of good info. easy to read, good illustrations A good book to have for anyone interested in the sport. This book has it all.

Excellent for an introduction to the shotgun sports, and also valuable for more advanced shooters. Great graphics, and enjoyable, easy to read and understand prose, really explain the technique to improve your shooting. Beautifully printed and edited, with just the right amount of info. By far the best of the dozen or so books I've read on this subject. I've given this as gifts to a handful of new shooters, and they've all loved it.
DZI, Maui, Hawaii

Excellent for an introduction to the shotgun sports, and also valuable for more advanced shooters. Great graphics, and enjoyable, easy to read and understand prose, really explain the technique to improve your shooting. Beautifully printed and edited, with just the right amount of info. By far the best of the dozen or so books I've read on this subject. I've given this as gifts to a handful of new shooters, and they've all loved it.
DZI, Maui, Hawaii

I shot a bit of trap and clay pigeons as a kid and wasn't very good at it. I really liked it though.

Now that I have a son that is old enough, I wanted to be able to enjoy "Breaking Clays" with him. I didn't want him to go through the frustrations I did, and I wanted to get better myself.

This book provides practical advice for doing just that. I found the concepts and examples extremely well explained and easy to follow.

I'm not an expert, but I think this book certainly made me feel like I had an extremely sound foundation for practicing and skill-building.

A fine book!

I have read 5 sporting clays books and this is the best so far. Includes all that one would hope to find. Well written, easy to follow except for the diagrams which are not linked to the surrounding text.

I have read 5 sporting clays books and this is the best so far. Includes all that one would hope to find. Well written, easy to follow except for the diagrams which are not linked to the surrounding text.

Chris Batha is a master gun-fitter and experienced competition shotgunner. This book is intended as an introduction to all the major shooting sports -- trap, skeet, and sporting clays -- and covers everything from selecting a gun to pulling the trigger. I found it a useful book for several reasons: it's logical and linear, ie. you get from A to B easily; it has great easy to read illustrations; it's evenly paced and doesn't get bogged down in any particular part of shooting clays. (I bought this book because I had read a couple of articles in magazines he writes for which I had liked -- which were about shotgun loads, chokes, and patterning -- and which were frankly almost too technical for me to pay attention to.) This book doesn't fall into this trap (no pun intended); the counter-argument is, though, that as a great introduction to the shotgunning sports, it also doesn't go deep enough into the areas that I personally would have liked more of. For example, how might I correct for chasing clays and end up missing behind? or, why isn't more choke at greater distance necessarily better? In short, an easy-to-read, well-diagramed introduction to trap, skeet, and sporting clays and 5-stars worth for the complete novice but 4-stars for the intermediate shooter.

Has to be one of the top two or three books written on the subject. a must have in any clay or wing shooters library.

This book describes in a step-by-step manner a very effective way to become a much more effective shotgunner. I've read a lot of "shotgunning" books. This is one of the best.