OK, I'm not a TOP-SHOT, but.. Its personal I think. I once asked Micky Rouse (when I had not been shooting long) whether lessons or practice was the best route. He said `lessons for a specific problem, but otherwise its just lead-in-the-air needed`. I would suggest that if you have been shooting a while and are scoring 65-70 or less, with very few straights on the card, and are not improving, then some instruction would be good. There may be a couple of key obvious changes needed that will get spotted. These days, I usually screw up a good card by having just a few bad stands, so it is all about `those problem targets` for me in the main. Notable ones for over the last year or two have been teal, close rabbits, high overhead aways and stuff that hangs and drops in an arc. I have gone and practiced these at AC sporting targets at West London. On those days, I do just a bit of `round` shooting, but mostly practice the problem birds until I learn what to do. Very useful. CSC3