Technical targets

“Technical targets” seems to rear it’s head quite often when the talk is about clay shooting. Can somebody enlighten me as to what the definition is!

chesterse said:

“Technical targets” seems to rear it’s head quite often when the talk is about clay shooting. Can somebody enlighten me as to what the definition is!

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its a term i use when i cant hit em  !!!   

It’s a term that annoys the hell out of me, a clay is a clay thrown from a trap, how can that be technical? Complete BS

I would class a technical target as a target that is deemed to be tough but doesn't use distance or speed to make it difficult.

Jonny English said:

I would class a technical target as a target that is deemed to be tough but doesn't use distance or speed to make it difficult.

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This abouts sums it up. And there definitely is " technical targets " or very  deceptive targets.  

Jonny English said:

I would class a technical target as a target that is deemed to be tough but doesn't use distance or speed to make it difficult.

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We call that clever course setting, the skill of the course setting is to deceive the shooter. Nothing technical about it.

Always thought it was another word for kin hard targets. 

Yeah, it really just means a target that is fairly hard to hit, but not because it’s 50+ yards away 

Thanks for the comments - it sounds like deceptive targets is more appropriate than technical targets.

Thought I was missing out on something

I would also add to this.

A technical pair for me is a pair of targets thrown in a way which requires optimal method application. With particular focus on hold points, gun speed, where your eyes need to be and what you should do at the transition phase between targets all being critical.

For example a standard crosser can be shot any which way (method-wise) but if thrown as the second part of a pair it could be the case that you’re forced into a certain acquisition point, gun speed, method and kill point. Therefore if you’re unable to kill the first bird in the appropriate way, you’ll be at a disadvantage on the second and potentially miss.

Concordantly if you execute both with “technical excellence” then both could seem relatively straightforward and repeatable.

Good target setters can do that to you, and as many have said it’s quite different to simply being a hard to hit target. 

I’m sure @k80ben could summarise much more eloquently than I can however.