Get to a place where you can safely shoot your shotgun

You must know that the range of bullets is thousands of meters, and the range of lead bullets is even further. Shooting clubs and shooting ranges are the safest places to be, so start here to learn the basics. Start by shooting some spinning targets with your familiar shotgun before taking them out into the wild to hunt. If you go hunting, make sure you don't enter other people's private property, do it during hunting season, and follow the regulations in your area.

Load the shotgun

First, make sure the gun safety is on. If your shotgun is a "breakaway" shotgun, that means the barrel and breech are hinged together and can be opened to load bullets. The flip is usually at the joint on the gun body near the rear handle to open it. With the shotgun open on its hinges, a bullet can be inserted into the barrel. Turn the gun body back firmly and load the bullet. Keep the gun safety on until you are ready to shoot. For semi-automatic shotguns and gas-operated shotguns, when loading a bullet, hold the bullet with the brass bottom facing the rear of the shotgun, hold the bullet in your hand, and insert it directly into the loading port in front of the trigger guard. For a "shotgun" type hunting rifle, it should be able to hold 3-5 bullets. Or you can pull back the pump action, open the sliding ricochet port, and load one bullet at a time. Push the mobile pump back forward to load the shotgun. Load the shotgun only when you are in the firing position ready to shoot. Make sure to keep the gun safety on until ready to shoot.

When you're ready, pull the trigger smoothly.

With your shotgun pointed at the target and in the firing position, the bottom of the butt resting firmly against your shoulder, flip the gun safety off, and pull the trigger as if you were shaking someone's hand firmly with this hand. Closing your eyes the moment you fire, or suddenly pulling the trigger and raising the gun body, are common mistakes for beginners. Keeping both of your eyes open gives you a good visual picture, which means you can focus on the moving target you're about to shoot and maintain a good view. The recoil of a shotgun is more pronounced than that of most rifles, so there is a process of getting used to it.

Practice your shooting accuracy.

The difficulty of frisbee shooting is that you must consider the speed of the flying target and give the lead, which means that you have to shoot a little ahead of the target's flight direction instead of shooting directly at the target. At the same time, you also have to compensate for the "spread" of the shotgun, which is the range of impact of each bullet. Shotgun bullets have a fairly wide strike radius, which means you only need to aim in the general direction of the target, rather than directly on the target itself. To do this, you need to make sure there's enough space so that the shotgun blast doesn't hit anything it's not supposed to. Shooting clubs are the safest places to shoot shotguns. Let the target fly out in front of you, then raise the gun to aim at its movement trajectory, and rotate the gun body along its movement trajectory. Aim a little ahead of the target on the target's motion trajectory and pull the trigger. Rotate the gun body so that the muzzle stops a little in front of the target. Focus on the target, follow up, inhale, hold the gun in place, shoot, exhale, close the safety, and check the result of the shot. The whole process is similar to hitting a golf ball: watching the ball; making a beautiful turn and hitting the ball, watching the ball fly out.

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