Like his other volume, Precision Shooting, James Russell's Trap Shooting Secrets is thick with tips, advice, techniques, and practice drills for anyone intent on improving his or her skills in a highly refined, complex, and technically demanding sport. Russell begins with a primer on buying the right shotgun, and builds from there on the essentials of basic shooting and a whole gamut of typical beginner's mistakes before moving on to more advanced targets like the psychology of competitive shooting, developing deeper concentration skills, and strategies for how to write off some of the high costs of trap shooting as a tax deduction. As informative as the volume is, it loses some points on style: pages crammed with text will likely glaze over your shooting eye, and its diagrams and illustrations, useful as they are, are relegated to the book's butt end as if appended as an afterthought. --Jeff Silverman


Luca Scribani Rossi, Olympic Medallist
I like Trap Shooting Secrets! It is a powerful book. And the "Precision Shooting" book is really fantastic. I have introduced both books to the Australian Trapshooting Association and I have dedicated a page on my web site to these well-deserved books. To the Author I say, well done, Mr. Russell! It is the very first time I've seen books so well written and completely understandable from the first page! I've read many books talking about competition shooting and they were good reading, but I couldn't learn anything of true value from them, and believe me, I've read them all! These are the best trap shooting books in the world! Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting are books that explains technique and tactics as shotgun shooters need them to be explained. The best shotgun instructional books I've ever seen. If you shoot ATA trap, DTL, ABT, Double Trap or Olympic trap, get these books right away! They really can improve your shooting with a high degree of precision no other book or video can give you. There are precision shotgun shooting techniques explained in these books of great value. When I read the books, I found it so true the advice given were exactly matching with the experiences I made through years of hi-level Olympic and International shooting. I wished I had these two books when I first started clay target shooting! I wouldn't have had to work so hard to reach my Olympic achievements and my career may have gone even further than it has! I strongly recommend shotgun competition shooters to read both, Trap Shooting Secrets, and Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible. If you read these books you simply can't go wrong. Just follow the steps outlined and you'll leap ahead in the ranking of any competition you'll attend. That's my recommendation.


Daro Handy / Hall of Fame Professional Trap Shooter
There is a lot of constructive information in Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible. The concepts in these two books are strongly presented, understandable and easily applied. If you would like to step into the world where professional trapshooter's reside, these books can reveal valuable technical information to improve your shooting. And, in conjunction with a qualified shooting instructor, these two books should give the trapshooter a high measure of success


Phil Kiner / All-American Trap Shooter
I have reviewed both of James Russell's new trapshooting books--I found them to be full of useful trapshooting tips. These books will be an excellent addition to every trapshooter's library.


Gary (Trapshooter from Smith River, CA)
Amazing! I want you to know you are not selling books you are selling dreams! Precision Shooting book and your Trap Shooting Secrets book is precisely and exactly what this sport needed for many years! Reading your books was easy to read and like taking a breath of fresh air. I just couldn't discover what I was doing wrong until I read your fantastic books. So many problems get fixed so fast and all of the advice and instructions you give all make perfect sense. Better yet they work as advertised! If it were not for your books I'd still be shooting poor scores, but not anymore. Your books are professionally printed with strong durable covers. I take the books to every trapshoot and they hold up real nice. The illustrations are powerfully effective too. You are charging too little money for these books. They are worth much more. I've won so much option money with them it's a great investment! You were right about one thing (among many) I'd never be able to learn these things on my own! A big thank you to you!


Dave (Trapshooter from Reno, NV)
I've been reading both your books Trap Shooting Secrets and Precision Shooting and think they have helped already. The books are a lot of good info, and well worth the price of admission. Thanks a bunch!


Harry - (Trapshooter from South Carolina)
I ordered the Precision Shooting book after reading your Trap Shooting Secrets book. Great information! I've been waiting for years for something like this. I always knew the pros were holding back or not giving out the real way to shoot. I have several videotapes and they always seem to lleave some little tip or procedure out. My advice on reading your books is to read and study only a few pages at a time, as you suggest. Otherwise the brain goes into overload as you give out a LOT of information. I tried your tip on calculating the proper side to shoot a target (the non-straightaway straightaway target) in practice last Saturday. Shoot it on the wrong side or try to center it and you just get a regular break. Shoot it on the proper side and get a smoke ball! THIS STUFF IS GREAT! I was so impressed with your web site that I ordered your books. I read everything and my scores went up 5-birds in 100. The very first time out changing from my eye holds to your eye holds I shot 49/50.


Joy - (Trapshooter from Rhode Island)
"I have been trained by top notch instructors from Remington and Federal and an Olympic trainer and have never received the information that I did from you. I learned one heck of a lot. P.S.: I am NOT going to tell my friends about this!"


Ed - (Trapshooter from Marlton, New Jersey)
"I enjoyed your Trap Shooting Secrets book so much that I am ordering your other book, "Precision Shooting - The Trapshooter's Bible." Right after reading your Trap Shooting Secrets book I won the ATA North Eastern Grand Satellite shoot on September 1997 and I just started shooting in June of 1997!! I'm going to the Grand American in Vandalia, Ohio!"


Richard Gentry - (Olympic Trapshooter))
Trapshooting Secrets by James Russell covers every aspect of the game. If you are looking for superiour advice, and are tired of the same worn pro telling you what you are doing wrong this book is all you need to enter into serious competition. If you are just starting out, this book presents the fundamentals in a way that will help you remember them everytime you shoot. Young or old, pro or not this book will help you identify what area of your game needs work.

Note: Richard Gentry's long list of Olympic trapshooting achievments is impressive indeed!.


Luca Rossi Scribanni - (Olympic Trapshooter and Shooting School
I like Precision Shooting and Trap Shooting Secrets. Both are very powerful books! I am introducing it to the Australian Trapshooting Association and other high-caliber shooters worldwide and I have dedicated a page on my web site to the books. You can't go wrong. Simply follow the instructions in these textbooks and you'll outpace t he competition. If I had these books years ago my career achievements ma y have even been better than they are today! I highly recommend these books for anyone shooting the trap discipline. Mr. Russell has done a great job here. Best instructional trapshooting books you can buy! DTL, Olympic, ATA trapshooters should have both of these books in hand. Money well spent and an investment in your success!


Book Description
"Trap Shooting Secrets" takes you into the world where professionals reside. With over 132 practice tips it's like having a shooting coach by your side. The book explains setup, stance, squad timing and pitfalls, eye and gun hold points, sight pictures, target angles, spot shooting, zone shooting, timing, good and bad pulls. Point of impact adjustments, reliable hot core patterns, shotshell selection, eye focus, target behavior, swing timing, call timing, flinching, slump-busting procedures, feeling the shot, moving gun techniques, back-sighting the sight beads, chokes, seeing targets in slow-motion, mind-set. Concentration, trigger control and much, much, more to list here. No other trapshooting book reveals more details, especially for handicap long-yardage shooting. Softbound 8x11 format, 170-pages, 16-chapters, over 40-illustrations. Equivalent to a 255-page 5x8 size book! If you shoot trap, you definitely need "Trap Shooting Secrets." Stop missing targets and start winning the option money and competition events. This book will pay for itself many times over with event winnings. Satisfaction guaranteed.


Download Description
This clay target shooting book is heavily endorsed by professional shotgun shooters worldwide. First technical trap shooting book published and still the #1 bestseller. Readers win trap shooting competitions. Highly illustrated with over 85 illustrations, like having a shooting coach standing by your side. You will not be disappointed! You will see extraordinary improvement in your shotgun shooting.


From the Publisher
This book is taking the trapshooting arena by storm. We knew it was a good book, but did not expect Olympic shooters and the schools that teach the Olympians would take to the book so strongly. Sales in the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) magazine "Trap & Field" are climbing fast. Shotgun Sports Magazine has picked up the book. Customer complimentary letters are arriving raving about the book. "You are selling the book at too low cost. It is worth much more!" "Using your book I won the event." Now we know we have a winner. The book certainly has the inside secrets to winning high scores in trapshooting. Videotapes on shooting simply cannot compete with Russell's books. The instructions given in Trap Shooting Secrets is extraordinarily precise and much deeper in subject matter than the videos on the market today. Like having a coach by your side telling you what to do, how it should feel, and why you're missing specific targets, flinching, tuning up your timing, why your eye and gun holds are defective, and the list goes on. Russell knows how to communicate this highly objective trapshooting sport to get the shooter's scores up, fast. No easy feat, but Russell pulls it off.


From the Author
Since I started shooting trap, I longed for a guidebook to tell me the tricks of the trade. I couldn't find any that really got down and explained exactly what to do. I had to learn the hard way, like everyone else and wasted a ton of money to boot. The trapshooting books I did read, just didn't tell me what to do. I wanted a text book, a book to show me what I am doing wrong and help me get it right. To my surprise, no such book existed. I then spent hundreds of dollars in video tapes with the same results. That is when I decided to write the book myself so I interviewed many All-American top gun shooters before writing Trap Shooting Secrets, and those listed in the ATA and PITA hall of fame! Over the years I've taken the professional shooter's advice and tips and put it together in Trap Shooting Secrets. The moment the book was published letters arrive from readers who won tournament trapshoots, including the highly competitive Grand events! Trap Shooting Secrets delivers very fast results because it fills in the missing knowledge keeping your scores down. I have found the secrets to breaking out of slumps and to end flinching once and for all. Flinching is not primarily caused by recoil as commonly thought, and, a release trigger is not the real cure. The cure is within the "internal time clock" all shooters have, yet each shooter must and can discover it to master trigger timing and control. So if you're in a slump or flinching, Trap Shooting Secrets will bring you out of it quickly. If you want to raise your scores there is no better book on the market. I have tested the techniques and they do work, immediately. You don't have to spend money on gun modifications to bust out of flinching, slumps and poor scores. Trap Shooting Secrets really does have the powerful tips to guide you into higher scores. I've covered every subject from stance, setup routines, gun and eye hold points, muzzle swing dynamics and geometry, eye training, target acquisition tricks, point of impact, shell selection, winning hot-core patterns, and hundreds more tips and techniques. If you're a serious shooter who wants to win those big State and Grand shoots, you'll need Trap Shooting Secrets to give you that edge your competitor doesn't have... inner knowledge! Secrets of trapshooting! And, there are plenty of secrets revealed in this book which explains why you now can not compete with the pros until you start using these inner secrets they know all so well. Believe me, there are many secrets professional trapshooters use the average shooter has no idea whatsoever exists. I've performed years of research and interviews. My engineering background gave me the insight to ask the right questions, study the technical aspects of the game and formulate the answers trapshooters need to know. And age is not a factor. Many veteran shooters would shoot way better applying these easy to use techniques. You are going to learn things you never knew before. Things you've never read in any magazine or saw in any videotape. Just imagine if you had the opportunity to take private lessons from a professional trapshooter where he teaches you those inside secrets. That's what you get with Trap Shooting Secrets... personal advice and instruction. The choice is yours. You can read Trap Shooting Secrets and have this shooting coach by your side to crank up your scores, to bail you out when you start missing targets and tumble into a slump. Or you can choose not to read the book and be satisfied with the scores you already have. If professional shooters (who teach and shoot trap for a living) and Olympic trapshooting schools recommend shooters to buy Trap Shooting Secrets, well, it say's it all right there.


From the Back Cover
Lists testimonials from professional shotgun target shooters.


About the Author
The author has written over 13 books and screenplays.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book is taking the trapshooting arena by storm. We knew it was a good book, but did not expect Olympic shooters and the schools that teach the Olympians would take to the book so strongly. Sales in the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) magazine "Trap & Field" are climbing fast. Shotgun Sports Magazine has picked up the book. Customer complimentary letters are arriving raving about the book. "You are selling the book at too low cost. It is worth much more!" "Using your book I won the event." Now we know we have a winner. The book certainly has the inside secrets to winning high scores in trapshooting. Videotapes on shooting simply cannot compete with Russell's books. The instructions given in Trap Shooting Secrets is extraordinarily precise and much deeper in subject matter than the videos on the market today. Like having a coach by your side telling you what to do, how it should feel, and why you're missing specific targets, flinching, tuning up your timing, why your eye and gun holds are defective, and the list goes on. Russell knows how to communicate this highly objective trapshooting sport to get the shooter's scores up, fast. No easy feat, but Russell pulls it off.

SYNOPSIS

"Since I started shooting trap, I longed for a guidebook to tell me the tricks of the trade. I couldn't find any that really got down and explained exactly what to do. I had to learn the hard way, like everyone else and wasted a ton of money to boot. The trapshooting books I did read, just didn't tell me what to do. I wanted a text book, a book to show me what I am doing wrong and help me get it right. To my surprise, no such book existed. I then spent hundreds of dollars in video tapes with the same results. That is when I decided to write the book myself so I interviewed many All-American top gun shooters before writing Trap Shooting Secrets, and those listed in the ATA and PITA hall of fame! Over the years I've taken the professional shooter's advice and tips and put it together in Trap Shooting Secrets. The moment the book was published letters arrive from readers who won tournament trapshoots, including the highly competitive Grand events! Trap Shooting Secrets delivers very fast results because it fills in the missing knowledge keeping your scores down. I have found the secrets to breaking out of slumps and to end flinching once and for all. Flinching is not primarily caused by recoil as commonly thought, and, a release trigger is not the real cure. The cure is within the "internal time clock" all shooters have, yet each shooter must and can discover it to master trigger timing and control.

So if you're in a slump or flinching, Trap Shooting Secrets will bring you out of it quickly. If you want to raise your scores there is no better book on the market. I have tested the techniques and they do work, immediately. You don't have to spend money on gun modifications to bust out of flinching, slumps and poor scores. Trap Shooting Secrets really does have the powerful tips to guide you into higher scores. I've covered every subject from stance, setup routines, gun and eye hold points, muzzle swing dynamics and geometry, eye training, target acquisition tricks, point of impact, shell selection, winning hot-core patterns, and hundreds more tips and techniques. If you're a serious shooter who wants to win those big State and Grand shoots, you'll need Trap Shooting Secrets to give you that edge your competitor doesn't have... inner knowledge! Secrets of trapshooting! And, there are plenty of secrets revealed in this book which explains why you now can not compete with the pros until you start using these inner secrets they know all so well. Believe me, there are many secrets professional trapshooters use the average shooter has no idea whatsoever exists. I've performed years of research and interviews. My engineering background gave me the insight to ask the right questions, study the technical aspects of the game and formulate the answers trapshooters need to know. And age is not a factor. Many veteran shooters would shoot way better applying these easy to use techniques.

You are going to learn things you never knew before. Things you've never read in any magazine or saw in any videotape. Just imagine if you had the opportunity to take private lessons from a professional trapshooter where he teaches you those inside secrets. That's what you get with Trap Shooting Secrets... personal advice and instruction. The choice is yours. You can read Trap Shooting Secrets and have this shooting coach by your side to crank up your scores, to bail you out when you start missing targets and tumble into a slump. Or you can choose not to read the book and be satisfied with the scores you already have. If professional shooters (who teach and shoot trap for a living) and Olympic trapshooting schools recommend shooters to buy Trap Shooting Secrets, well, it say's it all right there.