Trap shooters are a bit different but Sporting Clay and Skeet also has more than a few characters. I had a friend who was the classic "almost" top gun shooter. AAA or AA across the board. Shot a lot of high scores, ran hundred straights, learned how to be a decent shootoff shooter. But he was almost always a brides maid, never the bride unless he just got lucky. May have won one shootoff in 10 or 20.
A decent fellow but was as squirrelly as they came about things. He once drove 75 miles from home before he realized he forgot his lucky shoes and had to turn around, drive 75 miles back home and start over. He was wearing the exact same shoe l, as the lucky ones, but they were not his lucky pair of shoes so he drove back home. Every little thing had to be exactly right when he was shooting. When he loaded his O/U he placed the shells so the AA on the rim was horizontal both top and bottom shells. He caught his shells when they ejected unless he missed and then he never touched that shell. Did the same in practice. All misses were allowed to hit the ground. No cord could be on the pad. He would not stand on a crack while shooting. Every miss had some external cause like bad pull, bad target or weird background distractions. Still he shot well and was more entertaining than annoying.
