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My trap shooting strategies to hit clay targets consistently with tactical shotgun and it works.
Granted that I stand next to the thrower instead of 16 yards behind the trap machine as in normal trap, but it works in normal trap too (I've tried, it's more difficult).

Strategy #2: Shot placement
Trail behind when following the target. Wait until it reaches peak and starts descending, which then moves toward the front sight. Shoot before it reaches front sight (trailing becomes leading shot). Predict its path from different stations.

Strategy #1: A comfortable way to shoot lightweight tactical shotgun that also improves accuracy: Control the recoil instead of fighting it by letting the gun moves rearward to prevent muzzle jump. When shooting, rest your arm to lean forward on the forearm instead of pulling it firmly toward shoulder.

The common believe of felt recoil is it's more gentle when we press the stock firmly against the shoulder to make it pushes rather than slamming. That's true for older gun with no recoil pad, but it's the opposite for synthetic stock with thick recoil pad. Soft recoil pad absorbs the slam and turns it into a push that's more gentle. And letting the gun slides back means less muzzle jump and less slamming on the cheek. If I press the stock hard against my shoulder, I'd get disoriented for few seconds after the shot. But if I don't fight the recoil, my eyes stay focus and no sore shoulder after continuous shooting over 100 rounds, not even a little bit.

The "felt recoil" is more psychological than physical. When I shoot clay targets, the recoil is enjoyable and it's no fun without it. You rush to shoot flying clay pigeon and you see that target burst at the same time you feel the kick on the shoulder, that feels good. The difference in "felt recoil" is a night and day with the same gun, same load when patterning on the bench. The enjoyable recoil when shooting clay is felt too massive when patterning that gun. You're relax, aiming at the center of paper, holding your breath as you pull the trigger slowly, then BOOM it kicks you. It doesn't do more damage, doesn't hurt, but it's felt a lot more than when shooting clay.

The difference in felt recoil of target load vs 00 buckshot vs slug with this gun is not as big as people often claim with other guns. I don't feel any difference in the recoil between target load and 00 buckshot no matter how hard I try to differentiate, but I can feel a bit more recoil with the slug. It's noticeable only when I shoot one after the other. Otherwise, I couldn't notice the difference.
That makes sense from physics standpoint. The muzzle velocity and weight of slug and shots are similar, therefore they have similar muzzle energy (no more than 30% different) at the time they exit the barrel, and therefore they must also have similar counter-reaction to that energy (the recoil). Larger difference is due to gun fit and mount when shooting, which in turn effects how the gun kicks. The more tense we are, the more kick we receive (again, fighting recoil versus controlling it).

Another common believe is, recoil happens when the projectile(s) leave the barrel, not while traveling down the barrel, but I disagree. Counter-reaction of the force happen at the same moment of the force, therefore recoil happens at the moment the shell is discharged.

We cannot see the rearward movement before the projectile(s) exit the barrel unless if it's recorded with ultra high speed video camera. It takes 1.25 ms for the pellets to travel through 18" barrel (assuming muzzle velocity is 1200 feet/second). Normal video camera rate is at most 60 frames/second, or 16.6 ms, which is impossible to capture the barrel movement while projectile(s) is passing through.

There is a demo video of high speed 1 million frames per second Kurzzeit camera that captures a bullet exits the barrel (it's in youtube). There, you can see the barrel moves rearward prior to bullet exit and continues the rearward movement at the same speed after the bullet leaves the barrel. That surprised me. I would have thought the rearward speed that's caused by recoil would be somehow reduced by the forward push in the barrel by the bullet rifling through it, but it seems like the forward push is negligibly small (the gun is much heavier than the bullet).

Some of us have noticed that if we don't press the stock hard against our shoulders when sighting-in our hunting rifles over 100-200 yards, we'd get better group (1-2 MOA difference). The difference is not huge and certainly doesn't make much different in short range or with shot string from shotgun, but still, I would like to eliminate any inaccuracy that's not due to my mistake in placing the shot.

EQUIPMENT USED
Champion Wheelybird auto-feed trap thrower
Trius one step trap thrower
Remington 887 tactical & Carlson's choke tube .700 (Full)
White Flyer Biodegradable clay targets
Federal Field & Target multi-purpose load, # 7 1/2 shot