Learn to shoot, and shoot well. I'd be on the trap range, and shooting trap with the gun down at my side like I carry it, and mounting and shooting. Don't know where your cabin is, or what kinda terrain you would be hunting in, but I will be hunting grouse on Fri., and where birds are found is along a creek, and there is willow thickets that border the creek. I have to have a good dog that will go in and flush them, then hope I can get a quick sight of one flushing, and get a quick shot off. Then it takes a good dog to retrieve it. Most would be lost without a good retrieving dog.

As I see the good shooting, much of the practice is in the mount. If you are a shooter that does it wrong...they hear the thunder of wings, and mount the gun right away, and THEN swing to the target?..forget it!..Stay at home. You have to swing with your body as the gun comes up, and when the gun mounts the barrel is at, or very near the bird, so it then is a slight movement ahead, and bang. Easier said then done when you get startled by the beat of wings hunting in a surroundings of silence, all but for a few tweety birds maybe.