Why You Miss In Front
The short version: Missing in front means your shot got ahead of the bird. It feels random — sometimes dead-on, sometimes a foot out front — but it isn't. An in-front miss almost always traces to one of a small number of specific, fixable causes. The hard part isn't the list. It's knowing which one is yours.
Here's what most advice gets wrong: it tells you to “use less lead.” But lead is rarely the real problem — it's a symptom. The gun got ahead of the bird because of something upstream, and that upstream cause is what you actually have to fix.
Applying the wrong fix is how shooters spend years stuck on the same miss.
See the full diagnosis
The complete breakdown — every cause, why it happens, and the exact fix from Bill Erdőss's system — is part of ClaysBuddy Gold.
Unlock with GoldComing soon: connect it to your shot heatmap in the app to pinpoint the cause that's actually yours.
About the method. These guides come from the coaching system of Bill Erdőss, an Olympic clay shooting coach, built around one idea: diagnose the cause of a miss, not the symptom. The same logic powers ClaysBuddy's shot heatmap, which finds that cause in your own rounds and tracks whether your fix is working.