Chris Batha is a master gun-fitter and experienced competition shotgunner. This book is intended as an introduction to all the major shooting sports -- trap, skeet, and sporting clays -- and covers everything from selecting a gun to pulling the trigger. I found it a useful book for several reasons: it's logical and linear, ie. you get from A to B easily; it has great easy to read illustrations; it's evenly paced and doesn't get bogged down in any particular part of shooting clays. (I bought this book because I had read a couple of articles in magazines he writes for which I had liked -- which were about shotgun loads, chokes, and patterning -- and which were frankly almost too technical for me to pay attention to.) This book doesn't fall into this trap (no pun intended); the counter-argument is, though, that as a great introduction to the shotgunning sports, it also doesn't go deep enough into the areas that I personally would have liked more of. For example, how might I correct for chasing clays and end up missing behind? or, why isn't more choke at greater distance necessarily better? In short, an easy-to-read, well-diagramed introduction to trap, skeet, and sporting clays and 5-stars worth for the complete novice but 4-stars for the intermediate shooter.