Mike Yardley is a well known writer and shooting instructor in the UK. In this video he gives some good times on mounting and handling a shotgun.
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Reacting to recoil…
Mike Yardley is one the UK’s leading shooting authorities and he shares a lot about shotguns and shooting on his website Positive Shooting. I just read though Dealing with Recoiland I recommend checking it out.

“Are you affected by recoil? Many shooting men and women are. There is no need to suffer. Let’s consider what might be done about it. First, a bit of physics. As you may remember from school days, to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (Newton’s Third Law). Recoil is the motion of a gun in the opposite direction to its projectile. Various factors need to be considered when thinking about the physics of recoil: muzzle velocity, gun weight, projectile weight…”
Be a better shot: try Positive Shooting…
Here’s another quick video from Michael Yardley filled with a few more good shooting tips.
BTW: if you can’t tell, one of my goals for the fall is to be a better shot. That’s why I’m digging up these videos.