Sometimes the real thing is harder than clays and sometimes it isn’t.
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Not wanting to buy into an argument, but I will agree with this. I have had any number of shots on game birds and ducks and rabbits and such that were easy peasy, whether because they were slow off the mark, or flying in unawares or whatever.
One thing that does strike me forcefully though is that in Sporting you know what you are going to get - two incomers, or a crosser followed by an incomer on report, or whatever. You get to see the path they'll follow, and can get set up, put your feet in position and look in the right direction, and then call it. In the field you usually don't get that, except perhaps if you are in a hide waiting for ducks, and see them coming in from a good way out.
Even with that though, I think Sporting is good fun, and worthwhile practice if you can't get a lot of shooting, or to get your eye in before the season opens..
