Keep Your Nose on the Target!

Imagine that you’re at a tennis match, seated in line with the net and higher up in the grandstand. Would you put your nose on the net and follow the ball with your eyes? Or would you keep your eyes on the ball by pointing your nose at it?

In our travels, we see shooters watching view targets intently, following them with their hand/finger and their nose all the way to the ground - which we would recommend.

But when they get in the cage to shoot the targets, they mount their gun and bury their cheek in the stock and cut their eyes to pick up the target!

When you are intently focused on a moving object, you are following it with your nose... because to see something with your sharp vision it must be in the center of your visual field. You pick up the movement of the target in your periphery and once you focus on the target both of your eyes have converged on the target. From that point, you will follow it with your nose just like the tennis ball at the tennis tournament.

The next time you are at the range, look at a view target from the trap to the ground and see how you’re tracking it with your nose. Now on the same target point your nose at the halfway point in the path of the target and cut your eyes to the trap and call for the target.

Aside from being uncomfortable, you will see how the target is not clear until it gets close to where your nose is pointed, and it will appear much faster as it approaches that point.