What Does It Take to Be More Consistent?

Put 100 shotgun shooters in a room and ask all of them to raise their hands if they would like to be more consistent with their shotguns and everyone in the room will raise their hands.

But how many of them will leave their hands up when you ask who is willing to actually spend time watching some videos and practicing sight pictures so you can visualize the shot you’re asking the brain to execute before you close the gun and call ‘pull’? In our experience, only a small percentage of shooters will commit to actually doing something that will improve their shooting.

News flash: if you want to be better than all your friends at hitting targets with a shotgun (painted or feathered) you must do something that you’re are not willing to do. And this commitment begins with understanding what it really looks like with the gun ahead of the bird.

When talking to clients on phone consults, we know more about what their problems are than they do after the first few sentences. All we have to do is ask one question and they become silent. The question: “Explain to me the difference between the left-to-right sight picture and the right-to-left sight picture – are they dramatically different?”

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Our Knowledge Vault has online courses that are guaranteed to improve your shooting on clays as well as birds in the field. But the problem is getting the shooters motivated to actually put in the time required to become more consistent.

Like Brian says, “We can teach it to you, but we can’t learn it for you.”

Studies show that it takes your brain about 25-30 consecutive days of visualizing something new for a new neural pathway to form so you can begin to preprogram your brain to execute the shot the way you want it to come together. But you have to know what it really looks like to visualize the real picture coming together like you want it to!

Shooters worldwide are watching our ShotKam videos of clays and game birds and are actually getting better by just watching birds being hit with a consistent method. It’s called Perceptual Cognitive Learning and it works! Duck hunters are watching ducks being shot with the ShotKam the night before the hunt and the morning of and they tell us they are killing 6 ducks with 6-8 shots instead of 12-18 shots!

We are not asking for 25-30 days of structured concentration. But we are asking you to take, say, 15 minutes a day four times a week to actually visualize what it looks like for the gun to be ahead of the target so you can get more consistent. 

Doing the gun mount drills will explain to your brain how you want it to look when you pull the trigger before you close the gun and call “pull.”  Couple this home practice with one trip to the range each week for six weeks to shoot simple crossing targets. This way, your brain can actually begin to visualize what it looks like to have the barrel ahead of the target so you can actually hit the target consistently.

We can guarantee your results, but you have to put in the time.