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Is It a Mental Problem?
So, you think you have a mental problem or your mental game needs to be improved?You might think this is the only way you can explain the missing targets you know how to break in clutch situations. While you might have a mental problem, let’s look at your overall entire game before we use what we see as the easiest cop-out in our game.When shooters come to us for an evaluation of their shooting game, looking for a way ... Read more…
Gun Mount Practice Tips
We have discovered the most frequent mistake shooters make when practicing their mount at home in the garage or gun room. When they mount the gun, they are looking at something - a light switch or a duck’s head or a lampshade - and when they mount the gun to their face and shoulder, they are looking down the barrel.This is the last place you want to be looking if you want to get the gun ahead of the target. Look at the... Read more…
Commitment to Deliberate Repetition
The magic shooters are looking for is in the work they are not willing to do! There is a difference between comment and commitment, and nothing could illustrate it better than the example we just shared above.When your brain understands through repetition what it really looks like to hit a moving target, the more you do it, the clearer the picture gets and the better you get. If you put 100 shotgun shooters in a room a... Read more…
Building an Inventory of Sight Pictures
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to a shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct.When you begin to train this way - by committing to the shot the way you want it to come together via your prediction - you are building an inventory of sight pictures that are stored in your long-term memory and will be avail... Read more…
Surprise and Sacrifice
For most shooters, there is no rhyme or rhythm in their results when shooting a shotgun at a moving target - painted or feathered. If you shoot a shotgun enough, when you’re surprised by a target at the range or bird in the field, you look at the target, mount the gun, and pull the trigger. Then the target blows up or the bird folds without you thinking about what or how you did what you just did. This just adds to the... Read more…
