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You Can’t Practice Confidence
Consistency and confidence cannot be practiced; they are what is left over from practicing, which is why you must bring your practice game to higher and higher levels. There is a myth out there that you can talk yourself into becoming a better shooter. But sorry, that golden ring or silver bullet doesn’t exist. You get better by hard work, not just shooting the course with your buddies. Building an elite shotgun game i... Read more…
Dealing with Compliments Effectively
Eventually, your game will elevate to another level and your fellow shooters will begin to notice your scores are either becoming more consistent and/or higher.You will begin to be complimented on your game. The normal response to a compliment about your score is to be humble and say things like, “Well a blind hog finds an acorn!” or “Aw, I just got lucky today!” Humility is an honorable trait for a person to have, and... Read more…
Opening Your Over-and-Under Automatically
Let’s use opening your over-and-under shotgun as an example. You don’t have to consciously tell your hands where to hold the gun and you don’t have to look at your thumb to make sure it hits the top lever and exerts the correct amount of pressure sideways to enable the gun to open. Both of your hands work in unison with each other to smoothly open the gun without you thinking about it. You catch your empties and toss t... Read more…
No Shortcut to Proficiency in Shotgunning
One big thing we have been emphasizing is that skill resides in a person’s memory. A person cannot visualize something they have never seen, so there is no shortcut to becoming proficient with a shotgun - especially in hunting situations. In addition, our brain has no ability to do what we want it to do unless it first has a picture of exactly what we are asking it to do and in what order. This is what keeps most wing ... Read more…
Light Cheek Pressure
Something that must be considered is the amount of cheek pressure required to shoot the gun consistently. If the salesman says you will have to cheek the gun a little tighter, don’t buy the gun. Years of shooting and coaching has shown us that the greater amount of cheek pressure required to “make the gun shoot,” the greater amount of muzzle awareness the shooter will experience! Easily 90 percent of misses in the fiel... Read more…
