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Struggles are Good
A student of ours once came to me and said, “Man, I’m really having a problem on the first two stations.”“Well, that’s a good thing,” I said.“What? That’s a good thing?”I said, “That means once we get that solved, they’d better look out, huh?”“I hadn’t thought about it that way,” he said.“That’s a great thing. Because that means you’ve isolated the one thing that we’ve got to work on, and once we get that fixed, look o... Read more…
Jitters and Your Learning Curve
All of the disappointments that shooters go through are just spots on the learning curve.You know the ones I’m talking about:The first station jitters, the last station jitters, the station running jitters, the long crosser jitters, the window shot jitters, being in the lead jitters, I don’t want to shoot like crap jitters, I hope I will not shoot like crap jitters (not to be confused with the I shot like crap yesterda... Read more…
Looking Behind the Barrel
The very act of putting the gun in front of the target without seeing it makes the shooter want to look at it. When the target comes to the gun, the gun is part of the picture. This is significant because the target is the actuator, not the gun. Focus is enhanced and a fixed focus ratio is more easily achieved.The more you use this, the more obvious it becomes. If you think of inserting in front and thinking how far in... Read more…
What You Need to Ask Yourself Before a Shoot
You need to determine how far you’re comfortable traveling to a shoot the morning of the shoot. Experiment. Look for patterns. Some people might be comfortable traveling for two-and-a-half hours and taking an hour break before you shoot and then shooting that day.We encouraged one student to drive to a shoot for 30 minutes and drive to a shoot for three hours and shoot and see how he did. Then the next one, go the nigh... Read more…
What Fear Was
What Fear WasExpectation comes about because of fear. Fear will bring the eye, the bird, and the gun together.Fear puts the gun in the way, puts the gun in the equation, and the first thing that fear does to you, if you have any amount of fear in your mind about a target you’re about to shoot for whatever reason, your hold point is going to move back to the trap and/or your eyes are going to move when you call “pull,”... Read more…
