Solutions for Beginners

Here’s a solution for the beginning shooter; someone who is shooting between 50 and 65 percent:

– Do the three-bullet drill and the flashlight drill until your arms fall off.

– Drill single targets over and over and a lot of times over and over on the same target.

– Learn the difference in the two sight pictures.

You have no idea how many people who call us with a problem on a certain target. We ask them point blank what’s the difference in their right-to-left and left-to-right sight picture.

Their first comment is, “I’m looking at the bird.”

“Well, what is the difference in the sight picture?
“I guess I don’t know.”

And here’s the killer. Once they finally admit that, we ask them, “How do you expect your brain to do something if you don’t know what it’s going to look like when it does it?”

Then there goes the open door to “Okay, if it’s coming from the left and you’re a right-handed shooter, it’s to the left of the barrel. If it’s coming from the right, it’s across the barrel.

“I’ve never seen that.”
“Go get your gun.”

 

This is an excerpt from the May 2021 Coaching Hour podcast. You can listen to it and read a written transcript, along with more than 20 years of archived episodes with your Knowledge Vault membership.