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 object and mount the gun to the left or the right of the object. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your brain figures out how you want it to interpret the sequences from each retina!

When you practice this way, your brain will eventually learn that for you to be focused on the target and have the gun ahead of the target, it must begin to see the target behind where the barrel is pointed – not down the barrel.

When the paradigm shift occurs in your brain, then the barrel and the target both have a place in the shot. But now the barrel is already ahead of the target and matching the speed can be done more easily.

The most frequently made mistake when practicing your gun mount masquerades as something very positive, but you don’t know what it is.

When mounting the gun to the right or left of an object in the room, even if you have practiced your gun mount thousands of times, you will still tend to look down the barrel just to check to see if it is mounted correctly. We find that this trains the brain to look at the barrel when the barrel comes into the picture, the gun stops, and you miss behind.

Always see it behind the barrel!