Iowa Training Session
Well, we are leaving the Iowa training session. And what a great session it was. We had 12 shooters and 12 observers. The first afternoon was in the classroom. We went over the basic toolbox animations, as we always do. We got the usual strange looks about seeing the bird...
Lehigh Valley
Lessons from Lehigh Valley Over the four days in Lehigh Valley, I never stopped being amazed at how many shooters, despite how many times we write about not looking down the barrel, are still doing it. Even though it does not make any logical sense when we propose...
Fixing the Slash at the End of the Shot
I had a shooter with a new Krieghoff that was fit by the factory. It was 1 and 5/8″ too short with cast on for a right-handed shooter. He had a violent slash at the end of his shots and did not realize it. I had to shoot a video of...
Time is Relative
Although time moves slowly, when you're in flow it moves fast at the same time. So time is relative. Bored and slow involved, and it's over almost just after it began. When you are in flow, however, everything seems slow from the perspective of having plenty of time to get...
Baffin Bay
As soon as we got off the plane, we had to drive to Baffin Bay. We had a stop off at our bay house to get all our gear and then drive down past Corpus Christi to the way to fish with a student and his...
Move and Mount in Sporting Clays
Just how important is the move and mount in sporting clays? Well, in the beginning, it is everything. But unfortunately, that's where many shooters get stuck in a rut and never get out. They are so hung up on lead and swing technique and what the...
Argentina 2014
We arrived in Cordoba, Argentina on Tuesday, August 5th, having left Houston on Monday. We got through customs, and then on to the lodge. That trip was another two hours, but at the lodge, Eduardo met us with champagne and goodies to snack on. So it was 5...
Struggle is Necessary for Improvement
Thanks to Jeff Wolfe for sending this to me after we talked about writers and other instructors blatantly stealing our words and phrases: “It’s like any other knowledge you don’t work to obtain. Just because you have it, that doesn’t mean you really understand it, or...
Teaching in South Dakota
We finally got to Hunters Pointe Sporting Clays in Humboldt, South Dakota, 16 miles west of Sioux Falls. Tony Bour, the owner, had been trying to get us to come up there for two years but it just never worked out. So we squeezed it in...
Teaching Swing-Through Pheasant Hunters in South Dakota
We're returning from South Dakota from teaching at Hunters Pointe near Sioux Falls, and renewing our friendship with Tony Bour and his family. What a relief to have cooler weather: highs of 85 instead of a heat index of 107 in Houston. And we're planning to return...