50/50 Flat Shooting Gun
A range owner in North Carolina shot my gun and instantly wanted me to cut his Guerini so it would fit and shoot like mine. So, he sent it to me and I cut it to fit me and sent it back. He has had the...
The Sight Picture Makes So Much Sense
The biggest common reaction to shooting a flat-shooting gun is the shooter's pictures are reciprocal on left-to-right and right-to-left targets and the sight pictures make so much sense! I shot with a shooter yesterday who had a Beretta 680 12ga with Briley screw chokes. The gun...
Rib Height and Gun Fit
Rib height has little to do with how well you will shoot one gun over another. In the end, it is the relationship between the rib height and the shape and height of the comb and where your cheek softly and comfortably touches the comb. Most shooters...
Make Progress or Make Excuses!
One of the reasons you can’t learn from any book or coach is that you must see how these emotions and circumstances manifest themselves in you. It is not the end of recognizing the problem that you need to know to avoid the problem. It is...
Gun Fits Don’t Correct Sight Picture
You hear a lot about gun fit and follow-through. While they are important, here is where we have come to after thousands of shooters and 55,000 hours each over 26 years as professional coaches: If the sight picture is correct and the muzzle speed is the same...
Your Detailed Mental Representations
The body eventually turns back into itself. Learning is about fulfilling your innate potential. It requires challenging homeostasis and taking control of your destiny. What does the shot look like at every moment? Mental Representations (MRs) allow for the access of huge bits of data in an...
Give the Task Your Full Attention
You must give the task your full attention. You must push yourself past your comfort zone. Finding the barrier is critical for improving. You must isolate what keeps you from getting better. Coming at a barrier from a different direction is the key to getting past it....
The Brain Sees Skill as a Pattern
The brain sees skill as a pattern: a series of skills that have been repeated enough times so that they happen without thought. At this point, the skill moves to long-term memory to free up more short-term memory. When you perform this skill enough times in long-term...
The More Times You Create the Pattern the Same Way
We see shooters who are practicing just trying to break the target. When the broken target is a result of a detailed preload and happens just like the preload, you can believe it and begin to trust it. You cannot trust what you cannot see in your...
Defining Mental Representations
Creating long-term memory is defining mental representations: a visual image we see when a phrase is introduced to our brain. Long-term memory enables the brain to process enormous amounts of data in a fraction of a second. The pattern recognition via repetitions in deep practice makes...