Routine, Anticipation, and Balance
We find ourselves observing people doing things they’ve practiced enough that they can be done without thinking. Then it becomes more and more evident that, through repetition, the brain has learned to push its awareness and anticipation farther ahead of what it’s doing at the...
The Importance of Balance
While balance alone allows for us to move through our complex lives every day, maintaining balance is taken for granted by humans until you reach your 70s. Then you’re made aware of just how important and precious the gyro of balance really is. If you don’t...
Maintaining Your Balance
You don’t give it any thought as you travel through your everyday life but staying in balance is a full-time job that has been turned over to the automaticity part of the brain. This is due to the massive use this circuit gets as you...
Why Are Most Guns Stocked Too High for Americans?
Here is another phrase we have heard in conversations: “To shoot that gun well, you’re going to have to apply more cheek pressure and have to roll your head forward to pull your eye down closer to the rib.” This will not work, but it’s a...
Cheek Pressure in the Showroom vs. Cheek Pressure While Shooting
One of the first things we learned is that when shooters mount a shotgun in the showroom, they always put more cheek pressure on the comb than they do when they’re actually shooting the gun. When we mention this to shooters, there is always one or...
Gun Fit and Mounting Consistently
Ask any well-read shooter and they will tell you that gun fit in wing/clay shooting is really important. But few know what gun fit really is. Because they haven’t put in the time to consistently mount the gun, their gun cannot be fitted to them. There are...
Simple and Complex Repetitions
Skill is built through simple repetition in the beginning. As you become more skillful, the repetition becomes less simple and then more complex, as well as predicted prior to performing it. Through this process, the brain begins to “chunk” the circuits together so they become one...
Should I Change Chokes?
Choke is a mystery many will never understand. And as a result, it will confound more people than it will help. My research has proven that you can adjust the diameter of the shot cloud inside of 25 yards greater than you can beyond. If a...
Recoil is the Enemy
At the end of the day, recoil is the enemy. Anything you can do to mitigate recoil will be an advantage. We all have Isis recoil systems on our Krieghoffs and absolutely love them. One-ounce loads at 1200 fps is plenty. Try to use the ammo you...
More on Chokes: Skeet vs. Modified
Improved cylinder, light modified, modified and improved modified have the same 25” reliable killing circle at 25 yards. A .020 modified choke has the same diameter reliable pattern from 25-45 yards! If it’s close, shoot skeet. If it’s not close, shoot modified....