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...
Commitment to Deliberate Repetition
The magic shooters are looking for is in the work they are not willing to do! There is a difference between comment and commitment, and nothing could illustrate it better than the example we just shared above. When your brain understands through repetition what it really looks...
Building an Inventory of Sight Pictures
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to a shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct. When you begin to train this way - by committing...
Surprise and Sacrifice
For most shooters, there is no rhyme or rhythm in their results when shooting a shotgun at a moving target - painted or feathered. If you shoot a shotgun enough, when you’re surprised by a target at the range or bird in the field, you...
Mastering a Trajectory
New shooters don’t have the shot inventory to properly visualize how and where they want the shot to come together, or they have been chasing all the targets down and trying to fix the shot at the end. Either way, if the shooter is successful, it...
Giving 100 Percent, 100 Percent of the Time
Shooters often do not practice with intensity, which can confuse them. They go through the motions and fun, and then when they go to a tournament they try, and their brain doesn't recognize them. They're not relaxed or happy-go-lucky - they're not having fun. They're...
Ego and Evaluation
Shooters can get so obsessed with breaking the target instead of the process. You can't do anything unless you have a plan. This game is all about ego. And ego is all about breaking the bird. So, that evaluation part when you're trying to learn makes...
Fear from a Lack of Plan
You can see people walk up to a stand, and they are scared to death to get ready to shoot that target. They don't have a plan of what they're going to do with the targets. And you can just see them when they're gripping...
What Should Your Post-Shot Routine Look Like?
After you break the first pair, the typical emotional reaction is relief. Wrong. When you break the first pair, and you break that second bird of the first pair, as you open the gun, the first thing you ought to do is replay visually what you...
The Contents of Your Pre-Shot Routine
Less is important. The mistake that most people make in the beginning is they put way too many things in their pre-shot routine, which means they haven't done enough of what they do in their routine to make it a habit. It's eight things instead...