Seeing Over the Lever
If you're shooting a cross-eyed target with a lot of lead, there's a technique that can help you. This is especially useful for long, high tower shots, big, crossing belly chandelles, and shots that are 40, 50, or 60 yards away. As you mount the gun,...
Pushing Past Discomfort to Learn
This is a segment inspired by Fred Shoemaker’s book “Extraordinary Golf” that Gil and Vicki used at a coach’s clinic in Nebraska about coaching kids. One of the things you have to get kids to overcome is fear. They’re all afraid to screw up because they’re...
Looking at Your Top and Bottom Scores
You’re not always going to bring your “A” game to the show. As hard as you try, you’re not always going to do that. I went to the Beretta World Championships in 1987 and was fortunate enough to spend probably 45 minutes under a tent...
What Prevents You from Self-Correcting?
These are things that keep people from being able to self-correct: - Muzzle awareness. You need to begin to recognize when you look at the barrel in the setup, which leads to awareness in the shot. - Too much cheek pressure and too much grip pressure. Both of those...
The Timing Drill
The timing drill is done on a skeet field. You go out to station eight and take three or four steps back towards station four and face the center stake. The gun hold point is over toward the high house, and the focal point is into...
The Limits of Working Memory
Working memory is limited in duration and capacity. It can hold on to things for about 10 to 20 seconds if you don't do something with them. And there can be no more than four things in the working space at any one time. One of...
Weekend Shooters vs. Winners
Seeing a marked improvement in your ability to shoot targets is not a quick evolution. This is why we keep saying to shoot singles with routines. There are no shortcuts, but everyone is looking for one. The resistance to change, something to make us better is...
How Do You Start Your Shooting Year?
When you begin your new year or come back from your break, it’s important that you write down what kind of targets you practiced; how many, the frequency of practice, and the duration of practice. Whatever you did last year, if it worked out, you ought...
Shooting in the Rain – Get in the Game!
If you want to become a good competitive shooter, just like practicing your gun mount, you got to put a number on your back and get in the game. In your first year in master class, shoot every event at every tournament you can afford timewise...