Mastering at Least Two Trajectories
There are six basic target trajectories: left-to-right and right-to-left crossing and quartering, and targets going up and falling. And until you master at least two, you will not experience much consistency or confidence in your practice or tournaments. So, what do we mean when we say...
Getting Out of the Evaluation Quagmire
There have been hundreds of times in the last 35 years when I've had a really good shooter who's trying to learn a new move. He'll be struggling and hit it three or four times. And here's the problem: he thinks he has it. He’s gone to...
The Post-Shot Habit
The ability to visualize in detail and execute the preloaded visual process in practice to see if it was correct is where most shooters fail to really get better and develop the mental side of their games. How well you're able to visualize how and where...
Training the New Sequence
Nobody comes out of the womb predisposed to be able to shoot a shotgun at moving targets without experiencing confusion. We’re talking about the confusion of looking at a target and getting the gun muzzle in front of it while matching speed and taking the...
The Challenge of Positive Reaction
For most, training your mind to be stronger than your feelings is such a far reach that they can’t even imagine themselves always reacting in a positive way in a difficult negative situation, because it is easier to just give in and enjoy the negativity....
Consistency, Consistency, Consistency
How well you understand that the gun must be to the right or left of the target has little to do with your ability to consistently do it. The number of times you have done it has everything to do with how consistently and successful...
Consistent Work on Your Fundamentals
We ran across an interesting thought not long ago. If you do something to improve your shooting game for 15 minutes a day every day for a year, you will be better than 95 percent of the people out there. This brings us back to the...
Is It a Mental Problem?
So, you think you have a mental problem or your mental game needs to be improved? You might think this is the only way you can explain the missing targets you know how to break in clutch situations. While you might have a mental problem, let’s...
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...