Regardless of the Result
Leading up to a big event, we're all excited to go to the Open or Nationals. But if I expect to do well, I need to have to time to practice, and for maybe months or weeks and days leading up to the event, I...
Your Memory is a Choice
Remembering the past is intimately linked with imagining the future. You had a bad day at the shooting range and your buddy calls and says, “Let's go shoot at that range.” You’ll probably say no, because you think back to the day that you didn't...
Complex Decisions in Shooting
In a study on baseball that Dan Levy and Dave Kirscher did, they looked at simple reactions and complex reactions. They compared trained athletes to everyday people. When the decision was a simple decision, like “red light, green light, stop or go,” there was no difference...
Don’t Sweat the Long Stuff
You need to be absolutely lethal within 25 yards. If you're going to shoot tournaments, it's not the long stuff that kills you. It's the stuff that's within the 20-to-25-yard mark. If you want to gain ground on a scorecard, that's where it has to...
Change Your Approach
Positive or negative, or even verbal encouragement on the course while you're shooting… none of it is good or will improve your performance. This is why the frustration occurs. What you're doing or how you're doing it, albeit well-intended, will not work, which means you...
The Old Way vs. New Way
In the beginning, we know when a shooter is shooting with a gun doesn't fit. We know it shoots high. I’ll typically give the shooter my gun and then he hits five targets in a row at 50 yards that he couldn't touch with his...
Unforced Errors in C-Class
“I've been shooting for two years and should be shooting better than C class. I have too many unforced errors. Thoughts on my dilemma?” This shooter has been shooting for two years. He practices three times a week, but he's got too many unforced errors, and...
Cue, Response, Reward
A habit is nothing more than cue, response, and reward. And you have to do that “cue, response, reward” enough times, so that it becomes a habit. When I look at the target, I always use a skeet choke on anything inside of 25 yards. I...
Muzzle Awareness is a Journey
No one ends up with the same visual confusion they begin with. And don't make too much over eye dominance. Learning the sight picture and the three-bullet drill will make most dominance issues fade away. Practice the sight pictures over and over and always predict...
Gun Fit in New Shooters
In working with a lot of the high school athletes and the high school coaches, we’ve learned that gun fit is a huge thing for them. There are no guns out there that are going to fit somebody that's 5'6 and weighs 115 pounds. That's...