Excellence as a Way of Life
There's a direct correlation between the way you practice and the way you perform. Most shooters' evaluation of their ability is a little or (in some instances) a lot higher than reality, and their commitment to improve their ability is in the work they're continuing...
Turning Rituals into Habits
Here’s another simple thing that shooters don’t do, and it’s a real game changer from the consistency standpoint. After breaking a target, they don’t stop to replay what they just saw happen so they can use that movie to preload the next shot. As we...
Peak Performance, Repetition and Failure
Peak performance, regardless of level, is still peak performance. And in the beginning, performance in front of others with an unknown outcome brings about all sorts of fears of the unknown. This situation feeds your brain with phrases and feelings that make little sense away...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...