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...
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...
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...
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...
Prediction and Execution
A success or a failure without a prediction never makes its way to the long-term memory. It's absolutely wasted. It's the prediction and the execution of the prediction that allows you to commit to do a certain thing on that target. If you hit it, it's...