Hard Skills – Moving and Mounting
Hard skills are the skills that you have to have a hundred percent correct all the time. It would be a fisherman’s ability to drop a jig not only in the cup but have the jig go on a flight pattern so that it just...
Peripheral Acceptance
We all have a problem letting that gun go, and it’s periphery acceptance. There’s no doubt about that. When you exceed your peripheral acceptance, your focus ratio goes straight down the hole. But it seems as though looking behind the gun and making and holding onto...
The Post-Shot Routine and Happiness
When you visualize what the shot will look like (not necessarily the lead but what the end picture is going to look like) you know you’re going to be looking at that bird away from that gun. Being able to visualize exactly what that shot is...
From Thinking (Behind) to Doing (Ahead)
When you’re in the subconscious mode, the anticipation circuit is projecting forward. It is anticipating what’s going to happen and it is coordinating all of your movements to bring about the action you’re about to do or that you’re in the process of doing; but the instant...
Practicing Recall
The thing that is least practiced is recall: looking at a target and letting the working memory go to the long-term memory. Then letting the long-term memory make the file and hand it off to the working memory. The working memory takes that shot where and...
Eyes Still and Hands Relaxed
I want to begin the shot (i.e., closing the gun and addressing the bird) in the same physiological position every single time. It doesn't matter if there are no clouds. I may look at the clouds just to the right of the first breakpoint. I...
The Importance of Instant Feedback
Getting instant feedback is critical because it tells your brain whether or not it’s doing what you want it to do. Typically, the only feedback that we see the average performers give to themselves is beating themselves up for their brain not doing what they hadn’t...
Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Scorecard
- Are you in sync and stabilizing every shot? - Are you staying in the shots long enough to have a post-visual routine confirming to your brain to do it again, which in turn becomes your pre-shot visual? - Are you controlling your pace after your quiet...
Solutions for Beginners
Here’s a solution for the beginning shooter; someone who is shooting between 50 and 65 percent: - Do the three-bullet drill and the flashlight drill until your arms fall off. - Drill single targets over and over and a lot of times over and over on the same target. - Learn...
Setbacks Follow Success
You’ve got to stay in control of your expectations. Without expectation, it’s very easy to perceive the subtlety of what you do. With expectation, you will always perceive the boundary. Remember that setbacks always follow success. You never get there. You’ll think, “I’ve arrived.” No, you...