Building an Inventory of Sight Pictures
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to a shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct. When you begin to train this way - by committing...
Giving 100 Percent, 100 Percent of the Time
Shooters often do not practice with intensity, which can confuse them. They go through the motions and fun, and then when they go to a tournament they try, and their brain doesn't recognize them. They're not relaxed or happy-go-lucky - they're not having fun. They're...
What Should Your Post-Shot Routine Look Like?
After you break the first pair, the typical emotional reaction is relief. Wrong. When you break the first pair, and you break that second bird of the first pair, as you open the gun, the first thing you ought to do is replay visually what you...
Small Muscle, Big Muscle
The ideal way for the brain to move the body is small muscle, big muscle. And when I'm moving, as I call or I'm moving before I call, it's so much easier for me to get everything synced up. Because my hands are moving, if the...
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...
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...
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...
Reading Pairs
When you're looking between the birds of the pair, you'll understand just how much time you really have to shoot the pair, which will eliminate the hurry on the first bird or the first pair. And eventually will get you more X’s. Never miss a target...
Tying Up Both Sides of the Brain
I had a lesson with a 70-year-old guy who had been taking lessons from the young guns - trying to pull away, trying to insert, trying to match speeds then pull away, all manner of things at the end of the shot. When he hit it...
Be Specific About Your Shooting Goals
Goals are very personal. How you look at things, how you name them, and the value you draw from them are also very personal things. In some of the emails I've gotten from the guys who are going to be on tonight, they're all saying...