Your Gun Fit Evolves with Repetition
Relentless repetition builds skill. Building skill with a shotgun is a long-range goal and takes a lot of patience, time, and effort - not to mention money! Remember, the gun is the cheapest part. The gun will evolve with experience and repetitions. Few people understand that in...
Long-Term vs. Working Memory
The file for the next shot is created in our long-term memory and then handed off to the working memory to execute the shot. Our long-term memory is infinite, but our working memory is limited in both capacity and duration. It’s important that your memory is...
How the Brain Retrieves “Files” While Shooting
Most shooters don’t realize that each time they prepare to take a shot at a moving target for the first time, the long-term memory takes bits and pieces from different files it remembers from its past. Then it assembles a unique file to break the...
More Consistency with Less Practice
The OSP system of shooting allows for better, more consistent performances with less and less practice once you’ve mastered the fundamentals of setup and movement and have a defined, comfortable amount of muzzle awareness. This is best done through deliberate practice with a detailed movie of...
Same Speed at the End
“Same speed at the end” allows you to see what it looked like as the shot was triggered so the shot can be replicated or corrected. When shooting the OSP system, do not get involved with the lead. That will increase muzzle awareness, which will alter...
The Problem with the Pull Away Method of Shooting
I’m amazed at the number of shooters who are still trying to pull away from targets and are erratic at best in their scores. Pull away shooters miss a lot of targets in the last half of a stand and have a difficult time self-correcting. The...
Your Gun Fit Leads to Better Sight Pictures
One conclusion I have come to about gun fit is that when it really does fit with light cheek pressure and shoots 50/50, all your sight pictures make sense. This makes them more consistent, as well as easier to visualize and predict. Most shooters with off...
Do You Need a High-Rib Shotgun?
A local shooter here in Houston who is moving from skeet into sporting clays has learned a valuable lesson about stock fit. He’s in the pattern stock phase and is shooting an “Ashed” comb on his Perazzi. He’s shooting better skeet than he ever has and...
Light Cheek Pressure: Less is More
If you feel like you have to mount your gun perfectly to hit anything, your gun does not fit. Did you know the harder you have to put your cheek down on the comb to make your gun shoot where you want it, the more you...
Putting in the Time to Build Your Sight Pictures
Building sight pictures is why you practice. Not enough shooters put in the time to practice deliberately to build their inventory in their long-term memory. Most shooters just go shoot the course and play at practice with no preload, no routine, and nothing structured. If you...