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...
Physiological Diplopia and Neurological Suspension
When a new shooter says something about the confusion, someone - albeit well-intended - throws their hands up in the air and proclaims that you’re left-eye dominant. You immediately feel like damaged goods, and some well-meaning person puts tape on your non-shooting eye and the...
Blocked vs. Random Practice
In our research, we have begun to understand that there are different kinds of practice. While there are many different phases of practice, we want to deal with two of them here- “blocked’ and “random.” When a shooter goes out and shoots the same target over...
From Shooting to Building Your Own Game
When we see the obvious mistake, we know where the mistake began, and we attack the root cause which is rarely where the shooter missed the target! Remember that your skill is what you have trained the brain to fill in when it finds itself...
The Three-Bullet Drill and the Sight Picture
When shooters begin to learn to see the target behind where the barrel is pointed, they stop looking at the barrel. The barrel has a place in the picture, but it is always in the periphery. We have been using a gun mount practice to show...