An Experienced Coach
The most frequent mistake we see all shooters do is not practicing deliberately. Deliberate practice is designed by you to improve the exact part of your game that keeps you where you are score-wise. In skeet shooting, 25 straight must become a habit. But a good...
Trying to Mount the Gun and Take the Shot
Trying to mount the gun and take the shot as you mount will result in inconsistencies that you cannot explain. You will never be consistently successful on longer shots that require a slower gun speed to match speed with the target speed, especially if you must...
The Gun is Always in the Periphery
I don’t ever look down the barrel when I shoot, nor do any of our students. The gun is always in the periphery and the target is always in our primary vision, so we are always looking at the target behind where the barrel is...
Eye a Little Higher Over the Rib
If I were a shooter that mounted the gun and looked down the barrel chasing the target trying to fix the shot at the end… Or if I shot pull-away, trying to fix the shot at the end… Or if I shot trap… I would want to have...
Consistent Transitions
Slight cheek pressure yields much more consistent transitions between the first and second target on a pair!...
Slight Cheek Pressure
Slight cheek pressure yields several things: A consistent 50/50 pattern at all distances. Easier and more consistent mount. Consistent results at close and distant targets, and Reciprocal sight pictures! ...
Cheek Pressure
The more cheek pressure you must apply to make the gun shoot where you look, the more perfect the gun mount must be. Also, the gun will be harder to mount consistently, and the more you will tend to look down the barrel to make sure...
Mounting Pressure
Shooters rarely mount the gun while shooting it with as much pressure as they do when mounting the gun in the showroom or their garage....
Flat Shooting Gun
60/40 at 16 yards is much higher at 60 yards! 50/50 is 50/50 at all distances! 60/40 is great at skeet, but the average distance a skeet target is shot is 14-and-a-half yards. And a high shooting gun is great for trap, but all targets are...
The Game has Changed
I began my sporting career with a gun that shot 70/30 that I designed. It later became the Browning Special Sporting (crossover) and Lightning Sporting with a flat rib. But targets were rising or were flat and a long target was 30 yards! The game has changed...