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...
Gun Fit and Cheek Pressure
We have learned a lot about gun fit and cheek pressure over the past 25 years as professional coaches, the previous 17 years as competitive skeet shooters, and then as sporting clays competitors since 1983. We also have heard the theories about the iris sitting on...
Deliberate Practice
The Coaching Hour is tonight and we will be beginning a discussion on “deliberate practice” and its effect on higher levels of performance. Last month we began this discussion and instead of an hour, it went an hour and a half. We expect tonight to be...
NSSF Shares OSP Tips on Social Media
We are just back from the National Shooting Sports Foundation where Brian, Vicki, and I did some tips that NSSF will be putting up on all mediums - Facebook, Twitter, etc. Some of them were the longer tips like I have done in the past, but...
Coaching Hour in Knowledge Vault
Perhaps the most overlooked section of the Knowledge Vault is Coaching Hours! We have been doing a one-hour conference call every month since November 2001 and they are all in the section. First, listen to or read March 2015 to understand what skill is and how...
Patterning Your Shotgun and Having a Quiet Eye
On our most recent Coaching Hour, we talked about patterning your shotgun first to make sure that the barrels are regulated correctly and then for the point of impact. We also talked about Hurricane Harvey and how we are doing, as well as having a...
Vision Evolves as You Train
Be sure to check out the August 2017 Coaching Hour podcast where we talk about how your vision evolves as you train and your game progresses. We are just back from Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays in Pennsylvania and we had a great clinic with a lot...