Neither Shock nor Relief
Rather than being shocked or relieved when the target breaks, the best shooters are shocked when it doesn’t break because they are so committed to a certain sight picture before they even close their gun to call “pull”!...
Another Satisfied Customer
“I did shoot my new Mossberg 930 sporting. It was hard for me to believe. I have a Benelli Super Sport custom shop, and a Beretta A 400 multi-target ACS. I took your 930 out, and on my first shooting at wobble trap, hit 23...
The Three-Bullet Drill and Consistency
A giant step in the right direction to become more consistent is to do the three-bullet drill to train your brain to accept the muzzles in the periphery and get used to what the sight pictures really look like. This will make it so much easier...
Visualization Separates the Top Shooters from the Rest
There are two things we see that separate the top shooters in both skeet and sporting. First, the ability to visualize exactly what the shot is going to look like before they even load the gun. And second, how comfortable they are in the competitive...
Concentration: The Art of Thinking About Nothing
Your focus improves as your habits improve. The amount you have used that specific habit in competition in turn determines how comfortable you are when you are competing. I was in a shoot-off with Olympic skeet shooter Matt Dryke at the first Beretta championships held in...
Developing Your Skills into Habits
The beginning shooter must train themselves to develop good habits that they can depend on when they are performing. Nothing is a skill until it becomes a habit. Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky said, “We are all creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better...
Knowledge Vault: Get More out of Your Practice
Before you go practice, always look in the Knowledge Vault and review companion videos in the sporting clays section of presentations you are about to practice. Then look at clay kill shot reviews of targets you are going to practice. You will automatically get more out...
The Mental Libraries of Top Shooters
Through purposeful practice, the top shooters have assembled a mental library of what it really looks like when they break a target, which allows them to send a detailed visual to their brains. When they call “pull,” they already know what it will look like. Their...
The Brain Needs a Movie
Why are so many shooters so confused about why they can’t get the gun where they already know it is supposed to be? Well, our experience shows that top shooters can visualize exactly what they are about to do to break the targets in vivid detail....
Don’t Short-Change Yourself!
Here’s what we learned from training and evaluating an eight-week skeet league in late summer and early fall of 2016… If you are not doing practice drills #102 and #102 from quick tips, watching the Kill Shot Reviews on skeet, trap, or sporting clays, or watching...