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Are coaches effective when they tell athletes to be more like superstars such as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, or Wayne Gretzky? On one hand, the stories of these superstars are not very useful because the one-in-a-billion success of a Michael Jordan is different from the stories...
Learn to Mount the Gun
A Shooter's Transformation Just returned from a quail hunt at the 74 Ranch and discussed with other hunters what they saw and what went through their heads when they were shooting. As you might guess, they were looking down the barrel and you can guess the...
The Kill Shot Review Really Works
I talked to Doss yesterday, who had called to let me know just how lethal he's been on game birds from looking at the kill shot review on ducks. He also shared with me that he had shot the Brister shoot at West Side and had...
Comments Overheard at Tournaments
Thanks to Jeff Wolfe for these two comments he has overheard at tournaments. "You've got the correct lead, now try putting it on the other side of the target." "If that target was towing a 20-foot trailer, you'd have centered the trailer." Check out my answer to Kevin...
Sporting Clays Journey
It's About How You Handle Failure The road to success is not a freeway. It's always under construction, full of setbacks and holes to fall into. And the paradox is you never really get there, especially in this silly game we play called sporting clays. This brings...
Back from Quail Hunting
Headed back to Fulshear after the morning hunt with Rachel and Gary. Man, were the birds on these past few hunts strong flyers. They were perhaps the strongest flyers I have ever seen on pen-raised birds. Of course, you're gonna get your share of “motte...
ShotKam: What a Difference!
Vicki and I had invited Gary and Rachel down to the 74 Ranch to celebrate their fifth anniversary. With all experienced hunters in the group, we decided that we would hunt no more than three per hunt. So each one of us would sit one hunt...
Nuisance Decisions!
Well, I got trapped in the nuisance decision vortex today. I'm doing a lot of planning and just totally forgot that we were supposed to hunt quail with Dr. Charlie Rockwood and Dr. Larry Trick at the 74 Ranch. These two guys helped me with my rotator...
74 Ranch Quail Hunt
Hunting Quail at the 74 Ranch I got a call from Milo at the 74 Ranch, who wanted to know if I was going to make it for lunch. I told him we would be there tomorrow for lunch, no problem. He said I was supposed to be...
More from Nationals
Learning from Long Targets Well, it's been an interesting few days for me. I've been missing a lot of targets in front and finding it hard to let the target close. Perplexed, I've begun to remember the advice I have given over and over to shooters about shooting...