What Good Shooters See and Why
Talk to a good shooter and they might say they see “the front” or “the rings.” Or they see “the target slow down” or “the target get really big or clear.” But that is a result of the thousands of successful shots they have taken...
Accepting the Muzzle in the Periphery
The overwhelming majority of what we perceive when shooting a moving target occurs in the periphery. And things we perceive in the periphery are really behind real time. Remember, it takes the periphery almost 1/3 of a second to process and understand what’s going on. By...
The Problem with Well-Meaning Shooting Advice
When you’re shooting with someone better than you, quite often when you have a trouble with a certain target, they might want to help you by telling you what they perceive when shooting the same target. And what they tell you is real to them...
The Anticipation Circuit
When we ask shooters to describe what they see that tells them to send the shot, they usually say “I see the front of the target” or “I see the target get really clear.” But they don’t describe any sequence of events leading up to...
“Positive Sound-alikes” and Consistency
In our travels doing clinics, and in our Skype or Zoom consultations with new shooters, we often hear these phrases: “I don’t see the barrel. I just focus hard on the target.” “When I see the front of the target, that’s when I send the shot.” “When I...
Matching Muzzle Speed and the Road to Consistency
We have shooters from Canada, Europe, Australia, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, and Chile who email us to say how much less confusion they’re experiencing in their wing and clay shooting and how much more consistent they have become in their shooting. There is one more common...
Seeing the Target BEHIND The Barrel
Here’s another really big paradigm shift in shooters as they become more experienced on clays and birds: they begin to see the target behind where the barrel is pointed. Now, we know this sounds like double-talk. But we have found that when the shooter, through repetition,...
The Three-Bullet Drill: How to Do It
The Three-Bullet Drill is designed to show your brain what it really looks like to have the gun ahead of a target coming from the right or the left. And the two pictures are really different. Place three shotgun shells on a bookcase about 8-12 inches...
The Three-Bullet Drill: Creating Your Reality
One of the quickest pathways to proficiency is a gun mount drill we have dubbed “The Three-Bullet Drill.” Tens of thousands of wing and clay shooters all over the world have used this simple drill to explain to their brains how they want the visual...
Practice Improves Your Sight Pictures
We don’t even check for dominance anymore in our clinics because the eyes don’t see - the brain sees. What the brain perceives in shooting a moving target is a product of how we’ve trained the brain to see it. As we said previously, what the...