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...
Being Aware of the Periphery When Shooting
When shooting a shotgun at clays or birds, the target is always in our primary visual circle and the gun is always in the periphery. What that looks like differs greatly shooter to shooter and depends on whether they shoot clays or birds. In the beginning, the...
The Difference Between Shooting a Rifle and Shotgun
When shooting a rifle, the shooter is looking down the barrel and lining it up with the target. While holding the barrel on the target, the shooter begins to squeeze the trigger and the gun goes off. But when the gun is going to go...
Focus on the Target: The “Mainest Thing” About Shotgun Shooting
Whether you are a clays or wing shooter, none of us start with the same game we end up with. What we do and what we see is an evolution based on how much we practice our passion with the smooth bore. As my late friend...
Foot and Hand Positions on Targets Below Your Feet
The elevation of the target has a lot to do with foot position and the front hand’s grip position. When shooting overhead targets off high towers, the front hand must come back towards the action of the gun just to be able to get the gun...
Young Shooters Sticking Their Elbows Out
Here’s another anomaly we often see often in younger shooters. With the gun mounted, their elbows are sticking straight out to either side. To this day, we cannot understand why they do this. Your elbows on both arms should be a comfortable 45 degrees to the line...
Shooting Single Targets with Prediction
Shooters who practice more single targets moving the breakpoint and predicting how and where they will break the target and then executing their prediction gain a consistency in their game quicker than those who just shoot the course to try to shoot a good score. In...