Commitment to Deliberate Repetition
The magic shooters are looking for is in the work they are not willing to do! There is a difference between comment and commitment, and nothing could illustrate it better than the example we just shared above. When your brain understands through repetition what it really looks...
Mastering a Trajectory
New shooters don’t have the shot inventory to properly visualize how and where they want the shot to come together, or they have been chasing all the targets down and trying to fix the shot at the end. Either way, if the shooter is successful, it...
Fear from a Lack of Plan
You can see people walk up to a stand, and they are scared to death to get ready to shoot that target. They don't have a plan of what they're going to do with the targets. And you can just see them when they're gripping...
How Much Detail in Your Routine?
How detailed should your routine be once you’re in the station? There are several levels of detail that we can discuss, depending on whether you're in a tournament or whether you're in a practice session, or whether you're just watching clay target kill shot reviews and...
Your Memory is a Choice
Remembering the past is intimately linked with imagining the future. You had a bad day at the shooting range and your buddy calls and says, “Let's go shoot at that range.” You’ll probably say no, because you think back to the day that you didn't...
Change Your Approach
Positive or negative, or even verbal encouragement on the course while you're shooting… none of it is good or will improve your performance. This is why the frustration occurs. What you're doing or how you're doing it, albeit well-intended, will not work, which means you...
Cue, Response, Reward
A habit is nothing more than cue, response, and reward. And you have to do that “cue, response, reward” enough times, so that it becomes a habit. When I look at the target, I always use a skeet choke on anything inside of 25 yards. I...
Blind Spots When Shooting Pairs
If the targets are hard to see due to lighting or background conditions, find a spot that's either on the target line or close to it. And after killing the first bird, get your eyes there and keep them still, so that they will go...
Confident – But Not Overconfident
"If we can accept that having some level of expectation is a normal and natural byproduct of training and competition, how do we best manage and deal with it?" Well, you always go into a practice or tournament with some kind of expectation. But you can't...
Learning to Shoot in the Wind and Rain
If you want to become a good competitive shooter, just like practicing your gun mount, you got to put a number on your back and get in the game. The first year in master class, shoot every event at every tournament you can afford timewise and...