Looking at the Barrel and Making a Plan
We're just getting home from teaching at a new club for us - Minute Man Sportsman’s Club just north of Boston. What a perfect time of year to go to a cooler climate. The leaves had not started turning yet, but give it a week or...
Where Did July Go?
Wow, where did July go? We got to spend some time at the bay house over the 4th of July, but the winds were so high that we didn’t even get the boat out of the stall. We did have the right West winds for some...
Punching in to Master Class
On our last Coaching Hour podcast, we had some students who have punched into Master Class and they wanted to know about the mindset of competing in Master Class. Each of them has families and jobs and needed some thoughts on going up against pro shooters....
Tips for a High-Volume Shoot – Bolivia 2019
I'm home from Bolivia. Gil and I had a great week seeing old friends, making new ones, and instructing in the field on how to best take the dove and pigeon shots. Everyone did their gun mount homework. Slowing the birds down was big for most. But...
Kentucky, Colorado, Bolivia and Argentina!
We went to a new (to us) club - Jefferson County Sportsmen's Club in Louisville, KY. The flight over was interesting. As much as we travel, we haven’t had the pilot come on the speaker and say we needed to stop for fuel due to the bad...
April – Frozen to Blustery!
Gil and Brian got home from teaching the kids of SCTP in Frozen Butt, Iowa. After I taught the novice clinic and Easter coming up, we started a Coaching Hour on Wednesday. But there was so much static after 15 minutes, we decided no one...
19 Years at Camanche Hills!
It’s been 19 years that we have been coming to Camanche Hills Sporting Clays in Northern California. My, how time has flown. Next year we will have to have a party when our 20th year rolls around. We had some new students and some repeats, but...
2019 Spring has Sprung: Back on the Road Again!
Lessons from the Advance School We had two weeks of Advance School at the 74 Ranch, and what a great two weeks they were. The biggest thing we worked on was having a pause before you call “pull,” and the sequencing of your pre-shot routine. It took everyone...
Why Won’t You Practice the Flashlight Drill?
Brian and I just got back from teaching for four days at Ben Avery in Phoenix. They keep telling us they only get seven days of rain a year, but every time we come it rains. Then a cold front blew in and it got...
Where Did January Go?
Here it is the end of January, and where did the days go? After we all got back from San Diego, Gil and I went to Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada to do seminars. We had a full house for each of the seminars...