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“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 see the target slow down, I send the shot.” Or “Apply more conscious focus on the front of the target!” When we delve deeper into the perceptions of shooters wh... Read more…
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 thread that all these shooters are discovering that enables them to self-correct in the field or on the range: matching muzzle speed to... Read more…
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, changes the way he pictures the shot from getting the gun in front of the bird to always seeing the bird behind the barrel, then the bird a... Read more…
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 apart and step across the room and face the shells. With an empty gun, look at the center shell and mount on the shell to the right, which is the left-to-right sig... Read more…
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 data stream from their retinas to be interpreted. Just like your computer turns a sequence of ones and zeros into many different diverse objects and thoughts, your ... Read more…
