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An Experienced Coach
The most frequent mistake we see all shooters do is not practicing deliberately. Deliberate practice is designed by you to improve the exact part of your game that keeps you where you are score-wise.In skeet shooting, 25 straight must become a habit. But a good honest evaluation of your overall game and what is holding you back from where you want to be is necessary to establish a practice routine to exploit your weakn... Read more…
Trying to Mount the Gun and Take the Shot
Trying to mount the gun and take the shot as you mount will result in inconsistencies that you cannot explain.You will never be consistently successful on longer shots that require a slower gun speed to match speed with the target speed, especially if you must apply medium to heavy cheek pressure.Soft mounting and going the same speed at the end allow for more consistent and higher scores and the bird slows down. Read more…
Gun is Always in the Periphery
I don’t ever look down the barrel when I shoot, nor do any of our students. The gun is always in the periphery and the target is always in our primary vision, so we are always looking at the target behind where the barrel is pointing.We are not trying to “not see the barrel” like so many shooters out there. It is impossible to visualize “not seeing something.”The brain cannot do anything if it cannot first visualize it... Read more…
Doing a Little Fishing
We are taking some time off and doing a little fishing. Since it is winter and all the bait fish have gone out of the bays, we have to change what we are doing to catch the fish that are left behind.That means I have to learn how to throw the new bigger heavier lure called a Corky or Fat Boy. It’s about four inches long and has not one, but two treble hooks on it. Just as I’m used to one hook, we have added five. Oh, j... Read more…
Eye a Little Higher Over the Rib
If I were a shooter that mounted the gun and looked down the barrel chasing the target trying to fix the shot at the end…Or if I shot pull-away, trying to fix the shot at the end…Or if I shot trap…I would want to have my eye a little higher over the rib so I could see the bird better! Read more…
