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Putting in the Time to Build Your Sight Pictures
Building sight pictures is why you practice. Not enough shooters put in the time to practice deliberately to build their inventory in their long-term memory. Most shooters just go shoot the course and play at practice with no preload, no routine, and nothing structured. If you want to get better, structure your practice around shooting singles in different breakpoints and deliberately predict where and how yo... Read more…
The Only Two Things to Consciously Think About
Just looking hard at a target will land you solidly in the mid 60s to low 70s. There are two things you need to consciously think about. One, keep the target on the correct side of the barrel. And two, match gun speed with target speed. Any more thought than that and you will overload the working memory! Read more…
You Have to Know What it Looks Like
It seems that there are coaches out there who tell shooters to just look hard at the target and not see the muzzle. But if you don’t know what it looked like when you pulled the trigger how do you replicate the shot to run the station? How do you self-correct after a miss? Read more…
You Need to Build Trust
Without prediction and execution of your prediction in practice, you are not building long-term memory. The part of this game that you are supposed to trust is what you have built in practice and in tournaments. You must practice and shoot tournaments deliberately to build your library. Read more…
Random Practice on Single Targets
Random practice, as opposed to blocked practice, requires the brain to retrieve skill circuits from your long-term memory. While you don’t get the feel-good of shooting the same target over and over 20 times, you’re training your brain to retrieve on the spot, which it will have to do on game day. Random practice can be singles or pairs, but in our experience, not enough shooters shoot single targets in diffe... Read more…
