Stopping your gun! To break a target successfully you must keep your gun moving throughout the whole sequence of the shot, the reason many shooters, particularly novices, stop their gun is because they suddenly look at the end of the barrels at the point of pulling the trigger, and take their focus off the target. This is known as “Making Sure” or “Checking Your Swing” and of course should be avoided, as soon as you look at the end of the barrel and the bead, at that vital mo

Practice! Practice! Practice! And More Practice! Like it or not we only improve our skills, regardless of what they are, with Practice and this especially applies when we are trying something new or different to what we have been previously using and are used to, what we consider is the “Norm”, what in fact, we are comfortable with. It is common during a lesson when I change the way a pupil mounts their gun or alter their stance that they turn and say “That Feels Very Odd”, a