Sivnath Sastri College Blog

earning Curve – Long Or Short?Where do our shooting skills come from? How are they developed and acquired?With each trip to the course, each of us is building an inventory, or database, of muscle movements and sight pictures necessary to successfully complete a particular shot. At Paragon we call that,…..Familiarity. It is a mental inventory or database of sight pictures and swing movements – based on the target presentation in front of us. A presentation we will see again. And again.Building this critically important Familiarity requires training and repetition. Have you considered how you approach building this Familiarity, i.e., target inventory?Some do this by trial and error rather than deliberation and purpose. Through hunting, wing shooting, and trial and error on the Sporting course, this hit

TICAL COMPONENTS TO A SUCCESSFUL TRAINING SESSION October 2009 Shooting TipIt’s not uncommon to load up our gear, head to the range, stand in the first box and ask ourselves, “What do I want to work on today?” Consider a more productive approach.To get us on the same page – 2 definitions: “Practice” is more about reinforcing and strengthening a skill already learned.  “Training” is all about learning and building an undeveloped skill.1. Decide beforehand, specifically what technique, strategy, scoring skill or specific target presentation you want to work on. What presentation, distance and speed? Reading target lines more accurately — then holding those lines during the swing. Key to intercepting every target punctually – devote a session to marking more accurate, more advantageous “hold points.” How

Any of this sound familiar? You lifted your head. You should be shooting a tighter choke. Less choke. You missed behind. Over. Too much in front. You haven’t been practicing enough. You should have shot #8’s here. You need to slow down. Swing faster. You need to trust yourself more. Give the target more. Less. And the list goes on.I respectfully propose to you that the above suspected reasons—likely didn’t cause the miss. I ask you to consider that your swing–from the first 3 inches of muzzle movement went unseen in an errant direction. Muzzle chasing or hunting for the target—in the time you have left before the trigger pull–it will be difficult if not impossible to get the muzzle into the right place. Lost bird,