It's hard not to be impressed with a Big Dawg breaking those long-distance targets no one else can seem to hit. Final score: 97, a worthy accomplishment deserving of congratulations. Here's a look at how that score was built. This month's Tip asks you to look at your scorecard and review the score and the target presentations, individually, Station by Station. I'm willing to bet there's a pearl of information on that scorecard staring back at you, waiting to be discovered. I won't be the one telling you not to practice on those long-distance, more challenging targets. For good reasons, we should. But I am proposing that your best score this weekend won't be built on these ...
Last month we saw Gary lose the shoot-off because he engaged – moved his attention at precisely the wrong moment – to a distraction Gary claims Ed caused. Actually, you could say Ed caused it. But, had Gary not engaged – not turned around and looked at Ed – there would have been no distraction. That Gary did turn around and engaged Ed's actions – the distraction (and his miss) belongs solely to Gary, not Ed. It wasn't a distraction until Gary turned, looked and engaged. The ONLY person who was distracted was Gary – not Ed – not the Trapper – not the spectators – no one on the planet – just ...