“How can you trust what you don’t see?”You missed? Here’s the good news. Every missed target leaves evidence in the shooting box. Primarily random gun movement (RGM). A sudden swing stop. Eyes glancing back to the barrel. A mount that starts incorrectly. A shooting method chosen out of habit instead of matching the target just launched. The clues are there but all too often unseen. This is why a shooter practices hard, shoots often, and remains trapped in the same cycle of OXXOOX. It's not a lack of determination or, for darn sure, not a lack of talent. It's what's not being seen.There was a time when I didn't see it either.The Book I’d Forgotten to ...

“To improve your shooting, change will be required.How can you change what you don’t know?”Breaking a clay target is easy.Anyone can do it once.The second target? The third? The fourth?What happened to easy?Like many experienced shooters, I’ve traveled that long road to breaking all eight on one station and then doing it again on the next. That kind of repeatability is not luck. It is a skill built through preparation, patience, and personal lessons learned the hard way.Allow me to shorten your learning curve.Lesson one: consistency doesn’t come from instinct. It comes from having a strategy. A strategy that minimizes swing errors—the same errors that ...

It’s about a lot more than just breaking the target.“For those who come seeking our advice . . . our task is not to instruct but to enlighten.”Daniel L. SchindlerShe came to River Bend with a group of maybe ten ladies. Most had never touched a firearm. Once inside the clubhouse, surrounded by anxious looks, I offered confidence and safety in each handshake. The atmosphere softened as smiles replaced looks of apprehension.Seating them around a large conference table, I explained that anyone who did not want to shoot today didn’t have to. A rush of relief went across many faces. I did, however, ask everyone to come and watch, supporting their friends in the ...

Why Luck Is Never a Shooting StrategyOne shell.One moment.Where you have your attention is already deciding the outcome—X or O.The mental game. How do we make it actually work? Not with vague, inspiring statements that leave us wondering what to do in the shooting box, but with simple, crystal-clear understandings that start delivering more X's.It all begins here.What do we all want?The target to break.Of course we do.So, very understandably, that's exactly what we try to do. And when we don't break it?We try harder.Typically giving us this:OXOOMore inconsistency."Sometimes" breaks.Shooting method for the next shell?Honestly?Hope. Back to "sometimes" breaks.There's nothing ...