Purposeful Practice
PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE This journal entry details how to get the most out of your practice time and prepare for it the best way you can. Competition shooting is great in that the match director can show you your weaknesses under pressure. You also get lots of repetitions and gun handling. A lot of people rise […]
Book Review – Saul Kirsch – Thinking Practical Shooting, A guide to Outstanding Match Performance
“The conscious mind cannot control our shooting. Shooting is too complex an activity to be thought through, step by step. In no way can you consciously think your way through an IPSC stage quickly enough to shoot it well. You cannot think about trigger control, and then sight picture, and then gripping pressure, and so […]
Good eggs
It had been quite a long time since I had competed in shooting competition, but a friend asked me to come along for an egg shoot, 100y, 200y, 300y with .22LR rifle on a full-bore range. My 22 was sighted in and trajectory validated at my local range so I thought I’d go along. I […]
Hard core
There is a lot of personal growth in doing hard things. For me it has shown me my weaknesses in a constructive and motivational way time after time as the years have gone by. It has been pointed out to me and become self-evident in retrospect that I prefer to be good at things rather […]
What’s in a Name? The story behind Black Sheep Straight Shooter
Toward the end of primary school and all through high school my nickname was Lamby. Some primary school friends still call me Lamby today, 30 years on. This nickname came about due to my very tight curly blonde hair that looked like lambs wool when I was about 12. I had a few friends put […]
