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I was shooting matches every other weekend till I realised that I was stuck at a certain score and then naturally asked for help over here. After a lot of tips from David, Luftskytter, Bill Hornton and Lastman, it finally sunk in, I needed to train my trigger finger. And so I took to pulling out the pistol after work, while watching tv. I just keep my palm supported on a knee, while sitting on a low settee or on a table when near a table. Without putting much effort, I stay relaxed and cock the pistol and slowly squeeze of the shot. I do it about a hundred times. From Monday till wed I did it with the television on. After that I have been standing and doing it with a target on the wall. I try to feel the shot and keep squeezing the trigger even after the shot. One coach at our range told me not to stop the squeezing action of the finger even after the pistol goes click. So after doing this till Saturday on Sunday I put a target at about seven meters with the blank side facing me. It had been 42*C outside but I was in the shade and shooting. I began shooting, taking my time. I was not aborting anything as I wanted to isolate just the trigger sequence. After a while I had about sixty shots in a one cm wide hole but the vertical stringing was about one and a half inches. I decided to experiment about how tired I would get if I tried 80 shots. Not much of a hassle, they all went into the same cross like group. I enjoyed myself so much that I wanted to push it to another twenty. But after turning the target up side down. The next twenty went into a one cm by one cm hole barring four shots that went and opened things up.
I don't know if this is good or less good :-) (after reading so much about positive thinking) but I like this new training method. It is the fifth step on Lastman's tips to me. Since the major competitions are some months away I plan to do this till then. I feel as if this was the key to happiness that I was missing. A big thanks to all of you my shooting gurus, may your tribe always prosper.

Dev

Well done Dev.

It is great to hear that you are shooting well.

An old coach once told me that in order to be a great shooter you must learn to enjoy the monotony of shooting 10's. It took me a pretty long time to figure out what he actually meant.

Shooting well is a state of mind. The ability to replicate it under competition circumstances will determine how well you can perform. When you experience the state of mind where you shoot well, you must record everything. What you were doing, how you were feeling, what the result was and every other thing you can think of. The more you record the easier it is to replicate.

I am not a big fan of altering you training program at the end of the session as I feel it can be a distraction, sometimes you shoot so well that it's impossible to stop.

Keep up the good work

10 000 pellet zen?

lastman wrote:Well done Dev.

It is great to hear that you are shooting well.

An old coach once told me that in order to be a great shooter you must learn to enjoy the monotony of shooting 10's. It took me a pretty long time to figure out what he actually meant.

Shooting well is a state of mind. The ability to replicate it under competition circumstances will determine how well you can perform. When you experience the state of mind where you shoot well, you must record everything. What you were doing, how you were feeling, what the result was and every other thing you can think of. The more you record the easier it is to replicate.

I am not a big fan of altering you training program at the end of the session as I feel it can be a distraction, sometimes you shoot so well that it's impossible to stop.

Keep up the good work

Thank you for the encouragement Lastman, I am still not at that level(relentlessly shooting tens) but I am improving. Need to practice more regularly but this week has been bad so far.

Warm Regards,

Dev

Spencer wrote:10 000 pellet zen?

Soon Sifu Spencer :-) But in the meantime ,"Master have some tea!" :-)


Dev