A shooter reached out through our website and I called him. He said he’d been working with his local coach and hadn’t gotten any better and needed help. He had sent me photos of eight to ten of his scorecards.
Now here’s a killer: there was no real pattern in his hits and misses. When I asked him how he was getting lead on the target, he said, “Well, I just tried to get the gun in front and when it feels right, I pull the trigger.” But he finally admitted he was pulling away on most of the shots and that is unforced errors.
There was no commonality in their occurrence. You get rid of the unforced errors and you’ll be in the 90s.
After I looked at all of his cards, I said, “Unforced errors are the difference between a 94 and an 82, or 84.” And more often than not, unforced errors are a result of a lack of a post-visual routine. Or, because there’s no post-visual routine, in your routine in getting ready for the next pair, typically on the third pair, you begin to be careful or you begin to try and want to be sure to do this. You want to be sure that’s right. You don’t want to forget that.
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