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Coach, OSP Shooting School

Brian was competing in sporting clays by age 10, became a multi-year All-American and set targets at national and world events before joining OSP in 2014. He writes about reading targets, what the target setter is doing to you, and the problems he sees in lessons.

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Why Do You Get Stuck in a Slump?

There’s a reason that everybody in sporting clays gets stuck at 72 to 75. In skeet, you get stuck at 88 to 92, 93.

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Lead is Forgiving

What we have learned, especially on the birds that intimidate you, is that the lead is the most forgiving part of the equation. If

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Getting Comfortable with Being Far Out in Front of the Target

Do you remember the first time you broke a target that was really out of your comfort zone? “Oh, I was a school bus

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Keep Your Nose on the Target!

Imagine that you’re at a tennis match, seated in line with the net and higher up in the grandstand. Would you put your nose

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When Should You Use Low Gun?

These days, it seems like target setters are giving shooters less time to hit the first target to make the second target consistently broken.

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Getting Your Timing Back After a Break

The first thing we lose when we take any kind of time off is timing. As we preach, everything is routine, everything is sequence-oriented

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Moving Towards an Automatic Routine

When you finally get to a level where you have a focus ratio of 90-10 or 95-5, your routine’s automatic. You look at a

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Better Focus Ratios = Less Confusion

As your focus ratios improve, there is less and less confusion due to neurological suspension happening. You are actually performing better with less visual

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From a 90-10 Focus Ratio to 98-2

At a focus ratio of 90-10, the leads seem very similar, with a few big ones still out there. But you’re beginning to control

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What Happens in the Periphery

Skill is not transferable. This is why many shooters who are trying to get better are going to a good shooter they know, but

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Believe in “Regardless of Result”

You will never rise to the level of your goals. You will always fall to the level of your systems in preparation. Now, when

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Excellence as a Way of Life

There’s a direct correlation between the way you practice and the way you perform. Most shooters’ evaluation of their ability is a little or

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