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If you are going to ever shoot a shotgun at any level of consistency, you are going to have to learn to move and mount the gun. I’m still amazed at the number of shooters who think they will be able to shoot at consistently high levels without learning to mount the gun.

Our research shows that the amount of muzzle awareness in the shot will always be equal to or greater than the amount of muzzle awareness in the setup. This is proven to us over and over again, and we have seen consistent results on targets of all difficulties by shooters of all ability levels.

It dawned on me the other day that a shooter who insists on shooting with a mounted gun because they don’t want to learn to mount the gun has to look at the gun when they mount it to make sure it’s lined up. So guess what? Muzzle awareness in the setup yields muzzle awareness in the shot. It’s not going to change, and the more pressure they feel, the more muzzle awareness they will have in the setup and the shot.

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