If you’re shooting a cross-eyed target with a lot of lead, there’s a technique that can help you. This is especially useful for long, high tower shots, big, crossing belly chandelles, and shots that are 40, 50, or 60 yards away.
As you mount the gun, your nose is back over on the right and you can see the bird across the top lever. This is huge because it means the bird has to travel a long distance before it reaches the gun. Seeing the bird from a long way away makes it easier for your brain and hands to work together to stabilize the picture. The longer the stabilization process, the easier it is for the brain to consistently merge everything together.
To explain this in terms of dots on a graph, you want to see more dots after the gun is mounted. The more dots you can see, the easier it is for your brain to create the timing sequence of accelerating the gun to the bird speed and stabilizing the picture in the breakpoint.
When coaching people who have trouble stabilizing the picture, we find that it’s often the gun’s movement that needs to be adjusted. You need to move the gun a tiny bit earlier so that it moves very slowly when the target is closing. This helps the brain synchronize the merger more easily. If you’re having trouble getting jammed, move the gun just real slow away from the target when it’s still a good way out. This can make the merger easier.
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