How To Develop A Shot Process In Bullseye Pistol With Brian Zins

[@daleswanson1784]

As a young Marine shooter in the 70s I guess my process started a week or two before actually firing for qualification or before team practice started for the season as the years went by. I say that because we all showed up to the range at 0 dark thirty with a thermos of coffee and I learned that affected my shooting so I had to stop drinking coffee a few days before beginning practice, matches, etc. The same for smoking back when I smoked and for the same reason, both caffeine and nicotine cause blood pressure to go up and I learned I could see the front sight on my pistol bump up slightly at every heart beat/pulse, much more so when drinking coffee and smoking between strings of fire. You're right about the process becoming pick gun up, shoot, put gun down. I learned to strip away everything to reach a simpler process with experience. I learned for me that BRASS, the process taught by the Marines back then and I assume to this day, was all I needed as long as I stripped everything else away. When you can lie prone with a rifle and call shots between heart beats, you've learned to concentrate and strip everything else away.

[@nathanielehrlich1071]

In all your videos, there's one line that encompasses everything - the trigger is used to align the sights, and you pull the trigger as a reaction to what your eye sees. That's the whole process for me, and thank you very much. FWIW, I've been shooting only a little over one year, with the only handgun I own, a Walther Creed with no laser, no red dot. After a lot of experimentation, I shoot everything with one hand, some left, some right. I make sure that I never shoot the same routine (e.g. a bullseye at 7 yards) two loads in a row. I'll go from right-hand at 4 yards at a bullseye to lefty at 11 yards plain sheet of letter-size paper to lefty at 6 - or whatever - just so I have to adapt to variable conditions. So, I think your videos are very valuable to anyone who wants to prepare for the one situation that may - very low probability - demand that I get off one good shot quickly. FWIW, my Ph.D. was in the psychology of human performance. I think most people don't understand that if you are using a two-handed grip, your brain is getting two different sensations from the shooting and support hands, and that is too much information. Here's a little experiment. Put your right hand on a wall, lean in and feel your weight pressing into the wall. You're getting nothing from your left hand, because you are focussing on one thing. Put left on wall, repeat, and not that it will feel different, because no one is made with each hand (or side of body) being a mirror-image of the other. But again, you're getting one thing to focus on. Now, put both hands on the wall, lean in, and you will be asking your brain to synthesize two different sensations at the same time. That's an impossible task.

[@mikeflanagan6521]

Shooting legend right there.

[@jason90245]

What’s best breathing practice? Can I use shallow breath instead of holding breath completely. It takes 5 seconds for me to fire a shot. It is too long if I hold breath.

[@oldgoat50]

If you watch him closely he breaks the shot on exhale, nothing about holding your breath. Holding your breath will only show your heart beat in you sites.This is on slow fire........

[@jamesp739]

@@oldgoat50 My routine for slow fire was to take a deep breath, exhale as I bring the gun up, and just stop breathing at the natural pause. Everything was relaxed.

[@rg3412]

Great content but the sound quality is terrible.

[@josephpeterka2311]

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[@coble0369]

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