Practice Tips - Cowboy Action Shooting

Learn from World Champion Cowboy Action Shooter Jim "Long Hunter" Finch how to maximize the effectiveness of your practice sessions.
Excerpt from, "One on One with Long Hunter." Order the DVD www.longhunt.co...
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[@lennie2651]

When cowboy action shooting started 40 years or so ago we used full loads and non slicked up guns,way more realistic and much more fun.now it's about winning and has just become just another. Shooting competition.

[@enjoypool4052]

I really enjoy these videos very nice presentation

[@terryperalta5777]

Let me tell you since I was 6 or 7 years old, always wanted to be a Cowboy, I just bought my holster with dummies bullets being at 44. I don't have a gun to go with it, because i dont know what kind of pistol to get, but i was thinking to get a replica from the internet to practice. I whish i could have the chance of getting to shot in a real contest or at least to how to draw the pistol in a tournament. I see this as a sport not as a hurting people or anything. I see you guys how you treat the guns with Respect. I enjoy so much your videos keep uploading more and more.

[@thegrayowl1557]

It's good to see someone who sees firearms as recreational instead of defensive. Too many people are concerned about how best to kill their fellow man

[@EBthere]

Thank you Jim.

[@bugman34202]

Great session.

[@yupyup4209]

Good advice!

[@riflemanslament9594]

I wish I lived in a country as free as yours

[@ErinJoKeck]

Winston Smith We are truly blessed, I don’t take it for granted. 🙋🏻‍♂️🇺🇸

[@MarkelBeverley]

As of 2022, It ain't free anymore.

[@micahdeese7234]

Hot topic snap caps or not thinking yes but hate them

[@thelonerider9693]

Being left eye dominant if I shoot the six gun one handed with my right hand should I aim with my left eye? New to this, sorry if its a silly question.

[@bully_hunter_4206]

Im left eye, right hand. I actually take the olympic stance and turn my body so my left eye lines up with my right arm as much as it can. Takes a good set of eyes for your sights to be that far though. Might just be worth learnin to shoot left handed

[@danielrickner7190]

I put a cant, about 45 degrees, when shooting with a plate carrier, so that the sights rotate into my left eye. no vest I use cheek to stock weld, using my right bicep as a "butt stock". It took me about a decade, but I was able to train my left eye to, "shut off" its dominance, by wearing a set of glasses with a scratched up left lens. I could reliably bring up my sights to my right eye reflexively, which is fine and good when my right eye has dominance. Unfortunately it is a perishable skill, so if I don't train it regularly, I'm back to being a floppy mess futzing around with sight picture after a few weeks of disuse, Taking a few minutes to get my brain to make my eyes cooperate. Whatever you do, when you find a technique to get reliable picture, alignment, and rounds on target, practice it, refine it, find its limits, and identify and train on new potential solutions. You may start with a 45 degree cant, train that for a few years and drill 100 meter shots instinctively, then discover that the learning curve for another method is less steep. You won't be as proficient with it, but may be able to surpass your preconceived limit, but continue practicing what you know works to maintain it, just in case you find a wall. Going back to training cross eye dominance out of you: I hold strong opposition to training your brain to train your eyes to follow the training you subject your body to, simply because that's training the body with extra steps. If there is a better way, I haven't found it, and in my case, the results speak for themselves; garbled gibberish, and I have better proficiency with physical manipulation than i do with mental gymnastics. Wish you well, and keep practicing

[@KiggenG]

Here's an idea for you... You show up at the range and shoot a cold stage, right? Well, how about the very last thing you do is repeat that stage?