Category Archives: Shooting

Shooting styles and techniques. Recoil problems and solutions. Practice and training

  • Release Trigger

    Posted on April 22, 2015 by Alan Rhone in Krieghoff K-80, Shooting, Shotguns.

    A release trigger is a trigger that fires when you let it go, not when your pull it.  Sounds obvious but scary.  Why on earth would anyone want such a thing.  The answer is a little more complicated.  Many shooters, especially Trap shooters, suffer from a flinch.  For more information see my earlier post – Flinching. […]

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  • Flinching

    Flinching

    Posted on April 20, 2015 by Alan Rhone in Krieghoff K-80, Shooting, Shotguns.

    For those who do not know, a flinch is something that happens when you try to pull the trigger. It can take two distinct forms. The first is a jerk or snatch that pulls the gun off target at the instant of firing. The second is an inability to pull the trigger and can vary […]

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  • New Gun Syndrome

    Posted on April 16, 2015 by Alan Rhone in Shooting.

    Shooters often buy a new gun expecting that it will transform their shooting overnight and are disappointed when it does not.  Shooting a gun is the same as driving a car or anything else we do in our day to day to lives.  We rely on muscle memory.  Put simply, muscle memory is what we […]

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  • Stock Fit. Part I. The Basics

    Posted on April 15, 2015 by Alan Rhone in Shooting, Shotguns, Stock Fit.

    The single most important part of stock fit is the shooter.  If you cannot mount a gun consistently in the same place, time after time, no one on earth can make a stock to fit you.  I cannot count the number of times I have been asked to look at a stock fit only to […]

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