Shooting at a charging target

[275RLTW]

I've done a lot of coaching, and "slow down" is the worst advice you can give to any shooter.

You can only really work on one thing at a time. If "slowing down" is that one thing, you'll make all the same mistakes but slower.

But the advice isn't that far off. You need to figure out what you want to work on to solve your problem -- perhaps a better sight picture, perhaps a better trigger press.

Realize that working on something like that will CAUSE you to slow down. Allow it to happen. Slowing down becomes a side effect of solving the problem, not the goal.

Note the difference -- the object of your exercise is to solve a problem. As a side effect you allow yourself to slow down to solve that problem, versus slowing down being the object of the exercise.

Don't clutter your mind with "slow down". Focus (pun intended) on "better sight picture", "better trigger press", "better follow through" or whatever.

O2

I've found from my day or 2 as an instructor that most shooters rush everything when engaging a moving target. Since I cannot see any of his fundamentals, working on slowing everything down is a start for the shooter to see if there are any issues with the fundamentals. The phrase "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" comes into play here as usually fundamentals are usually solid before a shooter attempts moving targets.

[O2HeN2]

I've found from my day or 2 as an instructor that most shooters rush everything when engaging a moving target. Since I cannot see any of his fundamentals, working on slowing everything down is a start for the shooter to see if there are any issues with the fundamentals. The phrase "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" comes into play here as usually fundamentals are usually solid before a shooter attempts moving targets.

Don't disagree with this at all, because you're making the shooter slow down in order to help you diagnose the problem -- you're not using "slow down" as a solution to the problem. That's my point. Never offer "slow down" as a solution, it fixes nothing on its own.

O2