Trapshooting; points for novice and expert . The Shooting Groove is an expression someshooter once coined and it is—well, in effect it isthe thing which wins championships, that hangs uplong run records and which differentiates a 95%shooter from a 75% one. It sometimes changesa 75% shooter to a 95% one for a short you get into this shooting groove you knowit by a feeling of positive certainty that you aregoing to break target after target as they whizaway from the trap house. You know that youare going to hit them and keep on hitting them,that you have forgotten how to miss, that the
Trapshooting; points for novice and expert . The Shooting Groove is an expression someshooter once coined and it is—well, in effect it isthe thing which wins championships, that hangs uplong run records and which differentiates a 95%shooter from a 75% one. It sometimes changesa 75% shooter to a 95% one for a short you get into this shooting groove you knowit by a feeling of positive certainty that you aregoing to break target after target as they whizaway from the trap house. You know that youare going to hit them and keep on hitting them,that you have forgotten how to miss, that the birdsare so close and so easy that all you have to do isto point in their general direction and pull thetrigger. 17. ti$i£hu> ^•a^H«fe When a shooter is in this shooting groove itmeans that his bodily machinery is working smoothly,that his eye is true, and that his brain is telegraphingthrough swiftly operating nerves to muscles that areresponding accurately and instantly. It means thathe has confidence that knows no wavering, and thatwhile he may at times seem almost careless, so preciseare the directions of his mind and so perfect is theexecution of his muscles that he instinctively pointshis gun at the correct spot every time. This wonderful cant-miss feeling is the supremereward which the goddess deputized by Diana topreside over the destinies of huntsmen who followthe fast-flying blue rocks, bestows on her faithfuldevotees. 18 You have all known it sometime—you whoare regulars at the score. You will all know itsometime—you who are serving your novitiate atthe traps. And when you get into this shootinggroove, when you begin to feel the confidence, theease and the certainty that bird a
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