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Old March 23, 2011, 02:32 PM   #7
Old Grump
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If you don't have them already go to your toy store and get a package of snap caps.

Blank sheet of typing paper with a 1" cross drawn in the middle of the paper horizontally and vertically with a fine point black pen.

Tape or pin paper to wall, bulletin board, neighbors cow, refrigerator or whatever stationary surface you can find where you can post at shoulder height.

Muzzle of gun no more than 1/2" from paper but not touching with the horizontal line on top of your front sight and the vertical line straight up the middle and squeeze off that first shot. (REMEMBER THE SNAP CAPS)

Any mistakes will show up as a gross movement of the sight from the line. This is doing two things for you, forcing you to put both eyes on the front sight and forcing you to make a steady controlled squeeze. To make the job a one step procedure instead of two imagine the front sight is attached to the trigger and when you move the trigger back you are moving the front sight back through the notch of the rear sight.

Don't hurry it. Remember to breathe before bringing your gun up, if the shot hasn't occurred in 12 to 15 seconds put the gun down, breathe and start over. The drill isn't over till you have made 10 perfect shots. My first time took over 40 minutes and I was soaking wet with sweat and trembling like a leaf in a stiff wind.

Most people bull gaze during slow fire so they are not focused on the front sight but at a point between the target and the sight so you see neither clearly. Target won't move, you will, so control you.

Master this and then you are good to go for 50' slow fire targets, 50 yards slow fire targets or 100 yards with the same 50 yard slow fire target. Don't rush it, it will come slowly but it will come, remember that shooting is barely 10% physical, the rest of it is between your ears. Control your mind and you will control your gun.
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