One of the most common complaints from shooters in their range time is that a certain gun is shooting low and left. Every time that they shoot that gun, they just keep hitting low and left on the target.
When they make that complaint, the typical first assumption is that their sites on their gun aren’t zeroed, meaning that the sights aren’t lined up correctly from the front to the end of the slide so that your shot is accurate when using the sights.
And, sure, sometimes the sights on a gun do need to be adjusted to be zeroed, especially if they are new sights or you’ve installed an optic on the gun that you haven’t, yet, zeroed.
But once that has been taken care of, the problem isn’t the sights or optic. In fact, the problem almost certainly isn’t the gun. No, the problem is the person pulling the trigger and their expectations going into the shot.
Our intent isn’t to give a lecture on psychology here or to go metaphysical in what we’re talking about here. Not at all. What I’m saying is that what you expect causes your subconscious mind and neurology to react in certain ways based on that expectation.
There isn’t anything strange about that idea. If you think about your life, you’ll remember times that you performed better in tasks when you expected a successful outcome versus how you performed if you went into the task expecting to fail or lose.
In today’s video, though, Carter gets a bit more specific about expectation/anticipation and about skill fundamentals when it comes to your performance when shooting. You can see that video below.
After watching that less than three minute video, do you see why I said that the problem is almost never your gun? (And if you didn’t watch it, watch it now. It really is less than three minutes.)
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“When they make that complaint, the typical first assumption is that their sites on their gun aren’t zeroed,”
Typo. Sights.