Getting some practice in

Shot Saturday and Sunday, it was around 28 to 30 degrees and a litte windy but the sun was out. I shot 2 yard sliders where you start at 16 and go back to 25 yards on each post. Shot post 1 and post 5 sliders, shot some handicap and singles. Shot corner drills.

Within all that, some good shooting and some bad shooting. Hoping that the bad shooting will work out as the weather warms up.

You can't hit what you can't see

The clay target shooting books that I read at the end of last year talked a lot about eye exercises, both to improve the ability to focus and refocus over the course of shooting at a tournament (endurance) and to be able to quickly focus on and track a moving target.

I've been watching a 20 minute DVD everyday for a month which exercises the two ways primates track objects of interest. The first is saccades which allows the eye to quickly pick up a moving object. The second is smooth pursuit which allows the eyes to track a moving object. Both obviously important for clay target shooting.

On the DVD, you follow a dot with your eyes which moves at different speeds and in different patterns. It also flashes dots and series of letters on the screen to teach you to focus quickly.

I found this iPhone app which breaks the eye exercises into four categoires: analysis, reactivity, memory, and attention.

Our Wii has a target shooting game that I think also develops eye-hand coordination, focus, concentration, timing, etc...