Sep 6, 2011
Sep 5, 2011
"If you're still shooting, you haven't....
.. shot your worst score yet." That's an old saw you hear around the gun club and I have this year as I have shot some of my worst scores ever. After competently grinding up singles targets for a few weeks, I went 21, 21, 24, 21 at Peoria Skeet and Trap Club on Sunday, my new worst score ever. The targets on the first field were poorly set but that doesn't excuse my performance.
Handicap started out good, 23 and 25 but faded and went 21, 21 in the last 50. If that sounds familiar, see below.
The club got a nice turnout given it was Labor Day Weekend and there were two bigger, multi-day shoots going on in the area. Its a nice drive down there on Rt 26 along the Illinois River. Weather was great. Its a friendly club and when I told one of my handicap squad members that I want to get Cal shooting, he offered to send me a AL390 stock for free, to cut down.
I was going to shoot today at Darien but took a pass.
Handicap started out good, 23 and 25 but faded and went 21, 21 in the last 50. If that sounds familiar, see below.
The club got a nice turnout given it was Labor Day Weekend and there were two bigger, multi-day shoots going on in the area. Its a nice drive down there on Rt 26 along the Illinois River. Weather was great. Its a friendly club and when I told one of my handicap squad members that I want to get Cal shooting, he offered to send me a AL390 stock for free, to cut down.
I was going to shoot today at Darien but took a pass.
Sep 3, 2011
WSJ - The Key to Putting, Not Thinking
That's the title of a story in today's WSJ and it reminded me of a quote from Leo Harrison I read somewhere. He was asked what he thought about when shooting, the answer, "nothing."
A couple of quotes from the story about Dave Stockton:
“The essence of Stockton's philosophy, hinted at in the title of Morrison's book, is that putting is primarily a mental art and not a physical science. "Everybody, and I mean everybody, tries to get too technical with putting. They put too much effort into the mechanics," Stockton told me. "I understand why that is. It carries over from the long game, which does require more emphasis on mechanics. But that's why the putting game is so much easier. The stroke is, what, a foot and a half long? It should be very simple. The main thing I want is for people to have the best mental routine so that physically they can just step up to the ball and let it go."
"Stockton's paramount emphasis is on strongly visualizing the line of the putt. Never putt until after you "see" the ball fall into the hole, he advises. And putt right away, while that vision is fresh in your mind, before conscious thoughts can intervene. At the U.S. Open, you may have noticed, McIlroy putted without a practice stroke. That's a Stockton staple."
I'm trying to think less and just shoot and it seems to be working better, broke 97.6% of my last 550 singles targets.
Grace at the barn today
A couple of quotes from the story about Dave Stockton:
“The essence of Stockton's philosophy, hinted at in the title of Morrison's book, is that putting is primarily a mental art and not a physical science. "Everybody, and I mean everybody, tries to get too technical with putting. They put too much effort into the mechanics," Stockton told me. "I understand why that is. It carries over from the long game, which does require more emphasis on mechanics. But that's why the putting game is so much easier. The stroke is, what, a foot and a half long? It should be very simple. The main thing I want is for people to have the best mental routine so that physically they can just step up to the ball and let it go."
"Stockton's paramount emphasis is on strongly visualizing the line of the putt. Never putt until after you "see" the ball fall into the hole, he advises. And putt right away, while that vision is fresh in your mind, before conscious thoughts can intervene. At the U.S. Open, you may have noticed, McIlroy putted without a practice stroke. That's a Stockton staple."
I'm trying to think less and just shoot and it seems to be working better, broke 97.6% of my last 550 singles targets.
Grace at the barn today
Sep 2, 2011
Aug 23, 2011
Kim Rhode
I thiought this was a cool picture of Kim Rhode that she posted to her Twitter account. She shoots a Perazzi MX 2000S.
Update
Been busy at work lately and shooting has been mediocre so have been slow to update.
Grand - Was great. We had a good time. Dad shot his best ATA scores with my Beretta 391. Cal got another knife. We had some good meals including this one at the BBQ place in the shooting center. The weather was great. I broke 74 of my first 75 targets in one singles event and then shot a 20 on the last trap. Best handicap score was a 95 which was a target short of getting punch/place.
Janesville - Should have stayed home.
DGSC - Shot there last weekend, they had a great turnout and the weather/targets was/were perfect. In singles, I shot a 23, 24 and then ran last 50. I had a hard time seeing the handicap targets, broke a 48 on first 50, then shot a 20 and a 23. If that sounds familiar, its because its the same goddamn thing I did at the state shoot. I think these 20s are the result of poor concentration, mental errors, so have some work to do.
Grand - Was great. We had a good time. Dad shot his best ATA scores with my Beretta 391. Cal got another knife. We had some good meals including this one at the BBQ place in the shooting center. The weather was great. I broke 74 of my first 75 targets in one singles event and then shot a 20 on the last trap. Best handicap score was a 95 which was a target short of getting punch/place.
Janesville - Should have stayed home.
DGSC - Shot there last weekend, they had a great turnout and the weather/targets was/were perfect. In singles, I shot a 23, 24 and then ran last 50. I had a hard time seeing the handicap targets, broke a 48 on first 50, then shot a 20 and a 23. If that sounds familiar, its because its the same goddamn thing I did at the state shoot. I think these 20s are the result of poor concentration, mental errors, so have some work to do.
Aug 1, 2011
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