...but I used to be a really great shot with my deer rifle. Then, one year, I decided that I had to have me a brand new Browning 300 WSM. It was a punisher. While sighting it in, I started to close in on what I was trying to hit....and then suddenly, every shot got farther and farther from where I was aiming. Didn't take long for me to develop a pretty bad flinch/jerking the trigger. I gave the gun away at my company's Christmas party that year, as I had had enough of that. That was 15 years ago, but it still affects me now. The only way I have been able to get it out of my head, every deer season, is to shoot an air rifle, over and over again, just before deer season starts. And- I am still nowhere near the shot I used to be. It's in my head. Big time. Reason being- I have yet to work it out on the range, with a real rifle, shooting real bullets. I missed the only deer I shot at last year.
Stuff like that is real. The fear of failing makes me not want to shoot, and not very confident when I do. But- the fact is that there is only one way I am going to be a good shot again- and that is to find a way to confidently shoot my way out of it.
I'm not the only person that's gun-shy. I know I still have being a great shot in me. Folks with that problem just need to keep pulling the trigger and find their groove again, me included.
bravo
Stuff like that is real. The fear of failing makes me not want to shoot, and not very confident when I do. But- the fact is that there is only one way I am going to be a good shot again- and that is to find a way to confidently shoot my way out of it.
I'm not the only person that's gun-shy. I know I still have being a great shot in me. Folks with that problem just need to keep pulling the trigger and find their groove again, me included.
bravo