Breathing Techniques...
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:35 pmYes, I know that rifles and shotguns don't relate...most of the time. You watch a lot of competition precision rifle shooters who most use a breathing technique where they get all of their air out before calming as this is usually the calmest point your heart beat and body gets. You can apply the same techniques to competition shotgun shooting. But the key is to not all of your air out because you still need to have enough air to call for the target. The key is to try to get down to the bottom of your breath where you call with your "gut" so to speak. The thing I do is the breathing technique is when I'm mount the gun up on my shoulder. By the time I have the gun mounted, I'm at the end of the cycle and call shit. To me, when I have most of the air out of my system during the focus period looking for that target coming out the house, the targets seem slow, easy slow. The first few times trying this, it will seem like you have to remember this every shot. But it builds into muscle memory fairly quick.
