Mind games

Shooting’s a mind game. How often have you heard that saying? Whether you’re out on the hill, on the rifle range or busting some clays it’s a phrase that crops up frequently.

But what does the phrase actually mean, and how can we start winning this so-called mind game?

Take any shot, shooting any kind of discipline, at any location with any type of gun aimed at any form of target or quarry and there’s only one certainty with regards to their state of mind – it will be different to the Shot standing right next to them.

We’re all different, we all exhibit diverse emotional characteristics that themselves are in constant flux – feelings that may be influenced by something as fundamental as our genetics or as trivial as what we had