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Breathing Cycle!

I remember when I was going through Army Basic Training. The sergeant would look at my marksmanship target and say, “You ain’t breathing right”. Of course, it took a long time for me to understand how he could tell that by looking at my target; but, he did further say, “see the vertical movement in your shot placement – try this, it should help”:

• Take a breath;
• Let it out;
• While exhaling, notice that there is a point where you do not feel compelled to continue exhaling nor compelled to take a breath (normally when about ¾ of the air has be exhaled).
• Try again, this time when you get to that pointing – hold your breath for 1-2 seconds.

That is the time in your breathing cycle when you want to take your shot. Of course there are other things that need to come together at the same time, such as proper sight alignment/sight picture and of course the proverbial “Trigger Squeeze” – don’t jerk or pull but squeeze it. The magic is in the fundamentals and Practice, Practice, Practice!