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Publications from The Paragon School of Sporting

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  Book I — Take Your Best Shot (2nd edition)

Daniel Schindler’s first book, Take Your Best Shot, helps you get organized before and after you step into the shooter’s box. Regardless of skill level, your shot should be planned carefully before calling for the target. To finish a shot properly, it is vital that you start properly.

Using clear, plain language, this book answers your questions about equipment selection; chokes and loads; set-up in the box; strategies; shooting methods and managing your expectations. Written for the novice shooter, each shooting tip is a building block for the more advanced levels of shooting.

Good shooting starts in this very simple, easy-to-read book.

Readers have responded:

After our lesson Saturday I went home & made a page of notes – wondering as I wrote why you had not included these pearls of wisdom in Take Your Best Shot. Later that night I re-read your book & saw every one of them not only listed, but emphasized (maybe except for ‘cheek time’). It’s hard to overstate the added benefit of personal instruction & illustration compared to just reading the book.

Jim Bode

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  Book II — To The Target

Dedicated to the Intermediate to Advanced Shooter

To The Target is, in a way, a map. Using plain language, it cuts through the mystery of shooting and shows you the shortest route to breaking one target after another — from the first field to the last.

Readers have responded:

To The Target is simply the finest literary work on the subject of sporting clays shooting available today. A virtual technical manual on the art and science of shooting sporting clays, it is absolutely essential reading for any serious competitor.

David Arnold, DO Davenport, Iowa

To the Target is full of valuable information directly pertaining to the shotgun sports. An essential part of any shooter’s library, I just wish it had been around when I started.

Andy Duffy, Holder of 8 National Titles

This is going to be the bible for all wingshooters. A stylish, instructional book, To The Target covers all the questions I have been asked by my clients. For the price of 1 round of clays, you will have your answers.

M. Palmer, Owner, Lone Pine Sporting Clays.

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  Audio CD — Beyond the Target:

An Introduction to Mental Training

Beyond The Target, an audio CD, is a perceptive, engaging introduction to the mental side of sporting clays performance. Produced and narrated by Dan Schindler, it provides the listener with a refined understanding of why shooters plateau, and why continued progress in the box and on the score sheet eventually becomes difficult. It offers a fresh, enlightening perspective on why our performance in the box is so dramatically affected by our thinking, beliefs, perceptions and concentration. The encouraging dialogue answers many of the key questions we’ve been asking ourselves before we step in, and after we step out of the shooting box. Delivering more than just suggestions and information, the author’s inspiring messages stay with the listener long after narration ends.

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This gets overlooked so much it justifies why we should take a minute to review. While there are some times when this isn’t all that critical, there are more times when it is.

Please stand up and extend your arms out to each side, parallel to the floor. Gently turn your body clockwise—now counter-clockwise. No surprise—your body rotates—but only to a point and then comes to a stop.

The target is a crosser, 90 degree angle, left to right and moderately fast. The trap fires and your swing begins. Remember now, your body is rotating but can only rotate to the right just so far. How far it can rotate will depend on where your feet are set.

Set your feet set incorrectly—too far to the left and back towards the trap— your hips will soon lock up and restrain your swing. Precisely when your swing is coming into your breakpoint and you need to be pulling away from the target—you can’t rotate that far! Trust me, you’re not aware of it but your swing is now slowing down just when it should be ACCELERATING.

Time and time again I see shooters of all skill levels get aggressive and set their feet towards the trap. Right on schedule and just before the trigger pull their hips lock up and the gun slows down noticeably. Result: the lead collapses and the shot falls behind. Slim and trim as I know you are, you still need to set your feet to favor your chosen breakpoint—not the trap.

Setting your feet properly allows your hips to OPEN, RELEASING the swing and follow through—a definite advantage and especially on those really fast crossers.

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Any of this sound familiar? You lifted your head. You should be shooting a tighter choke. Less choke. You missed behind. Over. Too much in front. You haven’t been practicing enough. You should have shot #8’s here. You need to slow down. Swing faster. You need to trust yourself more. Give the target more. Less. And the list goes on.

I respectfully propose to you that the above suspected reasons—likely didn’t cause the miss. I ask you to consider that your swing–from the first 3 inches of muzzle movement went unseen in an errant direction. Muzzle chasing or hunting for the target—in the time you have left before the trigger pull–it will be difficult if not impossible to get the muzzle into the right place. Lost bird, and the inconsistency on your score sheet–X0X0000X.

A swing you are not watching–did not see–can not be counted on to put the muzzle into the right place consistently. After 1 shot, a competent shooting instructor will help you see that swing error. See it clearly–precisely. Not where you missed–but why. Adjust that, 1 shot, 2 shots, 3 shots, 4 shots, XXXX.

Here’s an interesting question: did you just break that target–or did you break it on purpose? Advanced shooters very deliberately duplicate the correct swing. Guiding their gun precisely–they see–exactly what is happening on the other side of their muzzle, shot after shot. The result is not only consistent but predictable.

In order to find the real inconsistency in your swing–precisely–you must first see it–clearly–then adjust it accordingly. The key to improving is seeing–knowing–duplicating a swing that starts and finishes correctly.  If you’re not sure about this and have questions, consider consulting with a certified Paragon instructor.

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