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Post by x101airborne on Jan 27, 2020 7:30:50 GMT -5
Ah! Now they work. Now I understand. Thank you!
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 28, 2020 12:04:06 GMT -5
"I have practiced yogic breathing technique (pranayama) for 50 years, started at 20.... easy for me to quickly relate to what Mr. Bradshaw teaches about breathing. David must be the frigging Buddha by now.” ----Prescut
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Prescut..... thank you for the kind words. However I’ve taken a meditation program with dancer Arawana, taken a program in Kyudo from a late, 20th generation bow maker to the Imperial Court of Japan, and introduced firearms safety & marksmanship to Tibetan Buddhist ceremonial guards, and handgun marksmanship to a Tibetan sawaong, and may harbor a trace of Buddha Nature, I make no pretensions to Buddha.
Interesting, nevertheless, a visiting Tibetan elder found my approach grounded in nature. So said his translator. It alarmed some American visitors, who could not square Tibetan Buddhists shooting S&W K-22's, Ruger MK II's. and Colt 1911’s, and loving it. “Never blame the instrument for your behavior,” said the master across a line of tables festooned with twenty Smith & Wessons, Ruger, Colts, with a few SIG/Sauers during the evening ceremony to conclude two days of instruction. “The firearm drives responsibility into yourself.” This, from a Tibetan Buddhist who experienced things we never shall and trekked the Himalayas to escape Mao’s Red Army in 1959.
Breathing delivers our target. David Bradshaw
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 28, 2020 15:48:37 GMT -5
Didn't the Dali Lama say he saw nothing wrong with shooting the person trying to shoot you?
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 28, 2020 16:02:43 GMT -5
Trey.... back during competition I experimented with different ways to pull the trigger, trying to get ahead of the OSCILLATIONS of OFFHAND, pull as you come onto target, etc. trouble is, the oscillation isn’t a perfectly consistent signature. To fight the oscillation is like fighting the gun, it screws up trigger squeeze. Trigger squeeze is one one thing our mind can dominate. Smooth comes from the mind; smooth steers through turbulence. Follow through drives rhythm. Time to step out, throw up a piece a blank brown cardboard. 15 yards will do. Take your stance, inbreathe. Preferably through nostrils, deep. Purr out through lips until lungs match atmosphere. By now you’re sighting, front sight square in middle of cardboard. Squeezing trigger straight back into where you breathe. The hammer falls to a sharp sight. Don’t wait for oxygen debt to cloud vision. Offhand, weight even in both hands1) DRY FIRE three to five :”shots,” each on fresh oxygen. 2) Load. Squeeze six rounds, fresh breath for each. Circle each shot. 3) Repeat #1. 4) Repeat #2. The eyes look; the mind sees. This is where FOLLOW THROUGH is made. Repeat the drill regularly, at any distance you choose. Blank target, no bullseye. Your mind centers your sights, squeeze, and follow through. Purpose: to squeeze through tremor. Perhaps it will help. David Bradshaw I have been doing this for the last several days now. I definitely think it is helping. And helping quick. My hands still shake on their own, but when I handle a revolver and breathe, they have really settled down. Now my Father thinks I am literally going to wear out my model 10, but I am having a lot more fun doing it.
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Post by cas on Jan 28, 2020 18:05:49 GMT -5
Didn't the Dali Lama say he saw nothing wrong with shooting the person trying to shoot you? It's on the internet, so it must be true.
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Post by prisedefer on Jan 31, 2020 12:56:06 GMT -5
Try a big change for awhile. Stop shooting groups, no attempt at continued precision, just plink, one shot at a target and move on to the to next, let the half second window take care of itself. Relax, forget the misses and keep going.
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