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- What's up guys, Matt

Kitzmiller with Atlas gun works.

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So the question is what things

do I know now that I wish I

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knew when I first started shooting.

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So the first one is a question

that I get all the time,

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which is 'how do I practice?' You know,

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'How frequently do I practice?'

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'How long are my practice sessions?'

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The second one is 'how

do I manage recoil?'

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And that's something that I

kind of learned the hard way.

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It took me. I don't know,

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four years now to kind of figure it out.

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And I think I'm getting there.

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So heading out to Rio

Salado and get some reps in.

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Here we go.

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- Alright, so you got your

gear, get to the range,

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got all your ammo, your guns.

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What do you do when you get here?

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Simple. The same things that

you're practicing at the house,

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right? I like to have

consistency between my dry fire,

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my live fire all the time I wanted,

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I want to get those repetitions

in and have that consistency

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in. When I show up at the

range, I have a purpose,

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whether I'm ramping up for

a major match coming up,

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tackling some sites, some type of

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deficiencies that I saw

in previous matches,

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or maybe adding to something

that I'm already good at,

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right? Honing on some of those strengths.

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I have to have a purpose

when I get here. If I,

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if I know I'm going to

Texas, then guess what?

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I'm going to start practicing things that,

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that I know I'm going to see there, right?

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Those boys love to shoot,

you know, 90, 100 yard

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pistol shots. So guess what?

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When I'm at my home club,

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when I'm at I'm at this

range here, I'm shooting 120

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yard pistol shots, 130 yard pistol shots.

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So when I see them at that

match, I'm not worried about it.

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It's a cake walk, I've

done it a hundred times.

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I've practiced harder than this.

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It's not a concern like Josh

Taryn said that mental game is

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on point and I'm not worried about it.

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We have a way more things to

worry about how to match and to

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manage than hard pistol shots.

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So practice that when you're at home,

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I'm keeping my round count low.

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I'm not shooting 200 rounds to my pistol,

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200 rounds through my shotgun. It's,

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it's not something that I'm doing.

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I'm shooting maybe 50

rounds from a pistol,

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maybe 50 rounds to my shotgun.

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I'm here for an hour, right?

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Including setup and breakdown of whatever,

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whatever array or whatever,

whatever stuff I'm shooting at.

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So I'm not here for a long amount of time.

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I'm not bringing myself to exhaustion.

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And I'm sure as heck not going

to be here for 15 minutes.

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So I try to stay in that

hour realm. Keep myself

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honest while I'm here.

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Those are the important things that,

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that really like to say. That

I'd really wish I knew when,

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when I first started shooting,

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second one is, is recoil management.

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So what we all want to do is

shoot faster and more accurate

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or faster while maintaining

our current level of accuracy.

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So to do that, we have to

have strong hands, right?

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And there's only so much

you can do at a range,

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that's going to build

stronger hands. So what now,

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now we're thinking outside

of the shooting range,

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and now we're looking at cross

training in a gym, right?

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Or, or maybe your home gym.

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The important thing there is

to make sure that you're doing

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exercises that are strengthening

your hands, pull downs.

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Those are huge, right?

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Lat pull downs are something

that I love doing. Rowing.

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I almost row every time I go to the gym,

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2,000 meters at the middle

intensity and just nonstop.

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And it sucks for about 10

minutes when you're done.

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But guess what? 10 minutes

after 10 minutes goes by,

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it's fine.

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But most importantly, deadlifts.

Deadlifts really, really,

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really add to grip strength.

If I'm not doing deadlifts,

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I suffered my pistol,

in my pistol shooting.

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If I am doing dead lifts,

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that gun is staying in my hand

and it's moving when I tell

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it to move.

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And otherwise, it stays exactly

where it's supposed to be

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returning to zero very, very quickly.

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So those are the things that I

like to work on when it comes

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to, you know, everyday life.

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And there are two things that

I really wish that I knew when

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I first started shooting.

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Take care, have fun. Thanks for watching.

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