Jennifer Herd Seymour
Glitter Britches
So I shot my second 3 gun match yesterday, Atlanta 3 Gun. It was my first match away from my local club that only has about 20 shooters. I had so much fun and learned a ton. My question to you all is how do you beat the mental game? I had one stage that I just totally bombed--timed out, FTE gallore, ugly mess! I think I mentally blew the stage. The guy that shot before me (a guy from our club that I know) DQ'd by breaking the 180, something I was already thinking about in the walk through since there were 2 targets that were close to the 180. There was also a verbal rather heated discussion about the DQ right before I shot. My mind was a little preoccupied with that and then I had trouble with the plate rack. I ended up timing out and it was solely because of mental errors. I went back for the first plate when I should have just left it (I have this hangup about mikes that I need to get over), I forgot that I wanted to take my pistol with me and dumped it then had to pick it back up, I lost count of rounds and went dry causing a surprise reload, And by the time all that happened I was shooting terrible. I basically unraveled on the stage and was slow as Christmas. So.......how do you overcome the mental side of it? I knew better than to keep shooting at the first plate, I would have done better to leave it, but in the heat of the moment, I just kept shooting it. Does it just come with time?