When I had my AYA fitted, the fitter and I hit it off and we had several hour long discussions about shooting and hunting. At one time he was a competitive shooter and his coach told him, "Focus Bob, you are not focusing. Bob said that he really didn't under stand what the coach meant and the coach never explained it. Later, Bob discovered what the coach meant and he explained it as follows: When you focus either on a bird or a clay target your vision is concentrated not on the whole but on part of the whole and that is all that you see and that part is as big as a dinner plate.
He told me to concentrate on the white ring on a pheasants neck or the head of a Hun. As an exercise, when I'm a passenger in a vehicle I look at the approaching highway roadside reflectors. They are mounted on steel posts and are no larger than 2" in diameter. In the center of the reflector is a rivet and that is what I concentrate on at highway speeds. At first they were a blur, but now I see the rivet and it is huge. When I'm outside working on our ranch, I take the time to focus on the heads of different small birds as they fly by me. Bob also told me that major league home run hitters claim that if they can see the stitches on the baseball anytime after the ball leaves the pitchers had, they hit a home run. Practice, practice and practice some more and you will be amazed at how quickly you will be able to focus

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Jim