Shoot Like A Robot

On the way home from the Hell Creek Kustoms 600 match at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota last Saturday, I dialed up the latest PRS podcast on the World Wide Web. Ken Wheeler was interviewing Morgun King. 

You know Morgun? The guy who used to be known as “The Best Shooter To Have Never Won A Golden Bullet?”

Well, that’s all been rectified now. Morgun’s a Golden Bullet winner, finally, and he’s open about how he got there. You know? Shooting, practicing, discovering/learning strategies, shooting like a robot.

I’ve picked up a few things from listening to/reading what Mr. King has said. One of the first things - not on this podcast - was that the first time you look through your scope at your first match, your CPU gets overwhelmed, and when you look through your scope confidently at your 62 match - the data is the same. But by the time your seasoned self is picking up targets, your brain has learned to sort the data into useful chunks.(That’s not verbatim, but the essence is there.)

On the PRS podcast I listened to on Saturday, Morgun and Ken talked about correcting in the wind. There was a lot of back and forth between them, and, without disagreement, Morgun stuck to his stated formula of adding .3 mils after a miss on a half mil plate, cuz, “You never miss by much.” 

So you have to measure the plates so you know that ratio - 3 10ths on a half mil plate.

Kenny C. had missed the sighter plate completely on one relay at the Saturday 600 yard match, but almost cleaned the rack in spite of that. Hey! A two inch plate is a bit of a challenge at 600 yards! After the match Kenny C. was asked about that missed plate. He said, rather confidently, something about making the correction and going on. 

Learning he’d listened to the PRS podcast with Ken and Morgun created enough curiosity for me to turn it on - and learn that Kenny C. had implemented “The Morgun Correction.” Apparently it works. I’ll be putting that in my quiver, too. Hopefully competence matches confident eagerness.

There was more to this next thing, but it’s been said by some other top shooters in other ways, too.

“Believe the target” - Erik Cortina. He’s got a buncha 1000 yard F-Class stuff to back it up . . .

Morgun said that the evidence in what you’re doing right or wrong, is in where your bullet goes. You did that. It doesn’t matter how invested in it you are, or were. If you repeat the same thing, the bullet will go to the same place. 

If you’re in love with the wrong data and continue to use it without observing/believing the results, it won’t get any better. You can’t be invested in anything except the result. Don’t love bad data.

“Shoot Like A Robot  - Morgun King. He’s got a Golden Bullet to back it up.