Secrets of Mental Marksmanship: How to Fire Perfect Shots

There is one thing that all marksmen-whether they're soldiers, cops, hunters, or competitive shooters-agree on: only hits count.

Depending on your role, it may be more important to be faster or it may be more important to be precise, but in the end it's the shooter who can achieve perfect shots on demand, all the time, who wins. To fire a perfect shot, you need to bring together a mix of very specific conditions into that single moment when the trigger breaks. Some of the required conditions are technical, some of them are physical, but the requirements that are most important-and most elusive-are the mental skills.

Secrets of Mental Marksmanship is a detailed guide to developing conscious and subconscious powers that will elevate your marksmanship practice, training, and performance to the level of expert shooters. Keith Cunningham and Linda Miller -- both champion shooters and master instructors, with decades of experience in the field and on the range, provide a set of tools that can be used to acquire and access the mental skills needed to perform to the best of your ability.

True stories from military and law-enforcement professionals, seasoned hunters, and world-class competitors illustrate key points about marksmanship in the field, on the range, and on the streets. By mastering the tools, skills, and lessons outlined in this book, you will be able to get into "the zone" and produce the perfect shot under pressure and on demand, whenever you look through the sights of a gun.

Linda K. Miller is an internationally certified marksmanship coach. She is the editor of CoachNet, a designer of competitive and professional marksmanship courses, and an author of numerous articles on shooting skills. She was a medal-winning member of Canada's shooting team and became the first woman to win the Ontario Lieutenant Governor's Medal for fullbore shooting. She resides in Ontario, Canada.

Keith A. Cunningham has more than twenty-five years of experience with the Canadian Forces and the US Army. He has considerable practical experience, including a combat tour in Vietnam, peacekeeping, and countersniper operations in Cyprus. He has taught marksmanship courses at the Canadian Forces Infantry School and at several police forces in Ontario. An internationally certified shooting coach, he has successfully coached numerous teams to national and international excellence. He resides in Ontario, Canada.