I have a friend Mark Paaso who is an avid shooter.\u00a0 So I did what I always do when I get myself signed up for things I am not sure how to do.\u00a0 I reach out to people who are already doing what I want to do.\u00a0 Mark was very happy to help out and we have been training for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

Ok back to practicing with Mark.\u00a0 My dirty little secret of my shooting is that I have a flinch.\u00a0 I have always had a flinch from the first time i fired a gun.\u00a0 I have compensated by holding some distance above my target which is fine shooting at a big target like a deer.\u00a0 It is not fine trying to hit a bullseye with a handgun at 20 ft or more.<\/p>\n

My first day out we just got familiar with safety and how the gun functioned. Once we had that out of the way I just started trying to shoot.\u00a0 I am using Mark’s HK VP9 since I didn’t currently have a gun of my own. We needed to get a baseline for where I was at and go from there.\u00a0 My flinch quickly presented itself when I started hitting quite a bit below the target.\u00a0 I was perfect left to right but way low top to bottom. We went through some drills where Mark would have me not look at him and he would either give me an empty gun or a loaded gun without me knowing which.\u00a0 I then had to squeeze the trigger as slowly as possible until it clicked or fired.\u00a0 At the end of the hour my aim had improved but I was still flinching.<\/p>\n

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I also noticed while shooting that i had a hard time maintaining my balance. I was either leaning to the left or falling forward.\u00a0 Mark had a ratchet strap in his truck so we decided to try that to help with my torso control.\u00a0 It helped immensely and I became a lot more accurate. There was one problem th0ugh. It made it really hard to breath.\u00a0 Breathing is important.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I went home and did some research.\u00a0 I found a wheelchair chest strap that I thought would work.\u00a0 I was a bit apprehensive since it was so expensive, probably because it had the word wheelchair in front of it.\u00a0 I am trying not to spend hundreds of dollars making this happen. . If it didn’t work I would have to buy something else and then something else and so on. Luckily my dad and his girlfriend lisa helped me pay for it.<\/p>\n

I got the Bodypoint Universal Elastic Strap and couldn’t wait to try it out.<\/p>\n

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Of course I forgot it the first time out but managed to remember the next time.\u00a0 It works perfectly. I can sit up mostly straight and breath while shooting.\u00a0 I still need to figure out a bit more stable stance but things are really starting to come together. Thanks to Mark and some brainstorming we are really getting a system to work.You can really see how much straighter I am sitting.<\/p>\n

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