Sep 4, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 13 segments
Local rifle company Seekins Precision has established itself as a premium rifle company based on customer care. They got my attention after they honored their warranty by replacing a rifle that had…
I want to talk about pressure a little bit more, and then we're going to switch it out of a metaphor into real life physics here in a minute.
And from my perspective, it's when they're focusing on the outcome rather than the process.
And they get caught in this tension between the fear of failure and the desire for gain.
even though they innately understand that if I just go through this process and I've done everything correctly and I put the crosshairs where they're supposed to be and press the trigger without moving those crosshairs, then there's no magic or sorcery in the world that can prevent that bull elk from dying because that bullet hit him where I needed it to.
You've seen pressure in lots of different shooting situations, whether it's people that you're training out at Hat Creek or elsewhere, whether it was operational when you're in the military or just out hunting.
What's your take on the source of that pressure and the best way for people to mitigate it?
Generally, from what I've seen in every scenario, whether you're in an actual firefight or you are in a competition or you're on the clock or you're in a training scenario or you've set up some stressful outside stressors, whether it's physical or time or whatever, or you're hunting and there it is, the bull of a lifetime steps out, all the adrenaline dump, the hard breathing.
Normally, The pressure that I've seen comes from focusing on what they can't control.
So like at Hat Creek, we put a lot of guys on the clock, right? If we just let guys shoot until they got an impact, it's military guys, they got unlimited ammo, they're just going to keep shooting until they get the hit.
Precision shooting at longer distances, we need to be on target within primarily the second shot or for sure the third shot.
There's a lot of luck in there, but we should be able to make a real good correction off that first shot and for sure be second, third round hits, right?
Folks, I hope you're paying attention right now because this is some of the most honest shit you're going to hear about long range shooting from anybody.
I mean, it is what it is, right? If you are past, you know, six or 700 meters and the wind is doing the wind and you're shooting across the canyon, like you can only shoot what you can see and feel.
I want to talk about pressure a little bit more, and then we're going to switch it out of a metaphor into real life physics here in a minute.
And from my perspective, it's when they're focusing on the outcome rather than the process.
And they get caught in this tension between the fear of failure and the desire for gain.
even though they innately understand that if I just go through this process and I've done everything correctly and I put the crosshairs where they're supposed to be and press the trigger without moving those crosshairs, then there's no magic or sorcery in the world that can prevent that bull elk from dying because that bullet hit him where I needed it to.
You've seen pressure in lots of different shooting situations, whether it's people that you're training out at Hat Creek or elsewhere, whether it was operational when you're in the military or just out hunting.
What's your take on the source of that pressure and the best way for people to mitigate it?
Generally, from what I've seen in every scenario, whether you're in an actual firefight or you are in a competition or you're on the clock or you're in a training scenario or you've set up some stressful outside stressors, whether it's physical or time or whatever, or you're hunting and there it is, the bull of a lifetime steps out, all the adrenaline dump, the hard breathing.
Normally, The pressure that I've seen comes from focusing on what they can't control.
So like at Hat Creek, we put a lot of guys on the clock, right? If we just let guys shoot until they got an impact, it's military guys, they got unlimited ammo, they're just going to keep shooting until they get the hit.
Precision shooting at longer distances, we need to be on target within primarily the second shot or for sure the third shot.
There's a lot of luck in there, but we should be able to make a real good correction off that first shot and for sure be second, third round hits, right?
Folks, I hope you're paying attention right now because this is some of the most honest shit you're going to hear about long range shooting from anybody.
I mean, it is what it is, right? If you are past, you know, six or 700 meters and the wind is doing the wind and you're shooting across the canyon, like you can only shoot what you can see and feel.
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