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Here are what a few of OSP's clients have to say about Gil and Vicki Ash and their unique teaching method. Students Praise the 74 Ranch Advanced Course: The Advanced Course held at 74 Ranch each year in March is a unique format in that there is classroom time as well as shooting time. It is a three and a half day emersion in mechanical and mental performance. At first glance you might think that it is only for "advanced" shooters, but OSP has structured it for shooters who want to "advance" their game or take their game to the next level. There is just the right mix of classroom and shooting and the shooting venue is second to none. The students seem to like the fact that everyone stays at the lodge at the ranch and they can talk shooting at all hours day and night. Again, it is a total emersion in mechanical and mental performance and the OSP Method. Student ratios vary from 3 to 5 persons per instructor with as many as three instructors. Here is what our students are saying about the 74 Ranch Advanced Course and the OSP method: “The 74 Ranch was generally excellent, breakfast and lunches were all great. The housekeeping was good and the sporting clays venue is excellent. I like the Advanced Course and I find it useful. That is why I have attended twice and plan to attend next year. I appreciated the patience and thoughtfulness with which I was treated. One instructor for four students provided a good balance between shooting and watching, overall a very good experience.” – Douglas Loescher “In spite of my vast three month experience and expertise Gil and Vicki were able to make a dramatic difference. They have an amazing ability to communicate with very diverse unique personalities. Learning to let go and trust my innate subconscious ability to hit that bird is a fascinating experience. When I trust myself and perform as Gil and Vicki have shown me…the results are almost magic. I really enjoy the time I spent at 74 Ranch. The facility and the food are fantastic, it simply could not have been better. Everyone on the staff made us feel like an honored guest in their home. The actual shooting was great. Based on my ability and experience I was apprehensive about attending an “advanced clinic”. The targets were great. With that many stations, that many traps, and that terrain there was something for everyone. I faced targets that were totally new to me. Out here in West Texas I don’t get to shoot a bird way below my feet, I’ve never shot a flying rabbit, a distant battue into a stiff wind, etc. Here I got to see them, shoot them, and learn that they are all just targets.” – Max McCart “ “The instruction from Gil and Vicki was great for both my wife and I. The venue was unbelievably good, very cool place.” –Thomas Hash “ “The advanced course was most enjoyable in several ways, Gil was his usual high energy self. With his suggestion for a change in my stance, I was able to consistently break the right to left rabbit targets that I have been struggling with for the past year. The course and facilities were all first class.” –Kenneth Layton “ “Is there any other method other than the OSP method? Other instructors that I have had lessons from only work on one or two problem targets with specific recommendations for those targets. Many times they neglect some very basic fundamentals. The OSP method truly is a method that can be applied to all targets at any course by any shooter who wants to improve. The method is absolutely great, but the real secret is in the application of the method by instructors. Their experience on picking up small details for individual shooters is extraordinary. These details are what make the method work. Anyone could go to one of the OSP clinics and parrot back the original information, but the instructors, Gil and Vicki Ash, know how to apply it to all shooters of varying knowledge and ability so that it works for everyone. The Advanced School is where the OSP method really comes into focus. It is three and a half days of total immersion in OSP. The shooters shoot together, eat together, and socialize together. The instructors are always there with the shooters and are available to answer questions at any time; on the range, at meals, or after the shooting day. Each shooter contributes to the learning as well, either by discussing their problems or by observing them as they learn and work out these problems. Another difference in the Advanced School from the three day clinics held at various locations is the classroom time that covers subjects like vision and how the brain functions and how training and practice rewire the brain to perform in a better matter. After attending the Advanced School, you know that the instructors have done their job and how it is up to you to do yours by putting what was learned into practice.” --Stephen Young Gil and Vicki, Here's a little note to wish all of y'all a truly Merry Christmas. It has truly been a unique year like none other in my 59 on this planet. Had it not been for looking forward to shooting sporting clays or skeet or the new pyramid each weekend the year would have been much more difficult. I DID manage to continue in the positive direction on my 5 year plan (journey) to reach my best. I earned a lot of respect from the shooters in our little club, which has held its own in this difficult economy. I kicked the top shooter's ass a number of times. I broke 90 consistently. I still have all my passion to excel in this wonderful sport and I found the "zone". Tomorrow I will have surgery on my right hand for carpal tunnel which has deteriorated the use of both hands considerably in the last month or so. Hopefully it will go well enough for me to have the courage to have my left one fixed soon. I told the doctor he has to do a good job because I had a championship trigger finger. We shall see. Thanks for all the good work you do. You make people better shooters and you give people insights so they can make their lives better. Not a day goes by that I don't enjoy something from you. Keep up the good work. Maybe we can get down there this year so I can work on the still weak points of my game. Call or e mail if you need something from me. Merry Christmas, --Larry D. Hi Ronda , Vicky and Gil, We have all your publications and look forward to recieving this new order , obviously shipping to South Africa is an additional cost , please try and send as soon as possible, I would really appreciate that. I trust that we have completed all the necessary detail otherwise send me an e-mail and I will help out. Please convey my shooting partner Nico and my truelly great appreciation, for the help and guidence we have recieved and gained from Gil and Vicky Ashe since we started to read and absorb your books , DVD`s and the coaching hour booklets. We are both profficient clay target shooters, but I must say that we would not have progressed to the degree that we have ,since being coached by you and Vicky this last year and a half. We are now really starting to reap the benefits of what you preach and teach and are finding the road to that ellusive town called Consistancy with far greater ease than ever before. Thank you for the book" You`ve Gotta be out of your Mind" we find that one has to re-read numerous chapters to gain the full benefit, on each occassion one learns something new, and so the hit rate goes up and up in small increments. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you, Gil and Vicky and all the good folk at Optimum Shotgun Performance , a really Happy Christmas and here`s to a New Year filled with Good Health, great Happiness and many visits in the Zone at Consistancy. Best regards your friend. -- Robert Dear Vicky and Gil, Just wanted to say how much I appreciate your training books and CD's----I started this game about 10 years ago, and have come a long way, I'm 61 years young ---so I don't see myself spending the money to do all the practice for tournament shooting, but I'm really amazed at what you say in Out Of Your Mind--never realizing what I was doing or how to improve on what I was doing Thank You. Although I won't be doing the tournament thing I will definitely be a promoter of what you are doing, I have always been at a lose when someone asks how far did you lead that target, now I have an answer Thank You. I do intend to keep shooting as long as I can, and will definitely send people your way. Respectfully Yours --J. Young Was fortunate enough to meet Gil at an instructor training facility in Wisconsin with John Higgins way back when, the year after Gil`s shoulder surgery. It was apparent to all attendees that Gil was destined to be an outstanding instructor, and he was enjoyed by all of us. I am now 78 years old, and shoot weekly, often 3 times and enjoy all aspects of the shooting clay bird sports. Shoot trap, skeet, and sporting. Often rotate in a manner to allow me to shoot all three in a week, so really shoot a lot of shells. Am one of the true nuts who shoot all winter long, when most courses in Illinois are wide open with no shooters. I have reloaded, and continue to do so after more than 50 years, and have for two years manufactured my own shot with the Littleton shotmaker and have suffered no loss of broken targets. You are the greatest, and shooting certainly needs more people like yourself as we will exist only if the young pursue the shooting game. Thanks for your service to the shooting sports.--B. Cross Dear Vicky and Gil, I have all your DVD`s and Books, and I would like to thank you both again for the huge input that your coaching and guidance has had on my enjoyment and on my scores in this wonderfull, even though at times frustrateing game I concentrate on the COMPAK discipline of clay target shooting , in the Veteran category,and am at that difficult level where I need to improve my score percentages upward from 80% of the winning score to 89%, and my ambition is to do this with CONSISTANCY. The FITASC Pan African Championship is being held here in South Africa not far from Johannesburg at the superbly prepared Hippo Creek Shooting Centre, in February 2010. My plan is to re visit your programs, re read " You Gotta Be Out of Your Mind" with particular referance to Craig Hill`s article on Complete Practise, thank you Craig, I have taken the advise and regularly shoot 2 x or 3x rounds of 50 to 75 targets, and then make a point of re shooting those targets I have struggled with, particularly some of the tricky, on report and true pairs. Between now and the Pan African I will make the effort to enter competitions at other Clubs so as not to be lulled into a false sence of security, or comfort zone of shooting higher scores on one`s home club ranges where one knows the course set up well eventually.I intend to practise fundamentals intently and getting them into my subconcious. I also re read your articles and re veiw the DVD`s, its amazeing there is always something new one learns ,or some problem one sees from a differant angle and then goes out there to fix it. Have a great day, and great week,chat again soon, best regards--R. Mohr, South Africa Hello Gil, I wanted to share an experience with you. In your book you talk about "trust" and "feel". Since working with your material I believe I am slowly developing both. For the last month I have been working very hard at this game. If I'm not shooting, I'm doing flashlight drills, reviewing your materials,etc. The other day I decided to just go have fun and "monkey around" as you call it. I called a friend and arranged to shoot skeet. I haven't really taken skeet seriously. Don't misunderstand me I believe its a great game, it's just that I use it as a break from sporting clays and as a way to just have fun. A friend and I shot two rounds and I was doing about usual for me on the skeet field (usually miss a few each round and station 3,4 5 are the hardest for me) and I did have a breakpoint picked out for all of my shots which was apx 2/3 the distance of the flight of the target. I also was somewhat conscious about the mechanics of my move and mount but again this was not practice this was just about having fun and blowing of steam. Later on another gentleman joined us and while I approached station 4 he started talking about a professional skeet shooter he knew that made a habit of breaking all targets over the center stake and all of his doubles in the same spot and how he looked at the house door and swung through and followed through and....buy this time I stopped listening because I immediately changed modes from having fun to practice mode and the practice was going to be "move the breakpoint to the center stake". High house came out and broke over the center stake. Low house broke over the center stake. Next station...same thing. I finished the round and shot two more and it was the best skeet shooting I ever have done. In looking back, I realized that "without realizing it at the time" I didn't even think about swing mechanics, lead, my score, or where the 2nd bird would be on doubles. My concentration was centered on only one thing...breaking the target at the center stake. It was an amazing experience to be shooting so well and be so calm and focused at the same time. The odd thing about it was that it happened by accident. I don't think I ever could have made the conscious choice to go out and work on being totally focused and calm and have it work out as it had...it happened because the only thing I cared about was breaking the target in an exact spot and no where else. This trust and feel stuff is great. Now that I have felt it I really want more. --Todd, Tamaqua, PA "Gil and Vicki are outstanding teachers. They teach techniques that any shooter can use to improve his or her ability. After many lessons with Gil he continues to push my ability with techniques for me to improve."--Bob Spencer, Concord, CA "Gil I attended your clinic on April 5 at Desert Lake Shooting Club. Yesterday, April 25, was the first time I was able to utilize what I learned from you in competition. The results were just as you said they would be. My scores have gone up along with my confidence. The winning score was 89, I shot an 85, which put me third overall. I had a great time at your clinic. I learned allot and it was worth every penny. I feel that you have a real passion for what you do in your teaching. I am not sure who had more fun, me learning from you, or you teaching us. I am reading your book, You Gotta Be Out of Your Mind and reviewing the notes I wrote from the April 5 clinic. My shooting continues to improve as your instructions become a more natural part of the shooting process/routine. Thank you very much for your help. I hope to be able to attend your clinic at Desert Lake later in the year to learn more from you. I know you said to give you a call every two weeks for updates on our progress, but with my work schedule, there a times I don't get to shoot for a bit. Thanks again and I will send more feedback in the future."--Michael Moon, NV "Having attended another shooting school last year, I was able to make a comparison and as I mentioned to you, I got much more out of your school. Both schools taught the same theory. However, you not only offered corrective measures, but you went into much more detail as to the reasons and detail of the corrective measures, i.e. focusing on only a portion of the target and what results when one focuses on the entire target. Thank you, Vicki."--Thomas Rowell, Crowley, LA "Gil and Vicki Ash take teaching to a new level...The return for their students is better than 90%....they have one of the largest followings of any instructors. We are usually booked up 3 weeks in advance with a waiting list...I don't know of any instructors that can consistently fill their clinics. These are the first instructors I have encountered in 12 years of being a range owner, that are an asset to, and truly care about the ranges where they teach."--BD Barsotti, Triple B Shooting Park, Los Angeles, CA "We help you achieve more than you think is possible." "In our recent conversation I mentioned to you my goal of winning the AA class at the Louisiana State Championship. I am very happy to be able to tell you that with your help I have achieved that goal. For your inspiration and guidance I am very grateful."--Kevin Candies, LA "Want to thank you again for the excellent instructions you gave us in Sun Valley. You are both very 'up' people and that made the day that much more enjoyable and interesting."--Harry Rinker, Newport Beach, CA "Gil Ash has enabled me through quality instruction to bring much more consistency in my shooting. Correcting problems comes much quicker by understanding both the mechanics and metal approach to shooting. Gil has truly helped me manage better both of these elements and bring pleasure back into the sport for me."--Mark Landry, Lafayette, LA MORE SPECIAL STORIES FROM OUR STUDENTS How We Teach • Teaching Schedule • Tips & Articles Our Services • Clinic FAQs • Products & Programs • Meet Gil & Vicki Client Comments • More Info/Sign-up • E-mail Us • Home OPTIMUM SHOTGUN PERFORMANCE SHOOTING SCHOOL Toll Free 800-838-7533 P.O. Box 826 • 29354 McKinnon Rd., Suite A • Fulshear, TX 77441 Voice: 281-346-0888 • Fax: 281-346-1500 Copyright © 2000-2006 Optimum Shotgun Performance Shooting School Gil and Vicki Ash of the OSP Shooting School provide shooting videos, shooting books, sporting clays, shooting instruction, skeet shooting, trap shooting, shooting dvds, gun fitting, bird hunting, and shooting lessons. Learn to shoot today! 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