hard time focusing during shoot

[Dave Worden]

Practice at long range is great.  I whole heartedly advocate it.  It's also a lot of fun.  That said, your problem seems to me to be a lack of ability to focus.  Use your busy target and learn to ignore everything except the ONE SPOT you're aiming at.  You need to learn to block out distractions.  I shoot a five-spot target worse than a one spot as my eye wants to wander to the middle of the target.  Therefore I practice with the five spot to train myself to focus on the one target that I want to hit.  I've gotten much better at hitting the corner targets.

[Ric O'Shay]

I bought one of this targets that are wild painted and very flashy. First thing I did was to take a black plastic trash bag and slip over the bag and tie the draw string together at the bottom. Then took a 2" piece of silver duct tape and placed it in the center. You might try that if you are have trouble seeing the whole target at 20-25 yards. It keeps all that "busy-ness" away from your focus.

[jkm97]

Having this same issue, good thread.