Dawn Grant's career has been built on something the casual observer misses. It is not raw shooting talent. It is the kind of focus that runs a one-hundred-target main event with the same intensity at station eight that she brought to station one. Matt Gay sat down with her in the run-up to the May main season.
The conversation covered ritual, the small choices a top shooter makes between targets, and the mental discipline that takes a top-five finisher and turns them into a winner. Dawn's answers are specific. There is no abstraction here. Every drill she names is one she actually runs.
For any shooter trying to close the gap from contender to champion, this interview is worth reading twice.
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