Is this logical?

[Rik]

Originally Posted by geoffretired

I'm wondering if surprise is the wrong word. Or perhaps it conveys the wrong meaning. Surprise, in the way I'm thinking means "too quick for me to get in its way" in other words natural reactions take over. Blow in my eyes and I blink so to speak. I don't think that's quite the same as "lack of control" more under the control of the subconscious, perhaps.
IF the forces at work just before release, are the correct ones, Then I have no time to disturb the form by reacting naturally to the trigger suddenly going slack. IF the forces were wrong, then a bad shot would result which ever way it was released.
I know for myself, that the surprise was quite disturbing when I first started shooting that way. Three weeks down the line and there are still surprises but they no longer seem so unpleasant.

Take the example of shooting in wind. If a shot is truly a surprise, then you can't control when it will happen with respect to the wind variations... If on the other hand the shot goes off more or less when you want it to, but is still a 'surprise', then I think you have an answer...

[geoffretired]

Rik, there is a lot of truth in what you say. I am now reaching the stage where I must admit to not knowing enough about the surprise to make any well-informed response.
What I can say is this; in a very short time I changed from14 years of target panic (on every shot to such a degree that the sight was never closer than the red before the release went off in a panic) to aiming well and steady until the release goes off unexpectedly. For me, that is a huge step forward.
Perhaps, when I get better at the "new way", the time will come when the surprise can be executed in such a way that the follow through remains just as natural( a pure reaction to loosing 50lbs) but the timing can be brought within narrower limits. This, I feel, will come when I can be patient with the trigger but confident with it too. At present I can be patient but hesitant.
In the hesitant state I would be no good in a wind, and what you said would be entirely true. With confidence in the mix, I feel, the way I will be shooting and the way you are shooting now, will be the same thing with different names. Or very nearly the same.