how can i keep my shot straight when shooting?

Question

i always seem to have my hand crooked or something so it goes sideways.

yeah when i flick my wrist it goes sideways or something

Answer 1

I am amused by the references to "guide hand". It is "guiding" too much! That hand, better referred to as the off hand, is getting behind the ball and is pushing the ball across your shooting hand so that it comes off the middle two fingers or worse. The posts about elbow in are good. The primary reason players miss left or right is the off hand interfering with the straightness and the second most common reason for that is that the forearm is not aligned to be straight.
If I were to watch you shoot, I would be looking at your follow through to see if your off-hand thumb is folded over your palm or if that palm is facing the basket. Those would indicate the problem that I am betting is the case.
Check www.star-shooter.net to buy a device that helps you get your off hand off your release.

Answer 2

It sounds like you need to go to a gun range and have an expert teach you a few things.

Things differ greatly between a handgun and a rifle. When you use a handgun the target is typically close and you care more about just hitting the center of the body before your target hits you.

Rifles are used when you want a good deal of accuracy. Here are a few hints (some of these can be useful with a pistol).
1. Breath control is key; you should breath evenly and when you are ready to shoot you should take a breath of air, let a little out and hold it until you fire.
2. Trigger control is important; you need to provide an even trigger pull. When you finally shoot it should be a surprise to you. This will prevent you from flinching before you fire and the even trigger pull prevents your tightening hand from throwing off your aim.
3. The sling isn't just there to carry a rife. You can use it to provide tension and support so you can hold your rifle easier and longer.
4. The most accurate position to shoot from is the prone position. Your left hand supports the weapon with the sling wrapped around it and your elbow is firmly placed on the ground. Make sure you are in a comfortable position that you can hold for a long time.
5. Braced rifle shots are more accurate. In the prone position you can use a sandbag to help support your weapon. However, leaning you weapon against something can create a continuing vibration in the weapon that will throw your aim off. The sandbag absorbs the vibration from the ignition of the shell until the bullet clears the weapon. If you brace yourself against something hard then the shock of firing the round will transmit some vibration energy into the object you are braced against and right back into your weapon throwing your aim off.
6. You need a good "stock weld" between yourself and the rifle. Once you sight in a rifle you want to go back to that exact same point time after time. So finding that sweet spot is very important or it will throw your aim off. Also the weapon is cushioned by your flesh so it can act like a sandbag and absorb some of the shock of the rifle. One excellent feature of the M16 Assault Weapon is the shock absorbing spring in the rifle butt.
7. You need to have a good sight picture and you need to reach that exact sight picture every time you shoot. A good sight picture has the target's center in the middle of the crosshairs or just on top of the sighting post (only weapons with telescopic sights have actual crosshairs, almost all weapons have a pair of sighting posts. You align the two posts and then put the target right on top of the post. You breathing will always change your sight view so a good thing to do is to plan when you are going to hold your breath and shoot. Watch your sight picture as you breath then when you are in the middle of an exhale the target should be on top of your post. Your sight picture should rise and fall with your breath.
8. Make sure to put your shoulder into stock, find the spot between your neck and your shoulder joint that has a pocket then place the stock in that pocket. This will help you to hold and support the weapon and it will help absorb the weapon's recoil.
9. The stance is important; you want a good stance that transfers the shock of firing thru your body and not back into the weapon. This means you have to allow for the recoil. If you are shooting correctly with the proper trigger control then before you can react, by flinching, the bullet will have already left the barrier. If you are tense then you will tire yourself out quicker and you will set up a shaking in the weapon that can throw your aim off. When using a pistol you want the recoil to expend itself safely. One good method is to let it flex your elbows and climb upward. When I fire a pistol I like to use the Welby stance where you hold the weapon with both hands, you usually want the firing hand to be straight while your supporting hand is bent at the elbow slightly. Your stance forms a triangle on the ground between your feet and where you weapon would be if it sat on a stand. You can do this with a forward, full body toward the target stance, or a side stance (which makes you a smaller target). Holding a weapon one handled allows your sight picture to travel all over the target and your accuracy suffers. Holding a pistol in "gangster" style where you hold the weapon parallel to the ground is just asking for a miss. It's a harder position to hold, you can't sight it in and your arm is working against the recoil.

If hope you have better accuracy on your targets, you should really consult a professional to see the stances and exactly how to hold the weapon. I hope that your targets are nonliving ones as well. Shooting can be a great sport that involves a lot of body control and skill. It can also be used to hunt animals or protect yourself. When the NRA says, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" they mean it is the person behind the weapon that does the killing.

NOTE: To a professional a gun is either an artillery piece or a word that described any projectile weapon that uses a round propelled by gunpowder. A handgun or a pistol can be held in one hand. Weapons that can be held in one hand and fire multiple rounds with one trigger pull are called submachine guns. An assault weapon typically has a longer barrel than a submachine gun. It can be fired one-handed, or on automatic, but it is much more accurate when both hands are used. A rifle (formally known as a long gun) is a weapon with a long barrel used to increase accuracy, and it must be fired with both hands.

Answer 3

Hold ball in your dominant hand by itself. Make sure you can see daylight under it. Keep it balanced there. Just put your other hand there to hold it while you shoot. Only one hand is needed in shooting a basketball. Flick of the wrist and roll off the fingers. The only pushing you should be doing is with the use of straightening your elbow and the power of the jump in your legs.

Answer 4

is it a rifle or handgun? this sounds dumb but get a stick or something, insert most of it into the barrel with a little sticking out and balance a dime on it, then try to dry fire it again and again until you can do it without the nickel or other coin falling off. This would work with either a rifle or handgun, a cleaning rod works well. This would solve part of the problem, the other part would be to make sure you maintain a proper sight picture, if its a rifle pay attention to the placement of the butt on your shoulder and where it touches the cheek of your face.

Answer 5

keep that elbow in, no chicken wings. keep eye on basket and flick that wrist. ball should roll of your two middle fingers. A good practice that a coach taught me is to stand five or six feet in front of the hoop and shoot one handed. Whenever you practice, shoot one-handed from that one spot until you hit nuthin-but-net 10straight times. It helps develop that straightness you lack, some muscle development to help you not get muscle fatigue, and develops a higher smoother release to get some arc on the ball.

Answer 6

u may be cack handed!! it could be the way you lay or stand, and breathing is a big part of an accurate shottry holdin in your breath once u want to shoot usually i breathe all the way in then all the way out in again then out then hold it and keep doing it everytime you shoot, and that made me the best shot in the county where i live but i do target shooting so could be different

Answer 7

keep practicin bcuz u prolly have a habit of shootin crooked and u r used 2 dat so da best way is 2 practice on a new or better shot

Answer 8

use your weaker hand to guide your shooting hand. and flick your wrist. works for me

Answer 9

stop breathing right before shooting and with one long slow exhale fire.Heck use a hand grenade, can you throw straight?

Answer 10

its not ur hand. make sure your elbow isnt sticking out to the side. thats what will make the ball go not straight.