Jon filled the pp balls with some compound that would explode upon impact of the shot. He was an exhibition shooter at sporting events, and would throw them up and shoot them, giving a boom! and visual effect. He held the shotgun on one hand as he threw them underhanded. He mistakenly hit the buttstock of his shotgun with the balls in the other hand, which exploded upon impact with the stock. He lost every digit on that hand except his thumb and pinky finger. He pulls the trigger with that pinky. When Jon was in his prime he won nearly every sporting event in the US shooting that way. He struggled with a terrible flinch for much of his competitive career, and finally went to a release trigger a few years ago. Funny thing, the way he utilizes it ....... most release trigger shooters pull the trigger as they call "Pull!", then release it when the lead looks right. Jon doesn't pull it until just before he wants the shot to trigger, then instantly releases it.
I developed the same kind of flinch a couple years after getting serious about sporting. I asked him one day at a big shoot if he would work with me on my flinch. He laughed and answered "Who's gonna help ME!?" Both of our flinches were similar. We just couldn't get the trigger to pull when our brain said shoot. It is like a short circuit of an electrical system. I could usually recover and break the bird late, but it brought no small amount of amazement to my shooting buddies, and no small amount of consternation for me.
SRH
