Julie Golob, author of Shoot: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition, is a shooter, a hunter, and an ambassador for the Smith & Wesson Shooting Team. As a successful marksman, Julie started shooting with her dad when she was fourteen. She has been shooting competitively now for over twenty years. She says that every shooting sport is a little bit different and she learns something almost every time she goes on the range. She shares some tips on how to become more proficient with a handgun and what drives her to be focused and dedicated to become the exceptional championship shooter that she is.

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On our show, we welcome Julie Golob. Julie is one heck of a shooter. She has many awards. She has a book called Shoot: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition. It’s a comprehensive primer on shooting sports. Julie is also a dedicated Ambassador, and being captain of the Smith & Wesson Shooting Team, she has a lot of opportunities to share shooting with women, with youth, and with guys like me and you. You're going to learn a lot about shooting. I asked her some very pertinent questions about drills and how-to and why-to and how to become more proficient with a handgun. It's a great show.

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Julie Golob World Class Professional Shooter

We're heading over to Kansas City, Missouri and we're going to talk to a lady that's won a lot of accolades, won a lot of tournament as a shooter. She is an author, hunter, an ambassador and she’s a pretty good mom too. Julie Golob, thank you for joining us on Whitetail Rendezvous.

Thanks for having me.

How did this all come to being that you've been very successful as a marksman? How did that come together?

I think it all goes back to growing up in a hunting and shooting family, learning about safe gun handling and firearm safety rules, jumping into competition, having the support of my dad and learning so much that I fell in love with the shooting sports. I have just been really, really fortunate to be at the right place at all the right times. I started shooting with my dad when I was fourteen and hunting with him and then I went to my first Nationals as a junior in high school and met the coach and the army shooting team. I was recruited for the Army Action Pistol Team and then everything just fell into place there. Now, I am the Captain of the Team Smith and Wesson and I am living the dream.

You've earned that and ladies and gentlemen, she was the US Army Female Athlete of the Year and Army Marksmanship Athlete of the Year and it just keeps on getting better and better. What drove you to be so focused, dedicated and understanding the heart rate and the breathing and all the things you have to do to become an exceptional championship shooter like you are?

I think the one thing that I'm constantly learning about shooting, even to this day, I've been shooting for over twenty years now competitively. I think I learned something almost every time I go on the range and every shooting sport is a little bit different. I compete primarily in the speed event. I don't really care how I'm breathing and as long as I'm breathing. I don't care of what my heart rate is doing because I am running and gunning, but I've done a good bit of precision shooting events and particularly the NRA Action Pistol Championship Bianchi Cup is all about being calm and steady. I've been able to learn a lot about shooting in various different genres. I think it all comes down to being competitive as a kid and wanting to be the best at something. When I found shooting and hunting, that was what I fell in love with and with hard work and perseverance, it's come together quite well.

If there's a gal out there that never has shot a pistol, what are the five things that you would say, "This is where you start."