Meet the Most Decorated Shooting Family in America

Becky Yackley has been competing since 1989. She holds the Ladies' Metallic Division national records at the Bianchi Cup across all four events. Her son Tim is the youngest NRA World Shooting Champion ever. Her whole family — husband Mark, and sons Tim, Sean, and Andrew — compete on the world stage. She's heading to Greece for the IPSC Shotgun World Shoot and Mongolia for Rifle World Shoot qualifiers in 2026.

And somehow she still takes time to talk dominant eye theory, how to find a real firearms trainer (not a "tactical" cosplayer), and why she let her 4-year-old son shoot soda cans with a sawed-off Red Ryder in the backyard.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:17

Ladies and gentlemen, we want to welcome you back to Off the Beat and Path, the Shot Show edition. We're here at the amazing Otis booth. Shout out to Otis for opening up their booth to us to be able to podcast. Today we have an amazing, an amazing, amazing uh guest. Her name is well, well, here. I'm gonna just let Becky, yeah, intro. I've we've had everybody introduce themselves because every guest we've had on so far has been completely what trailblazing.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Yes, but also Maggie said she loved the way we hyped it up on our introductions, but we we've been passing it off this time. So that's been passing it off. Yeah, yeah, we're passing the torch. We're passing the torch.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yeah, I don't get hyped up.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Yeah, yeah, you do. Well, you hype your like I have to hype myself up. You don't even need the hype though. You're you. I am you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

You I am Becky Yeah. Like I do. There it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

That's it. We need like applause and some sound effects.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Yeah, we do have sound effects here. We just opted for no headphones, no headphones because it keeps some people get nervous when they put the headphones on and then they hear themselves.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Yeah, it does. I think it lends your conversational style, might change a little bit. 100%.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

And we're very informal, we keep everything relaxed.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

So uh what are my list of bad words that I can't say?

SPEAKER_03 1:32

You say whatever you want. I'm like thinking about it. Yeah, if we don't, if we don't, if we don't, if it's something that's going to social, we'll censor it.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

But I I'm just joking. Yeah, I mean mom. I try to use good good words.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Yeah, that's good. So yeah, I guess let's just jump right into it. Okay, Miss Becky Ackley, Mrs. Becky Ackley, introduce yourself to to everyone who's listening.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

All right, so my name's Becky Yackley. I am a professional shooter, but I also write and blog and uh do a lot of photo work and content creation. I might manage social media for some people, and I do a lot of different things, wear a lot of different hats. My whole family competes. Um, so we have Tim, my eldest, Sean the middle son, Andrew the youngest, and my husband Mark. And we've all been competing, Mark and I since like 1989. And then Tim and Sean and Andrew the last decade.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

89?

SPEAKER_00 2:29

89.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

So you were like three.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Thank you. So I started shooting service rifle, shot an M14 for four years for the state. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like 308 Iron Sights, the whole NRA, NRA service rifle. Yep. So that's how I started shooting, and then I shot smallborn air rifle in college, and that's how Mark and I met at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Um, and then that's where it was like nice rifle.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

So we shot right air rifle and smallborn.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

And then um, so that was like NCAA and then three position air rifle, and then we had a friend, Mike Douglas, was on the US team for free pistol and air pistol for the Sydney Olympics. Yeah. And there was another gal, Mary Beth Larson, who was on the US team for pentathlon. So she probably knew Tetsu you have to be able to. And so so Mary Beth and Mike got Mark and I to shoot air pistol and free uh free pistol that year because we wanted they wanted a team. And it was like one of the most fun things because we went to um the the West Point for the Collegiate Nationals, and like we walk in and you're like, you know, there's Mark and Mike and these two girls, and I think we took second or third. We we did pretty well, and there's like MIT and the Naval Academy and the Army, like all the you know, all the military teams, so it was kind of fun.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

That's cool. So though it's like you're like, of course, our children are gonna did they automatically like as far as getting into shooting, were they like coaxed and like no no no so or they are they're like it was in their DNA.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

When Tim was four, Mark was at the State Patrol Academy that summer, and his birthday's in the middle of summer. We bought him a little Red Rider BB gun, and the stock off. So like we found it a few years ago, and I took a picture of him and I with it because he's like now he's you know six foot tall, but his the stock was like this long, and there's a chunk that we cut off that was even longer, and we're like holding it.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

That's awesome. The little sawed off wherever he's in the backyard going on.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Literally, so I'm gonna die out. Yes, no, he had like chemistry goggles because he was four. What are you gonna do? You know, so I just like you can shoot all the soda cans you want, and I would sit there and let him shoot soda cans. I love that side alignment and sugar control and the rules of firearm safety, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Like that's what I did with my son and his BB gone. Yeah, except he wasn't four, he was like 14 at the time. So you said something. I learned this last year when we stopped by the high-vis booth booth. Shout out to Tess. She's amazing, she's the one who introduced us. She said to us, You guys know Becky Yagley? We're like, no. And she's like, you guys need to know her. We're like, why? She's like, why not? She's all around amazing. Yeah. And then she said, her whole family shoots. Yeah. So what was the like because to me that's impressive. I have children. My son is the only one. Well, my son and my youngest daughter love shooting. My wife is from Texas, so she loves shooting, but she's not like, oh, let me go grab a gun and go train. What was like, how was it getting the the children involved? Was it something that was just a um natural order of progression?

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Very natural. I mean, we so when they were younger, like BB guns, airsoft, they loved airsoft. Wow. I've got a story about airsoft, I'll stay for like remind me, there's an airsoft story. Um but they and paintball and all of it, like they love it all. But when they were younger, we were living at Quantico or near Quantico, and Mark was um in the Pentagon with the Marine Corps. The kids were doing wrestling with the Marines at Quantico, they did swim team, and swim team in Virginia is really big. Wow. Like there's year-round swimming, summer, but we just did the summer, and we'd go to these swim events, we'd get up at 4:30, 5 in the morning, we'd be out there, and then they'd say, Oh, well, the parents need to work concessions or clerk of course, or you need to help with this and timers. And I always felt like I want to see my children. I'm here with my family, but I'm not with them. And they're running around, and then there's points where you're like, I haven't seen the youngest in an hour. Where is he? And he is, of course, like, you know, eating candy, sitting under the little tent. But it we just after enough years of that, we felt like, why don't we do something we can all do together? So we just started back to competitions.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

That's awesome. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

So we again we had a 20 gauge with uh the butt stock sawed off in this really thick uh recoil pad. And the first three gun match we ever shot was down in Virginia. Um outside of Fredericksburg. Uh so like a local match. And yeah, that was the first three gun. And then, you know, just as as we got into it again, like back in competitions more, they would come with us. The youngest was nine at that time. So he would come to like a local league night and maybe he'd shoot a stage and then go sleep on the couch.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

That's so yeah, that is dope. Is there so who's uh is how competitive between y'all?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Well, so Tim, our oldest, he the one who got the BB gun when he was four, like he's sincerely the most accomplished. Like he's a grandmaster pistol shooter in US PSA. He's been on um IPSC rifle, pistol, and shotgun teams for the US on the official teams. Um the first two rifle world shoots, he was the top ranking US shooter out of everybody that went for the US. So he's very accomplished in that regard, but he's doing a bit of instructing now, some cool stuff. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Um and I think I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get. Didn't we? You have him, yeah. He's like six foot two.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

No, he's like he's like I don't know, the youngest is taller now. The the baby's the tallest, but yeah. Um but so Tim is really truly the most accomplished out of everybody shooting. Um and he also just has like people will watch him shoot and say, I don't know how he did it that fast, but he's very clean. And one of the best descriptions and how he gets there, we were walking stages for one of the big three gun matches, like in the heyday, um, Andy Horner's uh Blue Ridge Mountain three gun. And you do all this stuff with pistol in a barn, and then you dump your gun, that, and you pick up your shotgun, and there were you know, there's slugs, there's bird shot, then you're gonna go to your rifle.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Right.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

And my middle son Sean and I are walking the stage, and we're like, okay, so there's that slug, that slug, that slug. And Tim walks up, he's like, No, your feet need to be right here, and it was like clocking it a few degrees, so you could get like the best position on these slugs, and then as you leave the position, your body is already situated, so you're gonna you know, like he's thinking about it on a very like thin slicing that down to a microscopic level.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

That that's incredibly analytical, yeah. Yeah, that's like because I'm sure is it time-based, the the correct.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

So I mean, all action shooting has a time component, like whether it's some people call it time plus, that's one style. Then there's hit factor where it's points divided by time. So that's IPSC, USPSA. Um, and sometimes you'll have like a like a mix, like Blue Ridge used to be it's your time, but for every Charlie or Delta, you're gonna be down a half second or down a full second. So there we always gravitated toward the events that kept you more accurate, that were more accuracy focused. Um, we did Bianchi Cup for eight years.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

And the boys held the junior national title in Bianchi Cup for eight years running.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Um so each one of them. That is a one yeah, like that's all part-time.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

So honestly, for the kids That's all part-time, you said part-time. Oh, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Um, so it's one of the best sports for kids, in my opinion. Yeah, you know, you see the kids. I actually wrote an article recently, um, and it was about the safety in the shooting sports. And you go, you break down football, soccer, volleyball, the injuries that kids enjoy. I mean, sometimes they're legit. Um shooting safe, you know.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

The head, the tra head trauma's like from no question.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

Yeah, CT. I mean, you can see the the implementation of like the safety that they're trying to bring to a lot of those sports because of the injuries that that people have had. Right. Um, you said, so is this a full-time gig for y'all? Yeah. Like all of you.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Yeah, well, my husband is uh he just retired from 28 years in the Marine Corps.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

He was gone two years down at Marfau Res. Um he was like the talent management officer, and then he had, I think, like maybe a couple different hats, and then the few things they're tackling. Um, but so he was busy with that. Now he's just back to his squad car and the state patrol. So he's a state trooper in Wisconsin. Okay. And then our youngest is a mechanic, and he also has applied for the State Patrol. So we're supportive, but mom is also worried.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Oh, I'm sure. I mean, of course, yeah, yeah. Real world, uh, real world, um, what is it? What else the word I'm looking for? Why am I drawing a blank? Real world scenarios. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

Well, and that's you know, honestly, uh just the social climate right now, and there's a there's some different attitudes toward law enforcement. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. But um, and then Sean is going to school for machining and CNC. Um, and he he is also a blacksmith, so he does a lot of custom pieces. So that's pretty that's pretty cool. Like this morning we got to go catch up with Sarako because we've been out there to do the training for Sterakoating. Um and I did my rifle or my shotgun, rifle and shotgun, but I did my rifle with them for world shoot. And Sean has like a this I think it's a sword project, but he was you know chatting with them and he's he's like super artistic with guns.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

That is uh yeah, yeah. Imagine, hey mom, yeah, honey, got a new gun I want you to look at. A piece of art and something amazing. So I hand forged this.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Yeah, literally, yeah. Um, I'll have to share a photo with you when we're done. Uh he made my husband a knife for his retirement that he forged, but he used an old shirt from PT from 1999 when he was at Wayne. Yeah, so the Marine Corps Intel School, you go to Fort Wachuca after you do like um TBS and IOC and all that. Um, so he was at Fort Wachuca, and so we had this old red T, because we wanted red and gold with the Marine Corps. Yep. So he's like, well, maybe we can find an old shirt. So we found this old Fort Wachuca PT shirt and he layered it in resin so it makes like micarta to make the handle out and he turned it and turned the brass fittings, he cast brass fittings out of like old cartridge cases.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Yeah, how did he get involved with that?

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Um, so my dad he gunsmithed for Krieger barrels, rifle barrels for about 35 years. They're family friends. And then my dad got into blacksmithing, you know, over the years. It's just something he was always interested in. And so he did some projects with the kids when they were younger. And Sean just really embraced it. Like he had this little, we called it his shack, and it was like pallets against a fence, and he had tarps over the top. And my husband eventually was like, he's really into this. He had a forge that was from one of my dad's best friends, the best man in his wedding. Wow, it was his father's forge, just a little hand crank uh charcoal forge, and so that's where Sean started in this little like lean to tarp.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

I'm a grown man, and when I watch the Forge them fire, I'm like I knew you were gonna reference that. Yeah, I need I need my own.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

I've always been fascinated by it for sure. For sure. My my grandfather was really good here.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

My workspace is a recording studio on vinyl records. Yeah, that's it. I'm like, man, I should really be out there making it.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

We have to, yeah, we have to uh evolve our man cave space, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Every man cave needs like a weapon formation station.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

I mean, I do have my safe, but I mean, like, that's not like I mean, I did cut my fingers almost completely off the other night. I was chopping uh like onions or something, and I was like, geez, there goes my there goes my finger.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Maybe not knives, maybe you're the gunsmith. Maybe I'm like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we've got like, you know, we've got Tim or Sean is the knife blacksmith, Andrew's the mechanic, and he like All in house.

SPEAKER_03 14:29

Look at that.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Like we have a we have a 1978 or 75 backhoe. It's pretty old, but um he took and rebuilt the engine or transmission in it. I should know, but um he's so he's constantly doing car stuff. Tinkering and doing something, yeah. Tim is the I mean everyone does car stuff, like okay between Thanksgiving and now they've done a transmission or two. Um alter I think we had the alternators, solenoids, yeah, yeah, yeah, suspension parts. Like everyone, everyone's pretty capable. That's awesome. Um, Tim's the gunsmith. Tim's the one where you're like, hey, I want this, you know, just like so. You hand it to Tim.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

Yeah, that's awesome. Now, how often are the well, let's say, like Tim, for instance, he's in house for you, but will you say, son, can you actually customize this for me?

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Oh, uh yeah. I mean, whenever we're building up a rifle, like last year, uh, again, you talk with Tess. We went to Mini Rifle World shoot. I built my rifle, but I did have I'm like, hey, getting input from him where he'll he'll keep me from making bad mistakes or something.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Of course, because yeah, the the math behind that, because we're talking pinpoint accuracy, really with any firearm, but and building it the AR platform, that's one of the beauties of it, is that anybody can really build an AR. You know, it's just like the little idiosyncrasies of like, well, yeah, if you do this this way, it's easier. Or I mean something as simple as I'm trying to get the barrel into the upper receiver. If I heat the upper receiver, it expands slightly, right? And then, or if I heat the barrel to get, you know, like just little things like that that make a difference.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

But that's cool to have that understanding and be able to tinker with that stuff and play around with it until you hear it.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Where are you guys from? We're in Wisconsin. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

We were just up there. We had an amazing team.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

We went to O'Elclair.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

We went to a Glow.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Yeah, a Glow. Are you familiar with that? Eau Claire, the town. I know Eau Claire. Yeah. Yeah. We were there for um yeah, a Glow Associate. Great Lakes Outdoor Riders. It's their annual, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was cool.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

We've got a first peasant hunt. Yeah, very fun. Cheese curds, galore.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Peasants are so fun. Oh, it was amazing.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Spotted cow. We have spotted cow for breakfast. Yeah, we're like, we didn't realize that was a cult thing up there. Like, it's no joke.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

It's my husband's got a Marine Corps friend who came up once, and he's like, I mean, Wisconsin people like, you guys drink. Like they do drink a lot. Yeah, but we're not so much there, but um, we do, yeah, spotted cow. It's good. It's very sad because they're a little on the other side of politics from where maybe all of us are. Um, but it's a good beer.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Yeah, it is. It was pretty damn good. And then the wild rice soup. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Like a chicken wild rice. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

So I never had that.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Yeah, we had you. And I was thinking about you asked about the pheasant, like in true best bud fashion. You know, we had never been, we had never been pheasant hunting before. It was actually cool. But you know, you know, uh for for people that maybe don't know, you know, we're all in a line, right? Walking through with the dogs out front. Right, right. You know, everyone's communicating, talking to each other. All right, if it's over here, you shoot if it's right, and we're next to each other.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

They're like quadrants.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

And uh, you know, the dog, bird takes off. I look over at my best bud. Yeah, and I see him boom, and I see some feathers fly, but the but the peasant's still going. He's still going. And I go, I it's my turn. Boom! And I took him down. We were like, let's go!

SPEAKER_03 17:57

So everyone's like, only only to not be able to locate the freaking bird. Yeah, we ended up finding it. No, the dog was exhausted. He had already gone. Yeah, so they like four passes through the field. Yeah, and the uh the handle.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

He probably like four dogs.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

He's like, I gotta go get a new dog, and then by that time, the scent was gone.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

And they they will I mean pheasants will like hunker down in just threes. They will be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 18:22

Yeah, we didn't know that. That's cool. Yeah, and and you know, we were told obviously, like afterwards, most people love this type of hunting because you're able to talk, communicate, have fun, and then when you see the bird, boom, it's like go, go, go, go, go! We're deer hunting or any big game, you just kind of like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

So I'll give you a deer hunting story. Yeah, here we go. Let's go. Kind of an embarrassing one. Um, my dad had a really good friend who, Gino, Gino Gromf. He was from Colombia, his family was in Bogota. And he would go hunt with us, and my dad's one of my other dad's other like best friends. And we did a drive one afternoon, and they were like, All right, you're gonna sit here, you're gonna sit there. Becky, you're gonna sit with Gino. And so I'm like, okay, whatever. I was like 12, maybe. And we're under this giant pine tree, and they all go out to the end of the field and walk down through it, and they come back, they're like, Well, did you see anything? We thought we kicked a few up. And Gino goes, No, not with broadcast sitting here. Because he said I talked too much. So then I never would talk deer hunting.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Yeah, that is well, if you're depending on how young we are, that's adorable. We're loud already. I get it, I understand I'm loud. Like I forget how loud I am. We were, and I say this because we're documenting a deer hunt up in North Carolina, and I don't realize how even it's like every ear, it's an echo chamber. Even when I'm trying to be quiet, you know, but she kept looking at me like, I know I'm trying to be quiet. It feels like everything you do is amplified, like really loud. You know, I'm like doing a shh, like I'm like, I can't move and I like a camera gear or something. I can appreciate yeah, we're in the blind, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

And I'm trying to redneck blind, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Yeah, it was actually nice because my only reference of a deer stand was like with my pops 38 years ago in a hunting lease we had in Florida. You know what I mean? And we're up there, and he's like, Stop moving, stop, you know, and I'm like, okay, dad. Yeah, I walked up in there, I was like, yo, what is this? Yeah, you know, I had like green light in there, we were kind of chilling, but the movement, it just seemed like everything was yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

So our second season, this is our third season, our second season was featuring all amazing ladies. Okay, obviously, you're an amazing individual, amazing woman, and you've raised an amazing family with your husband. I wanted to ask you, because we got a lot of new listeners. Uh, our the goal with this podcast is to bring in new people into the space. What tips would you have specifically for women, young ladies, or grown women who want to get into the shooting world or any shooting discipline? What is some advice you'd give them?

SPEAKER_00 20:53

I would say like my best piece of advice would be to find somebody that you know and trust that's knowledgeable and just go to the range with them. If someone's inviting you, they're inviting you because they want you to have a good experience and understand firearms. Um, but doing it safely, it's really best to go with someone.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

And 100%.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

If you don't have somebody, then seek out a class, seek out some opportunities. You know, you can go rent a like where you guys are, it's a little, it's more suburb, I would say, like because you're in Florida. What part of Florida? South South Florida, yeah. West Palm Beach. I mean, if you don't have like you can't call up Becky and say, I'm gonna come over to your house and we're gonna go out on the range in your backyard. That's not the case that everyone has that. Um if you're going to a public range, don't just rent a gun, go with someone, you know, take somebody who knows what they're doing.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Because how would you vet uh like a uh trainer or someone?

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Um excuse me. I would probably start look at reviews, you know, look at look at good old Google. Yeah, good old Google. But what kind of classes do they have? Has someone recommended them? What kind of content are they putting out? You know, are they putting out good information? Um I think we we all probably see a lot of like trainers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Exactly. And air quotes for just the listeners.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

And I think the difficulty with that is you get a lot of like tactical kind of stuff. There might not be um it might not be your speed, yeah. Well, and not just your speed, but it might not be um like technique based not accurate information. I don't want to say I want to say like principles based is what I'm gonna do. Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Like the principles of shooting you mean right.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

So like our oldest son Tim, he taught out at Tactical Performance Center um in St. George, Utah for a while with Ron Avery when he was still alive and he was out there. Uh but Brian, you've probably heard of Brian Nelson know who he is. Yep, yep. Yeah, so he he kind of he was with Brian working with him. Um and their whole philosophy is very principles-based. Like there's certain things, it's not like, hey, bro, this is how I hold the gun, and this is my technique, and here's what I do, and say, or it's it's you have to do it. Here's what's happening in the the platform you're shooting, whether it's a rifle or a pistol. Here's the principles of like they call it like the fire control triangle, like grip stance, and trigger control. Yeah, those are the things you need to learn. And how you apply the principles to manage those things is what's gonna help you be more successful.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

So, what advice would you give? I have a friend, he puts his big old head on his shoulder, he goes like Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

I would say, um, first of all, I'd start with his looking at how he's gripping the gun, like what's making him put his head on his shoulder. And then I would say, just forget about turning your head or anything. Just put the sights on the target and you know, hold it on the target and now come back down and like naturally. What feels natural? Does it feel natural to do that?

SPEAKER_01 23:56

I'm the friend with a big head.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

He's a friend with a big head.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Um yeah, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's my eye, my di- I feel like I've maybe it's my I don't know. Maybe it is your what is it? I think that's what it is, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Because I'm we're gonna test it. Oh, yeah, let's see. You make like a triangle like this. Okay. Okay, hold that in front of you. I can cover like the shooter's choice thing. Okay, find like I don't know, the O and the Otis there.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

On the door.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

You're saying right here behind us. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

You can cover it. Now look at it with both eyes, put it in the middle. Yep, and then close one eye, close the other, see where is it.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

That was which which one does it jump for?

SPEAKER_01 24:34

I just got dizzy. It jumps from my left eye. It jumps for my right eye.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

So you might be left eye dominant there, huh?

SPEAKER_01 24:40

That makes sense. That's why I'm you're going like that.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

So, but just pick I I that was the simplest way anyone's ever shown us that.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Maybe I didn't. I felt like a shout out our boy Gun Daddy, who gripped my head like a baby basketball when I was doing it.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

But he didn't explain it that simple. I think I was like, When she said which one does it jump for? I was like, oh that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Similar or spatter, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

So so like investigate that carefully and look, right? But if you're shooting pistol and your left eye is your dominant eye, all you're gonna do, I shoot pistol with my left eye because I have damage to my retina in my right eye. So I'm I'm right-handed, I shoot rifle and shotgun with my right eye, but I shoot pistol, I use my left eye. And if I'm doing certain things, I'll use my right eye. It's just like I have better ability with my left. So you just bring the gun up and it's your left eye you're using. You're not you're not going like this. Yeah, because bring it up to your left eye. Instead of instead of here, it's like I'm just bringing it up a little bit differently.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

I have to work on that.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

You know what's amazing? She did it, and I can see her like her brain clicked. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Like it was like, oh, this is very natural. Well, think about it, bro. Even though we understood some of the, you know, my my taught me some of those principles as a very young kid. I didn't I retained some of it. You know, I knew how to handle a firearm, but at the range, I wasn't like, okay, what's my dominant eye?

SPEAKER_00 25:59

You know, like I just and and that's the reason why, like you're saying, if someone's brand new and wants to go, find someone who's knowledgeable because little things like that, like you don't want to get five years into shooting or or two trips to the range and be frustrated. You want to just have it as easy as possible, and some of that's just really understanding like first thing, yeah, figure out what's your dominant eye for pistol, especially. It's it matters.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Um because it's easy to just train more, man. We do, but we travel a lot, but we gotta train more. Think about it. I've been shooting for at that point, you know, my whole life, 45, 7, 47 years. And this guy that we were training with was the first one that like. He grabbed his head, yeah. He literally palmed my head and was like and he's like, What are you doing? Because I didn't even realize I was doing it, and I'm like, What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Have you heard people say, like, these there's two phrases. One, like, you know, like the tactical turtle, like, don't do that. Yeah, and but they awesome. What will they tell you? What's the phrase they use to fix that? What do they tell you to do?

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Relax your shoulders. Bingo.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

And what happens when you relax your shoulders? You're just you're kind of limp and loose, right? Limp and loose. Okay. Well, that's not necessarily what you want for shooting a pistol because you're trying to control the recoil.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

So think about it like this. Put your arms out like you're gonna shoot your pistol. Okay. I don't want to fight. That's a terrible. Look at this grip, folks.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Uh this grip is horrific.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

So don't let me push this up.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

See the tension in your shoulders up there? Yeah. And in your like your lap.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

You have some tensions in your body. There's functional tension. Like if you're doing another sport like skiing, we talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Oh, you're not gonna be like at the range.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

You're not like a limp middle, right? So when everyone says relax your shoulders, then people think like, oh, I've got to relax. Like, you're not relaxing it, you're setting a tension, but it's it's not turtled up here, it's down here.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

That makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

And then if you're shooting strong hand or weak hand, like if you go to a USPSA match and they're like, with your strong hand only, you're not just limply holding it.

SPEAKER_03 27:51

Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. We just rolled right over that. You will be required to shoot with your weekend.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

There are certain stages, like especially they'll have every single classifier, yeah, where it's strong hand, weak hand for USPSA for pistol. Yeah, um, and IPSC will do the same thing. Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yo, every sport should do that. Think about that.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Imagine like in golf, if you had to shoot, like there are some things where they they can't require, there's something in the rules about this, like they can't require that you do it, but they could set the stage up. So you're gonna go around the we had this in Thailand for shotgun, where everyone's gonna go around a wall on the left side of this big wall barricade, yeah, and there's a target right over there, and you have to shoot it. There's no way you're getting your gun in this shoulder around a wall, you're gonna hit the wall, and oh yeah, that is a penalty. So you're gonna switch shoulders and switch eyes and all that. They can force it, they can't tell you you have to, but they could the stage could stage design could force what you're gonna need to do.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Look at that. Time flies when you're here. Yeah, I can't. I just looked at the I just looked at it. So, okay, okay, okay, because we only have a few minutes left.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

We need we need her back on at the time. One, you're incredibly dope.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

You you just blew my mind in uh like several different ways. Um, but I wanted to ask you, what's in store for 2026 for the Yakleys?

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Okay, in store for 2026. So we have um I get to go to Greece for shotgun world shoots. Nice. Um, so out of the ladies that qualified for standard, I beat them all every time.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Come on, we need to.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

So you told me I had to hype myself up. There's my hype. Um and so I'm really excited about Greece and Shotgun, and that's like the big thing for the year. Um, I'm also gonna go shoot a rifle match in Poland. My boys have shot that one with me before. Um next year we have uh uh rifle world shoot in Mongolia, and we have qualifiers this year. So gonna do a lot of rifle shooting. Um, and then just like my typical like writing and blogging and um yeah, Bugatti.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Tim's instructing, Sean and Andrew.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

I'm gonna ask you in Mongolia. I'm gonna ask you a question. How do you like Mongolian food?

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Um She's like, I'll let you know next year.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Oh, you've never been. All I can think of is like is veggie tails, Mongolian. Wait, have you been there before?

SPEAKER_03 30:04

Yes, that's great. Veggie Tales, shout out to Christian cartoons. I love them.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

All right. Um How do people like tap in with y'all?

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Yeah, how do how do they find you?

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Um I have a website, it's Becky Yackley.com. I need to update stuff, but on Facebook and Instagram, I'm most active on Instagram, and it's just Becky Yackley. Becky Yackley.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

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SPEAKER_00 30:23

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SPEAKER_01 30:24

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SPEAKER_00 30:25

Y-A-C-K-L-E-Y.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

Awesome, cool.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

Yeah, so yeah, follow us there. And uh guys, we want to thank y'all.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

Yeah, we want to thank y'all for tuning in, tapping in, staying connected with us. It's been an incredible 30 minutes with Becky Yackley. She's uh professional at what she does, uh incredibly experienced. Yeah. Becky, thank you so much. Thank you guys. Thank you to all this for having us. And uh stay tuned for the next episode.