Talent Requirements for Target Shooting: Although more research is currently needed, it is clear that successful shooters demonstrate certain basic mental and physical skills.
Vision
For one thing, vision is extremely important and although in some disciplines of shooting, poor vision can be corrected effectively, in general shooters need exceptional vision. This doesn't just mean good eyes; it means good visual skills, or the ability to use the eyes effectively.
Co-ordination
Shooters also have to be very well co-ordinated, although this doesn't mean they need to be good at ball games or other forms of co-ordination! But their ability to execute movements in an exact sequence in response to certain signals must be of the highest order. The exact demands differ from discipline to discipline.
Tremor
In many disciplines, shooters need to be able to keep themselves abnormally still. Some people have naturally low levels of background muscle tremor - they tend to be good shooters.
Balance
Many people depend almost completely on their eyes, to keep their balance. For example, someone who is extremely afraid of heights becomes afraid because all of the normal solid visual surroundings have been removed. Successful shooters can keep their balance by their awareness of their inner feelings - they don't need to use their eyes. Which is just as well, because their eyes are pretty busy aiming!
Mental skills
Successful shooters are people who can stick to a task very methodically, for long periods of time. In other words, they can really concentrate well. They also like being 100% responsible for their own results.
Successful shooters are also able to detach themselves from their surroundings. Here's a description of such a person written by Claudia Kulla, a Mental Training Coach for the 2000 Australian Team:
"The fascination of shooting is created by an inner battle the athlete fights against himself. It is how he talks to himself, which mental processes he runs through when preparing for the next shot, leaving everything that happened behind, as if it was history; showing no interest in what is waiting for him in the future; but just focusing his energy on the immediate - the next shot." "Doing that by resisting an infinite number of distractions, many, many times, maybe even over the time span of several days, sliding into and sustaining monotony by continuously executing perfection, carefully balancing between automatic and controlled processes with the ultimate goal to reach a state of unconscious excellence - "This is shooting." | 
