From TOP SHOT to 1,100 Articles: What Frank Melloni Learned That Can Make You a Better Shooter

Making Shooters Better · Oct 8, 2026 · 1h 7m · transcript

What actually makes someone a better shooter?

Frank Melloni has spent more than a decade answering that question from nearly every angle in the firearms world. A Top Shot Season 4 competitor and president of Renaissance Firearms Instruction, Frank is also a competitive shooter, precision rifleman, handloader, hunter, instructor, and prolific firearms writer with more than 1,100 published articles.

In this episode of Making Shooters Better, Frank and Terry Vaughan reunite fourteen years after Top Shot to talk about the lessons that only come from experience.

They explore the strengths and…