What’s the secret behind a novice outshooting an NRA world champion? American Sniper widow Taya Kyle told FoxNews.com how she achieved such a remarkable feat recently. 
 
 Kyle was pitted against NRA World Shooting Champion Bruce Piatt in the inaugural American Sniper Shootout Saturday. 
 
 The widow of Chris Kyle, who served in U.S. Navy Seal teams, was a professional sniper and is familiar to many from his book ‘American Sniper,’ describes herself as “absolutely a novice marksman.” 
 
 And she scored 100 percent of her shots, outshooting the champ. 
 
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 Credit for her victory goes to the firearms she chose, according to Kyle. She shot with TrackingPoint’s precision-guided M600, M800 and XS1 firearms while Piatt shot with military-grade rifles currently in use with U.S. forces. 
 
 Chris Kyle’s influence on rifle development 
 
 Chris Kyle played a key role shaping the development of TrackingPoint firearms. In 2009, TrackingPoint Founder and CEO John McHale and Kyle met and discussed the possibility of building a gun that could make a real difference in the battlespace. 
 
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 Taya Kyle clarified how her husband influenced the new tech. “McHale had talked to Chris before he was killed about what goes into making a shot at such long distances with such precision,” she told FoxNews.com. “Chris was talking to him about the computations, the ballistics, the earth rotation, all these things that take a lot of thought and math and sometimes time. And so John and his team at TrackingPoint just put all that into a nanosecond where technology does all the computations for you and really just need to line up the shot and take it.” 
 
 How did Taya Kyle prepare? 
 
 Max Underwood, who served as a Marine, worked with Taya Kyle on a range to help her prepare for the shootout. “Just to teach me the basic things that most people who shoot know really well – it’s breathing, it’s a certain type of hold,” she explained. 
 
 “We did prone offhand, kneeling, sitting - just all different kinds of shots,” she added. “For that, there’s no perfect one hundred percent perfect way to do that. Each shooter needs to find what really works for them. We just spent a lot of the week trying to figure out what that would be for me.” 
 
 Taking seemingly impossible shots 
 
 TrackingPoint rifles allow a warfighter to be fully concealed, out of sight from an adversary, and still accurately hit targets. 
 
 Taya Kyle hit a range of shots – including these highly difficult shots – with 100 percent accuracy. 
 
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 She described her experience tackling these tough shots: “There are times where our service members can take a shot while seated. And there also times where there might be a building where they have to do what is called a canted shot,” she told FoxNews.com. “There’s just a hole in the building and you have to work your rifle in in such a way so you can still get a shot off but it’s not a natural thing and you have to compute all different kinds of angles than you would the way you normally train - again the gun did that computing for me." 
 
 Kyle even nailed blind shots. She revealed how technology allowed her to make impossible shots. “I also did a blind shot where there was a hole in a wall and I could put the rifle outside and my hands outside the hole,” she said. “And I had glasses on where there’s a screen inside the glasses that can see what the scope is seeing so the only thing that's exposed were my hands on that rifle … and I could see what the scope was seeing line up the shot, find the target and take that shot without exposing any more of my body or face.” 
 
 In outshooting the NRA world champion, Taya Kyle, author of "American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal" raised over half a million dollars for the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation. You can follow Taya Kyle on Twitter @TayaKyle and for more on their charity be sure to check out www.chriskylefrogfoundation.org. 
 
 Allison Barrie consults at the highest levels of defense, has travelled to more than 70 countries, is a lawyer with four postgraduate degrees and now the author of the new book "Future Weapons: Access Granted" covering invisible tanks through to thought-controlled fighter jets. You can click here for more information on FOX Firepower columnist and host Allison Barrie and you can follow her on Twitter @allison_barrie. 
 
 

 Taya Kyle, the widow of “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle, defeated the reigning National Rifle Association 2015 global shooting champion in a charity competition Saturday. 
 
 Mrs. Kyle faced off against Bruce Piatt in a series of battlefield-simulated shooting challenges. The contest was a fundraising event for the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation and brought in $1 million for the charity, Fox News reported. 
 
 TrackingPoint, the company whose smart scope gave Ms. Kyle the advantage in the shoot-off, put up the $1 million to prove its Precision-Guided Firearms can transform novice shooters into world-class marksmen, according to Fox. 
 
 Mrs. Kyle managed to complete all 29 targets in the competition without a single miss while Mr. Piatt, using traditional sights, hit 58.4 percent of his shots. 
 
 “The technology of the gun was developed based on conversations with Chris [Kyle] about what factors a marksman has to consider on with every shot,” Mrs. Kyle told Fox. “The end result is technology that I know would have saved lives of friends we have lost and will save life and/or limb of those who put it all on the line for the 99 percent of us they choose to give their life for.” 
 
 The Chris Kyle Frog Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to helping military families acclimate to life after deployment. It aims to help veterans cope with the kinds of issues the Kyles faced after Chris’s deployments. 
 
 
 
 
 
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– American Sniper author Chris Kyle wasn't the only badass sharpshooter in the family. His widow, Taya Kyle, showed up NRA World Shooting Champion Bruce Piatt at a charity shootout in Pflugerville, Texas, over the weekend, hitting 100% of her shots on 29 targets using TrackingPoint precision-guided firearms. Piatt was apparently at a disadvantage using military-grade rifles carried by US troops in combat and hit just 59% of his shots amid explosions and simulated gunfire, per KHOU. Kyle tells Fox News her late husband spoke with the creators of TrackingPoint "about what goes into making a shot at such long distances with such precision" back in 2009. His insights helped shape the technology in TrackPoint's weapons that "does all the computations for you." Kyle, who describes herself as "absolutely a novice marksman," says she trained for a week with a former Marine who taught her proper breathing techniques and how to take offhand, kneeling, and sitting shots. In one particularly impressive move, Kyle poked her weapon and hands through a hole in a wall and shot blindly. However, she was wearing glasses that showed the view out the gun's scope. "I could see what the scope was seeing, line up the shot, find the target, and take that shot without exposing any more of my body or face," she says. After the event—which raised $1 million for the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation, per the Washington Times—Kyle said she was "passionate about getting the TrackingPoint guns into our warriors' hands … They are willing to give their lives for us; the least we can do is give them our very best in that fight."