Although Lucky McDaniel was only really interested in teaching instinct shooting to bird hunters and police departments, occasionally he would branch out into other fields— for example, in 1959 McDaniel taught the Cincinnati Reds baseball team to improve their batting average by 22% over their previous year's performance, and in 1961 they won the National League pennant. From time to time he taught golfers to lower their scores dramatically with an afternoon of instruction; and he improved similarly the performance of tennis players. McDaniel could and did occasionally teach people to pop a twelve-foot bullwhip accurately, hit aerial targets when shooting a blowgun, or throw knives. To McDaniel, any metal object with a point, from a ten-penny nail to an icepick, could be thrown and stuck up reliably and accurately in a very small target. His principles worked well in a wide variety of situations.