An avid hunter, St. Louis Rams kicker Josh Brown knows the sinking feeling of an off-target shot. And Brown had too many wayward boots for his liking last season.

Brown, signed as a free agent in 2008, had increased his field-goal accuracy for three consecutive seasons -- 80.6 percent in 2006, 82.4 in '07 and 86.1 in '08 -- before dipping in '09.

He missed five times in 24 tries, a 79.2 percent success rate. It was his worst showing since going 18 for 25 in 2005 for Seattle.

"Those numbers are not the numbers I want to have or to reflect how much I care about what I'm doing," he said. "Took a lot of inventory this year in what we were doing and how we were approaching the game, and it's been paying off."

Brown, who teams with long-snapper Chris Massey and holder Donnie Jones, has been perfect in the preseason: seven-for-seven on field goals, including a game-winning 37-yarder last week at New England, and four-for-four on extra points heading into Thursday night's game against Baltimore.