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Originally Posted by Rastoff
There's your difference between the 5" and the Compact.
Try this the next time your at the range. With the 5" gun, extend the pinky of your shooting hand like you would if you were drinking "high tea" in Brittan. It sounds weird, but this has helped many shooters with the issue of shooting low.
When gripping a pistol only the middle and ring finger are used to hold the grip tightly against the base of the palm. The pinky and thumb should be relaxed. Of course the only thing that should move is the trigger (index) finger. If the pinky is squeezed with the shot, the group will almost always be low.
This is why I never say "squeeze" the trigger. The trigger should be pressed straight back. The only movement should be the trigger finger. When we say "squeeze", we tend to squeeze the whole hand and that tends to move the muzzle down ever so slightly.
Try the pinky thing. It will look and feel funny at first, but I bet it works. This is why the Compact is less of an issue, because the pinky isn't part of the equation.
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I don't think I would add this technique to a training regimen. IMHO, there is no substitute for learning the fundamentals of marksmanship. Unfortunately, many novices today seem to start out without any understanding of what the fundamentals are before shooting a handgun. Only after a lot of shooting, doing the wrong things, do they finally try to sort things out. By that time, they have ingrained a lot of bad habits and advancement is much more difficult, because they have to unlearn all those bad habits. Many novices start out shooting as fast as they can at very close range and if they hit the full size target once in a while, they are happy. Learning to shoot a handgun well requires proper guidance and substantial effort. One must learn to crawl, then walk, and finally run.