Last time I went shooting I was squeezing with my whole hand and couldn't hit my steel gong.

This time I isolated my trigger finger from the rest of my hand muscle group when pulling the trigger and was much more on target.

Cleaned her up afterwards and barely any carbon build-up as I'm using dry lube. Shell casings were landing consistently in a pile for the most part.

I don't follow. How do you isolate the trigger finger? Thanks.


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One way to keep in practice is to extend your fingers and practice a trigger squeeze until you move only the trigger finger. When you start to get good work your off hand. It minimizes the movement of the gun from the hand squeeze.

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When using the 2 hand grip, hold the gun with your non-trigger hand more firmly and you hold the gun loosely with your trigger hand. When squeezing the trigger, you consciously make an effort to only pull the trigger with your trigger finger..............otherwise you may do what many do (and as I did) and squeeze with your whole hand, tightening your grip as you squeeze. resulting in the low and to the left syndrome. Notice how most of my shots are for the most part evenly distributed on the target. Before I was shooting so low and left I couldn't hit my 8" gong.

In addition to practice moving the trigger finger so that the other fingers don't move, I try to make sure the only part my finger touches is the trigger, not the frame or grip, and that the motion is straight back in line with my forearm.

I also exert the most pressure on the grip from front to back, rather than side to side. That way small changes in grip have less effect on sight alignment.

That's largely an exercise for precision shooting (i.e., SA, slow fire), but good habits translate into better DA and combat shooting too. Get it embedded in muscle memory, and speed will follow. Works with music too.

Can't wait to try this. Always a bit low and left.


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One of the columnists with Guns & Ammo -- a retired Special Ops trooper with extensive combat experience -- often gives advice about handgun use.

He says far too much attention is paid to the strong hand when shooting, and when you are able to use both hands, about 60%-70% of gun control should be provided by the weak hand (guiding the weapon, getting it on target), while the strong hand should be more devoted to pulling the trigger.

Grip the gun comfortably with the strong hand, use the other hand to direct it onto the target, and use the trigger finger to squeeze the trigger... It's easier than it sounds and while some may think it doesn't make sense, I've found that it works well -- at least for me.

Get a hand exerciser, squeeze it with all fingers but the trigger finger. Practice "pulling the trigger".



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