Rethinkin' that Index Finger Position

[gizamo]

I'm going to suggest that everything you've been taught about trigger finger positions are all wet...when it comes to very fast competitive shooting. Especially when you finally come to a gripframe stock weld (hand position...not TIG ) that allows you to move beyond the pad of your fingertip to the pad between the first and second joint...as shown.

Try it sometime in dry firing practice....just strong hand. See if there is noticable improvement on how the gun's front site stays on target rapid fire. Works for some shooters...not all.

 

[rere]

I've tried this before. It may be OK for competetion, but things get wonky when it comes to presentation or if you use a Weaver stance. I realize you did say strong hand.

 

[lobosolo]

Thats the finger position that I have used for years,Both PPC and ICORE.It works well for me.
Jim

 

[haggis]

giz,

If I tried to grip an N-frame like that, the only part of my hand behind the butt would be my thumb. It would seem to work all right for someone with large hands. I think that the important thing is that the pad of your finger is on the trigger, as opposed to the knuckle. It just happens that it's the second pad, not the first as some of your smaller-handed brethren (like me) use.

Buck

 

[Iggy]

I am another who has done it that way for years.. 58 to be precise.

 

[Kirmdog]

You can to Brian Zins web site Brian Zins | 10X and check under fundamentals to see that he promotes a similar finger placement for Bullseye shooting, on the joint between pads. It's to lenghty to get into here but it has to do with the fat pad on the tip of your finger.

Kirmdog

 

[redhawk444]

I use the finger position discribed when shooting double action and also whenever I am shooting a gun that has a heavy pull.

 

[David Sinko]

Too much momentum is lost by curling and uncurling the trigger finger. Ed McGivern did all his astounding speed shooting one handed and used finger tip control. Finger tip control seems hopeless when you first start out, but after proper conditioning it becomes second nature. Another big obstacle to proper finger tip control is the scourge of smooth triggers. Triggers were grooved for a reason, and that's to prevent the tip of the trigger finger from sliding around when shooting fast. Somewhere along the line the gunsmiths realized they can make a fast buck by convincing shooters that the grooves are a bad thing and then charge them money to grind them off. And maybe smooth triggers are cheaper to make too?

Dave Sinko