SavageEagle
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- Apr 27, 2008
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I made you a left-handed one.
I always shoot about 6-8 inches left at 25 yards with pistol. SAO, and DAO, Glocks, M&P's, every time. I've always suspected this was my trigger finger. :::image saved:::
All shooting errors can be corrected b proper Stance, Grip, Sight picture, Sight allgnment, Trigger squeeze and follow through
And the various mistakes one may make in those things have names like "heeling," "pushing," etc. Knowing what mistake you're making is an important step in correcting it.
Example: when I started shooting my 1911, I had a tendency to shoot low. I thought that maybe the problem was the sights weren't aligned properly. However, I saw this chart (in a much earlier thread) and considered that I might be tightening my grip on the gun instead of just squeezing the trigger. I dug out my old Jennings, which has a very stiff trigger pull, with the idea that it would exaggerate such an issue if that were what I was actually doing. And son of a gun but if that wasn't what was happening. Shooting the Jennings for a while helped me to isolate trigger squeeze from holding the gun, leading to tighter groups and POI's closer to POA.
Being able to identify just what I was doing wrong helped me get better "proper Stance, Grip, Sight picture, Sight allgnment, Trigger squeeze and follow through."
Incidentally, the current issue I need to work on seems to be anticipating recoil. I spotted that while using a friend's Grendel P11. The Grendel has an even longer and heavier trigger pull than the Jennings and I noted that the muzzle would "dip" somewhere in the middle of the pull. I'm probably "pushing" and that points where I expected the gun to fire (although I still had a lot of trigger pull left). Need to work on that.
The chart is BS 99% of all shooting errors can be corrected by propper trigger press and sight picture and nothing more.
Only problem is what you're claiming here does not match with my own experience. When I first started shooting rifle, I had a tendency to use just the tip of my finger on the trigger. Maybe you can figure out why, when I did that, I had a consistent tendency to shoot to the left. No, don't bother. The reason I had such a tendency is that when I pulled the trigger that way, my finger put more pressure on the side of the trigger, literally pushing the gun to the left. Result, grouping to the left.Perfect example of why its a joke you can crush and squezze a gun to death no matter how hard it makes no differance as long as you do two things line up the sights and press the trigger straight back to the rear.. period not healing shoving touching slapping mashing yanking yawning etc matter..
we have shown this time and time again..in classes same Bs as the to much trigger finger to littel trigger finger etc.. it means nothing how far in your digits are on the trigger heck you dont even need a finger to press the trigger.. a pen. stick a glow stick a rifle casing etc we have used and shown students with... shooting a handgun well amounts to this and this only sights lined up and straight press of the trigger to the rear.. nothing more nothing less.