When I practice shooting a handgun, I start by trying to stack rounds on top of each other. (Aim small, miss small.) Once I realize once again that I’ll never be a competitor, I try to shoot a dinner-plate sized group, as fast as possible, from as far away as possible. Having been instructed by some of the world’s best shooters, I reckon my grip, stance and breathing are A-OK. But the one thing that constantly bedevils me is . . .
flinching as I pull the trigger. I tend to push the gun’s nose down as I pull the trigger, sending the round lower than the point-of-aim.
If I concentrate, I can cure the problem. But if I’m under stress, I revert to this bad habit. I’m working on perfecting my trigger press — which gun guru John Farnham reckons is a Sisyphean task — by shooting/dry firing revolvers and hypnosis.
What’s your shooting weakness? What have you done/are you doing to fix it?
Okay, back to being serious. If you are flinching and pushing your handgun down in anticipation of recoil, I can think of three possible ways to overcome that:
(1) Start your shooting super slow and accurate and then work your way up to progressively faster shooting.*
(2) Have a friend load a full-size revolver and leave any number of cylinders empty. Then practice focusing on the front site and shooting slowly, like one shot every 20 seconds or so. Repeat this exercise a hundred times if you can.
(3) Acquire a handgun with a flat area on the top of the barrel/slide. Place a penny on the flat space and practice dry firing without that penny falling off. Practice that hundreds of times.
* Starting your shooting super slow means firing maybe once every 30 seconds or so with your entire focus on accuracy, which includes NOT dipping the barrel in anticipation of recoil. Do that for a couple hundred rounds over the course of several days. Then increase your shooting speed to once every 20 seconds or so, again with several hundred rounds over several days. Repeat this pattern reducing your time between shots to something like 10 seconds, then 5 seconds, then 3 seconds, then 2 seconds, then 1 second, then a half second. That entire process could easily take 3 months or longer.
Wow, that chicks holster is hot
I love my SiRT laser pistol. Not only can I dry fire much more, but i easily notice how much the laser wobbles from my trigger pull. I just wish the build quality was a little better.
That’s more practical everyday pocket dump
*Starts handing out pitchforks*
In more important news: Remington may go bankrupt.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/11/30/is-this-major-gun-maker-about-to-go-bankrupt.html
Flinching can be cured! I met a new shooter many years ago who was shooting a Smith and Wesson Model 29, .44 magnum with an 8 3/8″ barrel. He was flinching so bad that the bullets were hitting the ground under the target’s backboard at a distance of 25 feet! I heard him cursing that his new $800 pistol was a piece of junk so I stopped shooting and started talking to him. I found out that this was the first handgun he had ever shot and that he didn’t have any training either. That really scared me! I spent the next hour teaching him Jeff Cooper’s four Cardinal Rules of Gun Safety and instructing him how to shoot using my Smith and Wesson Model 18 revolver which was .22 LR. I also included some cap and ball dummy drills to show him how badly he was flinching. At the end of the hour he went back to shooting his .44 magnum and he was able to consistently shoot 6 inch groups on target. Learning how to shoot from someone who knows how to shoot makes all the difference. This gentleman is one of the reasons I got my instructor certification many years later. I still enjoy teaching today.
Thnx fer yer help.
That was the same help I received from a RO on a VERY slow (drizzle) day at the public range.
I asked him one question about the 7yd target and an hour later I was hitting an empty water bottle (litter) that had blown/rolled onto the berm 65yds away.
My first real lesson. And I thought that Glock 27 was the problem !!
LoL That was 5 yrs ago and today I shoot 12″x12″ steel plates at 150y.
THAT is why I “pay it forward” every chance with a newbie.
That RO was a karmic gift to my shooting experience.
I don’t have a double stamped AK or CZ Scorpion to do it with.
I am pretty sure the bill was amended to allow for the states that don’t have permits to just have an ID of that state. I don’t like her either but the bill was amended to do that.
Their claim of violent people is because some states allow violent misdemeanors to carry. Again, she is pushing the limit, but not really lying.
I hate her too, and she is blowing it out of proportion, but lying she is not.
Violent Criminals to Nancy Pelosi – “We don’t need an invitation to commit crime(s)”. “Because of your crappy common-core public school program we know what a transvestite is, but we couldn’t read it out of a book, so any invitation better be oral anyway”. “The one person that could’ve saved you from our villainous murderous desires towards you, you aborted. Thank you.”
moving to Austin on Monday and I’m bringing my entire firearms collection with me!
LOL, that’s what’s known as “Peak Pelosi”. How does she dress herself every morning?
States have no more enumerated authority to infringe upon RKBA than does the federal government. Thus, the federal government acting to prevent states from infringing upon RKBA is not, and cannot be, a violation of “states’ rights.”
The people of New York City do not have the authority or right to infringe upon my inherent, natural, civil, and constitutionally protected right to RKBA.
Federally mandated state reciprocity of state-issued firearm carry licenses grossly *expands* the protection of individual exercise of RKBA. It is a net positive, and the calculus isn’t even close.
Looks interesting, but I’ll pass. “round 158 failed” and no hammer!
So you fired 157 rounds at the range, and on your way home you get car jacked! You raise your weapon and fire, but nothing happens, except you get shot by the bad guy. If you had a double/singe action weapon, depending on what the failure was, pulling the trigger again instantly might have saved your life.
Of course I don’t know what the failure was, so the above analogy is hypothetical. I am set to buy one of the new Springfield XDE’s. I know some folks will have a problem with me buying an XDE, but I am somewhat disabled, and this gun is very easy to rack, and is the smallest 9, DA/SA on the market. Price, $440 at my LGS, Cabela’s, full MSRP $519
I have been carrying a Ruger SLR, and love it, but 5 rounds leaves me a little apprehensive, and the weapon is not quick to reload.
I agree philosophically that there should be no infringement on 2A issues, but the reality is we have lost that already. I sit in the great state of Commiefornia which is much further along in taking away my rights than the rest of you (HI, NY, NJ, etc. excepted). Reciprocity is a crumb of a right being tossed at us but the alternative of where we were sitting is worse. The challenge is half of the population is willing to give up some of their rights while the other tries really hard to hang onto them. What to do? They are not going to leave us alone, ever. No Hughes act repeal. No dissolving of the ATF. We might get suppressors but thats a maybe.
What frustrates me is there is probably enough voters that believe in the 2A to change this (assuming they can get one member of their family to vote with them) but we cant do it. We bicker among ourselves and will sacrifice the other firearms owners to keep our piece safe. Its sitting in front of us waiting to be taken back.
Your argument is essentially that it is not okay for the feds to infringe on the rights of the individual states to infringe on the 2nd Amendment. You justify this by saying that if 50% plus one vote is for infringement, then that is all well and good. The problem with your justification is that states are required to adhere to the enumerated rights listed in the Amendments, no matter how voters in that state feel. Would you tell Trump that since Hillary got more votes, he needs to get out of the White House? The reason we have the Constitution is to control the excesses of a pure democracy.
“Question of the Day: What’s Wrong With Your Shooting?”
As far as I’m concerned, nothing, HOWEVER, ask one hundred different “instructors” and you might get on hundred different answers…
Too expensive. Sad!
It would be cool if not for that stupid looking barrel. He could habe saved that $200 and bought some class instead.
My gun wants a new home baby
If this Gun had 12 round magazines available I might be interested. Putting finger rest on the bottom of a magazine is a stupid solution. Why not offer a factory +2 baseplate on the extra magazine it comes with? I know HK is supposed to be coming out with 13 round magazines, but I am not sure what these will look like. I am not fan of slip on grip sleeves because of their tendency to slip and make magazine insertion difficult or impossible.
You also made a comment about the 1913 rail and Glock pistols. The new Gen5 has a 1913 spec rail slot vs the special Glock rail slot on their previous pistols.