There have been a few threads lately about helping shooters hit their targets.
Some good science fiction stuff, too. About how feet and/or unicorns are somehow connected to your trigger finger.
For your viewing pleasure, I'm posting some of the contemporary theories on how to diagnose your shooting problem in convenient visual form.
(Later, I'll explain how it's all horse-puckey that's regurgitated from one mediocre firearms instructor to the next. And explains why many students just stay in one frustrated plateau for their entire life.)
This one has my personal favorite advice ever: When shooting low horizontal left, apply more pressure with YOUR PINKY! Your pinky????
That's 100% fantastic, stuffed with wonderful, and smothered in awesome right there.
Let me break it down for you:
1. Mastering sight alignment:
----Go to your kitchen, grab three cups and put them in a straight line on your countertop. Put equal space between them. Bam. You've mastered sight alignment. You could spend the rest of your life trying to get those cups more perfectly aligned but I think they're probably good enough the first time.
2. Mastering trigger pull:
----With your unloaded gun, use the above technique you learned with the cups and apply them to the 2 things on the rear and the 1 thing on the front of your slide. They should all be aligned. Put the 1 thing (we'll just call it, oh, "Front Sight" for the sake of this thread) in the front aimed in on a small target, say a doorknob, and pull the trigger to the rear. Did the front sight stay on the doorknob through the whole pull and is it still on the doorknob?
Yes? Great, you've mastered trigger pull.
3. EVERYTHING ELSE IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO WHERE YOUR ROUNDS ARE GOING!!!!
(Example, did your grip matter when you aimed at the doorknob? What about your stance when lining up the cups? Did you find you could line up the cups better if you got in some specific foot position?)
4. You aren't hitting where you're aiming because once you move past Step 2 and put REAL bullets, that create REAL noise and REAL movement in your gun, you start flinching due to PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS ONLY!!!!!
5. Once you recognize it's a psychological problem, you can dismiss the rabbit trails of stance, drooping head, pinky squeezing, thumbing, unicorns, candy corn, corn pops, cornucopias, cornhole games, whatever, and start focusing on the real AND ONLY problem: RECOIL ANTICIPATION.
For those of you that have struggled through the conventional nonsense that passes for firearms training, and come out the other side realizing that you wasted time on a 60/40 grip instead of recoil anticipation, and now you're shooting better than ever because you've actually identified the problem, I salute you.
Spread the good word.
To the rest of you, get to work!
Some good science fiction stuff, too. About how feet and/or unicorns are somehow connected to your trigger finger.
For your viewing pleasure, I'm posting some of the contemporary theories on how to diagnose your shooting problem in convenient visual form.
(Later, I'll explain how it's all horse-puckey that's regurgitated from one mediocre firearms instructor to the next. And explains why many students just stay in one frustrated plateau for their entire life.)
This one has my personal favorite advice ever: When shooting low horizontal left, apply more pressure with YOUR PINKY! Your pinky????
That's 100% fantastic, stuffed with wonderful, and smothered in awesome right there.
Let me break it down for you:
1. Mastering sight alignment:
----Go to your kitchen, grab three cups and put them in a straight line on your countertop. Put equal space between them. Bam. You've mastered sight alignment. You could spend the rest of your life trying to get those cups more perfectly aligned but I think they're probably good enough the first time.
2. Mastering trigger pull:
----With your unloaded gun, use the above technique you learned with the cups and apply them to the 2 things on the rear and the 1 thing on the front of your slide. They should all be aligned. Put the 1 thing (we'll just call it, oh, "Front Sight" for the sake of this thread) in the front aimed in on a small target, say a doorknob, and pull the trigger to the rear. Did the front sight stay on the doorknob through the whole pull and is it still on the doorknob?
Yes? Great, you've mastered trigger pull.
3. EVERYTHING ELSE IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO WHERE YOUR ROUNDS ARE GOING!!!!
(Example, did your grip matter when you aimed at the doorknob? What about your stance when lining up the cups? Did you find you could line up the cups better if you got in some specific foot position?)
4. You aren't hitting where you're aiming because once you move past Step 2 and put REAL bullets, that create REAL noise and REAL movement in your gun, you start flinching due to PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS ONLY!!!!!
5. Once you recognize it's a psychological problem, you can dismiss the rabbit trails of stance, drooping head, pinky squeezing, thumbing, unicorns, candy corn, corn pops, cornucopias, cornhole games, whatever, and start focusing on the real AND ONLY problem: RECOIL ANTICIPATION.
For those of you that have struggled through the conventional nonsense that passes for firearms training, and come out the other side realizing that you wasted time on a 60/40 grip instead of recoil anticipation, and now you're shooting better than ever because you've actually identified the problem, I salute you.
Spread the good word.To the rest of you, get to work!
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I am making that into a bumper sticker, no I am not joking.
