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How to buy laser scanners eBook. Dry practice is a very effective way to refine your trigger manipulations skills. Jerking the trigger happens when a shooter sloppily engages the trigger. The pad of the finger may be placed incorrectly and the trigger is not pressed smoothly to the rear. The trigger needs to be pressed smoothly and consistently every time while learning how to shoot accurately. Keep pressing the trigger until it reaches its intended stopping point then release the trigger to its reset point.
Do not let the trigger go all the way forward unless you do not need to take another shot. If your shots are scattered on the target you might be anticipating the shot or recoil. Have a friend or instructor load one dummy round or empty shell casing randomly into your magazine along with live rounds.
With the prepared magazine in your gun shoot at your target. At some point your gun will want a new cartridge but it will get either the dummy round or the empty casing. When the dummy round loads into the chamber what usually happens is the gun jerks downward because you are anticipating the shot and trying to force the gun to shoot. If you notice this problem you will need to slow down your trigger press and pay attention to engaging the trigger with a slow, even press.
When we recognize this issue with our students our lead instructor prepares a magazine as described above. He then uses his cell phone camera to record the student taking a shot.
The downward motion of the anticipated shot is easily seen on the video. When the trigger is back as far as it can go then you begin to release it until you hear or feel a click. That click is the sound or feel of the trigger resetting. The trigger reset happens as follows. When the handgun is fired the trigger remains depressed to the rear as a round leaves the gun and the slide cycles.
When the click is heard or felt the trigger is once again pressed to the rear and the next shot breaks. Developing the skill to recognize the reset point reduces shooting error because there is less chance to introduce error to your trigger press. You must learn where the reset point is on your gun. The advice we have received over our many years of training is that the pad of the trigger finger should be placed properly on the trigger.
If the trigger is too far forward on the pad—almost at the tip—your hits will be to the left of the target. If the trigger is closer to the first joint of the trigger finger then your hits will be to the right of the target.
You can increase your shooting accuracy by making adjustments to where the trigger rests on the pad of your trigger finger. Interestingly, there are some shooters who place the trigger on the first knuckle joint and shoot accurately.
However, we advise new shooters to use the pad of their trigger finger. The trigger-reset method described above requires fine motor skills. Fine motor skills deteriorate under stress. The testimony of people involved in lethal encounters validate this.
These people, who were often trained to use the trigger reset method, admit that they did not employ the trigger resetting technique in a gun fight. Rolling the trigger is considered a flawed technique by some firearms instructors.
That's why it's important to practice trigger reset — so your body is ready to respond at a moment's notice. Should multiple shots be necessary in a defensive encounter - and they may be - the quick follow-up shots and tight groups will part of muscle memory.
This gives you a firepower advantage over an attacker. He resides in the great Inland Northwest, with his wife and child. His varied interests and hobbies include camping, fishing, hunting, and spending time at the gun range as often as possible.
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