Controlling Shot Anticipation
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Many shooters anticipate the sound and feeling of recoil just before they fire the gun, resulting in a “flinch” that adversely affects their precision. From this demonstration, you’ll learn a couple of ways to control your body’s natural flinch reaction when you fire your weapon. Flinching is common for all shooters, and can occur in three different ways: pushing, twitching, or pulling down. Our host explains the four stages of a trigger pull, and gives you exercises you can use to slow down when you fire your weapon. With these techniques, you will be able to calm your mind so that you can better control your trigger pull and reduce flinching.
Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Now I'd like to discuss trigger control, the second 1/2 of the equation. Aiming is lining the bore up with the target, but the more difficult part for most people is causing the firearm to discharge without disturbing that alignment. I already talked about for a right-handed shooter, what is more or less natural is to flinch in anticipation of noise and, or recoil. Usually one of three things happens. Person either pushes with the hand and, or body, they will twitch the wrist to the side or grab with the hand, as if milking a cow, straight down. So anything for a right-handed shooter, low and, or left, it's trigger control. For a left-handed shooter, low and, or to the right is trigger control. That's the issue for most people. So I'm gonna give you some tools to work on that critical part of the marksmanship equation. You've gotta learn to do it slowly and get your mind calm while the gun discharges, as calm as possible. This is all mental, it starts in the mind. Your trigger has five basic attributes with either a single action pistol or a cock double action, or a Glock or XD type pistol. It's got the take-up or slack at the beginning of the trigger pull, that's that light weight at the beginning of the trigger pull. Then it's got a heavier weight which releases the hammer or striker. It's got the position where the trigger's all the way to the rear. Then there's a point at which the trigger will reset and the pistol can be fired again. Finally, there's the point with the trigger all the way forward. You need to know your trigger, and a very good place to start is slowly going through each of these attributes and saying them to yourself inside your head. Forward, slack, press, hold to the rear, reset, forward, slack, press, hold to the rear, reset. I'm gonna demonstrate that. So the trigger's forward, slack, press, hold to the rear, reset, forward, slack, press, hold to the rear, reset, forward, slack, press, hold to the rear, reset. Go through that nice and slowly. You need to be very, very familiar with your trigger action, and the goal is to have the trigger finger move completely independent of the rest of the body. The gun will not fire until you reset the trigger. So it's important that the trigger come forward past that point. However, what will probably help your shooting more than concentrating on the reset point is getting the slack out. You can actually use your breathing to calm your mind and improve your trigger control. So I'm gonna demonstrate this here. I'm gonna breathe in and get the slack out, breathe out and press. Breathe in, slack out, out and press. Reset, breathe in, slack out, out and press. In, slack out, out and press. One final thing you can do is get a slow rhythm going. Slack, press, reset, slack, press, reset. Let me demonstrate that. Slack, press, reset, slack, press, reset, slack, press, reset, slack, press, reset. Let the rhythm pull the trigger, and that way you get your mind out of the equation. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.
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At what point during training do we want to teach "press, reset, press" without allowing for forward slack and then rearward slack before press. I am seeing this introduced at beginning classes! I see this as a safety issue when taught too early in training! Also how do we reconcile the fact that many top shooters always allow all the slack out before each press? Is this a mechanical function of the way their firearm is set up? John, Retired LEO, POST Certified Firearms Instructor, Certified NRA Instructor
The only thing I would add is to hand the thumbs up and out of the way. relaxed hands and fingers no need to squeeze the crap out of the gun
This guy teaches the reset drill strange, he does it much harder that it has to be. Instead of slack press, reset, slack, press. Just go slack, press, reset (and stop at the reset point), without going fully forward (most firearms you can hear/feel the reseting point, you do not have to go fully forward at all). He was using a Glock so I know he can feel and hear the action restting! Why go fully forward on the trigger, this takes more time in which reduces follow up shots timing. The one thing he did not explain is trigger restting can and will vary on different makes of firearms. Telling people to take up slack on thier firearm may cause an AD/ND. ÂÂ
... that is certainly a problem I have ... I will try the suggested exercises. thanks.