Blackstone45

When pulling the trigger at some significant speed, I get some wobble in the sight alignment. It's nothing serious, but would make a significant distance out to 25m It does seem to be caused by my middle finger moving slightly as well. Is it physically possible to train the trigger finger to move quickly without moving the middle finger?

Okay, thanks for the advice! I suppose pulling the trigger back to the frame as fast as possible without disturbing sight alignment would be a good way to practice trigger discipline?

I'm using a CZ 75 SP-01 Shadow (SA/DA with a thumb safety when the hammer is back)

When practicing dry fire, how do you deal with multiple target setups? Obviously when dry firing, you will only get one true trigger squeeze. So for multiple targets, do you just simulate the trigger squeeze with as much pressure as would normally take to break the shot?

You should definitely be able to feel a difference in the recoil. You may also feel a difference in that the trigger won't reset

You should dry fire at least as much as you live fire

I use a bit of blu tac (not sure if it's called the same in the states) to keep my glasses from slipping down my nose

Thanks for your help alma. I'll study my grip a little more and figure out the best place for tape

Where would you recommend putting any grip tape on? I have the blue aluminium thin grips too:

Then you may need to break out the grip tape for the weak hand grip. The aluminum grips leave much to be desired when it comes to having proper traction. Interesting because mine came with these fat black rubbery grips al503: I may consider that, but I want to avoid spending money to fix a problem if I have basic techniques to improve on first.

Thanks for the videos alma, happy that you showed your SP-01 Shadow, because that's the exact same gun I have.

My support hand is angled in a way that the thumb is pointing straight forwards. The heel of my support hand is basically covering the left side of the pistol grip. I've found that after one or two shots (of 9mm), my support hand has started to "come loose". Is this just a weak grip? This seems to happen even if I deathgrip my gun.

I've been having trouble with my recoil management, in that my gun will recoil upwards, and then stay there. This is with me not trying to "help" it back down. Am I taking the idea that the "front sight should return to the original position without any user input" a little too literally? I am not physically a very strong person, but I've been training my grip strength. I would say I grip the gun with about 50% of my total power.

Are you specifically talking about seeing the sights for your first shot from the draw?

The slide release on a Glock is close enough to the rear that I can use my shooting hand thumb, but on my CZ 75, I use my support hand thumb. I'll be re-establishing my firing grip anyway and it's a minor movement for my support hand.

Thank you very much Jshuberg, excellent post answered everything

Jshuberg, could you elaborate a bit more on the difference between focus and convergence? I always thought your eyes had to converge on a target in order to focus on it?

My best guess is that you are both converging and focusing your eyes on the front sight. That will lead to doubled targets. Instead try to converge on the target but focus on the front sight. There should only be one target. +1 Let your eye focus go to the target but your brain focus (awareness) is on the sight picture. Sounds hard to do, actually is easy after a while.If you want to try the tape thing, use some medical tape which is translucent so light gets through. I used to put a narrow strip across my glasses so I could "block" the left eye in the sighting position but go back to normal vision by tilting my head slightly up or down. You want light conductive tape so both eyes get the same amount of light or you can get headaches. This is exactly the issue I struggled with for a long time, with instructors and coaches hammering in the point that I had to focus on the front sight. In the end, I realised I had to "true focus" on the target so that I only see one target, but concentrate on seeing a perfect sight picture. This has become second nature to me now, and I actually see a pretty clear front sight anyway, despite focusing on the target. I guess I have good depth of field vision?

I don't have much time to practice this, so my method is pretty inefficient. I place my hand on the grip and slide upwards until I reach the beavertail, where I establish my full grip. But that's only because I haven't practiced the draw enough to have a consistent hand placement.

When I shoot both eyes open, I think I focus on the target, because seeing double of the target is too confusing. However I focus my attention on the front sight and alignment. Can anyone comment on this?

So strong grip strength doesn't necessarily equate to trying to "hold" the gun down during recoil, as long as it remains neutral?

Hi all, I've read through several threads regarding regaining sight alignment after recoil. The general consensus seems to be, there's no use fighting the recoil, and that if you have neutral tension, the front sight should fall back down into the rear sight notch. I have got the recoil going straight up, but it won't drop back down. There's no diagonal movement at all, I just end up with the gun pointed upwards. I then have to make a conscious effort to bring the front sight back down into alignment. Am I not canting the support hand enough? I'm trying to use the thumbs forward grip.