Shooting low left

[Chris40]

Hi I am shooting low left most of the time. The only thing I can think of is that I am putting too much finger in the trigger guard. Or what else can it be? What kind of dry firing can I do to help me out of this?

Thanks Chris

[MarkS_A18138]

Chris, My wife (aikiddoGirl) has had that problem for a while. We have finally worked through it by moving more of her finger onto the trigger and also lots of Bill drills. She was slapping the trigger! I do know the biggest improvment was shooting the drills. I hope this helps a little.

[lynn jones]

hi chris40,

trigger jerk. you're probably anticipating the recoil. do a search to help in this matter.

lynn

[rhino]

Hi I am shooting low left most of the time. The only thing I can think of is that I am putting too much finger in the trigger guard. Or what else can it be? What kind of dry firing can I do to help me out of this?

    Thanks Chris

It's a classic problem with trigger control.

If it's related to finger placement, it's far more likely that you don't have your enough of your finger into the trigger guard, thus causing you to push to the left on the trigger when you try to press it to the rear.

Note that it really helps if your gun fits your hand properly. You may find that you shoot better if you modify the gun to accomodate shorter fingers or small hands. If you're shooting a 1911 of some kind, thin grip panels and a short trigger can help quite a bitl.

Some dry fire practice concentrating on pressing the trigger directly the rear will help. Make sure you keep your focus on the front sight.

In addition, you may be looking at the target for the hits and not at the front sight when the bullet leaves the gun. That almost always makes the shot go a bit too low, so even though the natural tendency is to look for the hits, keep your focus on the front sight.

[scooterj]

Chris, I'll let you try both my open and limited guns with moiified grips and short triggers.

[Chris40]

Thanks for the info I am going to the range Friday and try some of the tips. Scooter I will be there in the morning.

Thanks again

Chris

[Duane Thomas]

The classic answer to your problem is that you're doing what's called "crushing the gun," i.e. when your index finger curls to pull the trigger the other fingers curl, as well. Basically you're making a fist every time you pull the trigger. This of course, for a right handed shooter, pushes all your shots to the left, usually low left.

What you have here is a failure to disassociate your trigger finger from the rest of your hand. When the trigger finger moves, no other part of the master hand should move. Just the trigger finger, back and forth. Lots of dry fire can help. It also helps, with nothing in your hand, just to put your hand out, fingers curled as if you were holding a gun butt. Move your index finger back and forth as if pulling a trigger. Watch the other fingers. I'll bet you see them moving. Just keep doing that, over the weeks and months, until you can do it without the other fingers moving at all.

[kevin c]

It also helps, with nothing in your hand, just to put your hand out, fingers curled as if you were holding a gun butt. Move your index finger back and forth as if pulling a trigger.

I've been doing that recently while walking around, along with trying to keep my weak hand cammed forward to reinforce a better position for recoil recovery.

My MD colleagues are starting to ask me if I've had a neurologic evaluation to check out a possible minor stroke or Tourette's Syndrome.

[Chris40]

Ok just back from the range and I found out that I was not putting enough finger on the trigger. Now I need to get some dry firing in to fix this problem. Thanks for the help and hope to see who ever goes to Area 4

Thanks again

Chris