3 PISTOL SHOOTING TIPS

3 PISTOL SHOOTING TIPS

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STANCE

Feet are shoulder-width apart. For example,  I'm a right-handed shooter, so my left foot is positioned in front of my right foot. My knees are slightly bent. I'm in an aggressive position. This position is very conducive for when I transition between targets, and if I need to move quickly, it also provides me with a stable platform to help with recoil management. Positions I never want to be in are, I never want to be flatfooted and my feet in line with each other, and I never want my weight in the heels or upright cause when I start shooting I can lose balance.

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GRIP

60% strength in your dominant hand, 40% strength in your non-dominant hand. I never want to be death gripping this thing. I don't ever want to be squeezing this thing so hard where I'm white-knuckling and the weapon starts to shake. I want my grip high up on this beaver tail. I don't want to see any space between my hand and the beaver tail.

Non-dominant hand comes underneath the trigger guard. The first touch point is second knuckle of non-dominant hand, underneath the trigger guard. Non-dominant hand then rolls into position on the grip, laying flush up against dominant hand, thumbs are stack on top of each other and pointed down the slide of the barrel. This hand positioning will give you a natural point of aim. I NEVER want to cross my thumbs or have any space between my dominant hand and non-dominant hand on the grip of the pistol, every point needs to be flush and stacked correctly.

TRIGGER CONTROL

If you don’t properly manage the trigger, you miss the target its that simple.

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When you use proper sight picture and sight alignment, there shouldn’t be an excuse to miss the target right? WRONG! Although if you do all those things properly but fail to manage the trigger don’t’ expect to hit where you are aiming. Trigger management is simple enough. Press the trigger (do not jerk, slap, pull with entire dominant hand – it needs to be a smooth pull with ONLY thE trigger finger).

Prepping, breaking, and resetting the trigger are so damn IMPORTANT. A good cadence to have is to:

1.       Fire

2.       Let off trigger, allow to reset, then immediately take the slack out again to prepare for next shot.

3.       Fire again with equal amount of pressure and release as the first shot taken.

When you are first starting to develop fundamentals I don’t care how fast you can shoot, I care how accurate you are. Speed will be the bi-product of a solid foundation of the fundamentals. Remember no matter how quickly you fire, your cadence will be determined by how you manage recoil and how quickly you realign your sights back on target.

BE AGGRESSIVE WHEN YOU SHOOT!

All right everyone, I hope you enjoyed those tips. Try those things out every time you go the range, especially if you're a new shooter or if you're advanced, these are all fundamentals that you need to practice every single day.

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Carbine Fundamentals: Recoil Management

CARBINE FUNDAMENTALS: RECOIL MANAGEMENT

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What's going on, everyone? Travis Kennedy here, owner of Kennedy Defensive Shooting. Today I'm going to talk about carbine fundamentals. Specifically recoil management. Let's do this.

Two points of performance I want to discuss in this blog post and those are: Grip and shouldering the rifle. I teach a specific way to grip the rifle, specifically how to place your fingers along the finger grooves that are designed on the grip. Yeah, you could use those and align your fingers along those grooves, but I align my ring finger above the first groove on the rifle grip. My finger is at the top of the grip knob on the grip of my rifle. This gives me a high seat up on this beaver tail on my rifle grip. Now that I have a nice strong grip on this thing. I got more reach with my trigger finger and have more reach with my thumb to manipulate the safety.

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When I shoulder the rifle, there's a couple of things I see that people do wrong. They either ... It's too high or maybe it's just too low. You want the entire butt stock seated within the shoulder. That gives you strength behind that rifle, especially when we start rapid firing. If you're working with body armor kit, it's more of a pain, but it can be done. The buttstock needs to get seated directly into that shoulder pocket and my left pulling that rifle back into my shoulder. I utilize the Magpul finger grip. I have a relaxed grip with my right hand to pull the trigger. When I go to present and I go to fire, after I fire, my left hand is pulling my muzzle back on target that helps with my recoil, get my sites aligned back on target to re-engage.

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Another point of performance is stance. Stance a little more exaggerated than when I'm just shooting my pistol. I lean forward with more of an aggressive posture. My left leg is in front a little bit more when I shoot my rifle, because I want to be in more of an aggressive stance, and really lean into this thing.

Remember, we don't want the butt stock high and we don’t want it low. Remember to keep the firing arm elbow down when we shoot. We don't want this elbow flared out. And when I go to bring my rifle up to my eyes to acquire my sights, I bring the gun up and I just dip my head slightly to get that cheek weld to acquire my sights. That's my touch point. Touch point is my cheek. As the rifle comes up, I drop my head, gun is put on fire, finger goes on trigger, I acquire my sights, and I engage. Same thing with high ready, punch out, touch points is my cheek, jam the rifle back into my shoulder then engage.

Try those points of performance out and make sure that butt stock's right in that shoulder. If you guys like this post, please share and comment below. If there is a certain topic you would like me to talk about put it below.

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-TK