Best advice?
1.Beware advice given from websites, some is excellent, some is rubbish from people with no more experience than you, its definately a case of buyer beware!
2. Join a club with a good experienced coach.
Welcome to the sport,
Good shooting
Robin
Walther KK500 Alutec expert special - Barnard .223 "wilde" in a Walther KK500 Alutec stock, mmm...tasty!! - Keppeler 6 mmBR with Walther grip and wood! I may be a Walther-phile?
[CODE][/CODE]As a qualified pistol coach I agree; joining a club and getting some one to one coaching is the best option. On the web I can tell you what you should do but I see if you are doing it properly or what else you may be doing wrong.
Last edited by Bjacobs571; 09-10-2012 at 02:35 PM.
This is the first time i've come accross the advice to use the THIRD finger to apply most pressure on the pistol grip. Most say ALL fingers or just middle finger. I found THIRD finger worked best for me a long time ago, but put it down to how I used to hold cowboy guns when young (bad habit I thought). It just feels natural to me, (and does indeed free up the trigger finger) on picking up a pistol, to apply most pressure with third. All others touching but more relaxed. To get this verification from a shooting coach that I'm actually doing it right is brilliant. Made my day.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I learned it years ago, from a little book on 'pistol coaching' that used to be advertised and sold by the publishers of 'target gun'. Great little book, which sadly I've mislaid for years... but I must still have it somewhere...
Edit = And OMG - here it is! http://www.amazon.co.uk/TARGET-GUN-B.../dp/B001CK5RBE
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Thats three of us that do it then! ATB. Pete.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Me too!
I remembered from old days that the little finger shouldn't do anything while shooting with a pistol. The rest of the fingers are in use. Two weeks ago i borrowed an old pistol shooting book (well, finnish print of it) "Pistolenschiessen Band 1" by Klingner, Glock and Mertel. While some of the book is kind of obsolete now as it was written in 1982, most of the actual shooting technique stays the same.
So i read. Then test this different gripping in practice. Shot my season best score even while having a slight 'flu..
What do we learn from this.. Not much. I bet most of my good performance that day was due to being more focused on triggering the pistol right and gripping same way all the time.
Btw, what do you guys think is the correct shooting position?
I see local beginners being taught to stand sideways to the target so line from pistol to shoulder to shoulder is more or less straight. I just can not do that.. I learned to find the position by looking elsewhere and lifting the pistol to ~shooting position. Then move my feet so pistol points to the target.
You could be right about focus on trigger and consistent grip. I think these aspects are the most important anyway. As for stance, I reckon its a personal thing because we all have different body shapes and eyesight issues. I Don't like the side on approach because I seem to sway more like that. I prefer a 45 degree stance, and have to line up taking into account the sweet spot of vision through my multifocal lenses, which makes me turn my head slightly more to the right than if not wearing glasses. For two handed shooting, I stand straight on, as in the isosceles stance, with weight slightly forward on balls of feet. ATB. Pete.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.