Help. My Aching Trigger Finger

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I have a Shadow 1 that has been tearing up my tigger finger as of late. It never bothered me during the first thousand rounds. It only began during my black badge course(a couple of months ago) and during my first level II match a few weeks ago. It also tore the skin off my last practice session.
What's happening is I form a blister on the bottom/side of my trigger finger pad. All three times I have continued shooting until the skin rips off, leaving raw exposed skin. Painful and distracting.

So, what's going on? Has my finger placement changed? Does the trigger just not match up with my biomechanics?
Any trigger options for swapping out the factory curved trigger?
 
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That is very weird! I’ve not seen this with Shadow shooters. Or any other gun.

The only thing I can think of...and I’m grasping at an idea, is that you’re milking your grip and possibly slapping your trigger?

Check that you have a firm and proper grip first and work on shooting to trigger reset. I actually can’t think why slapping your trigger can cause a raw spot on your finger but it’s the only thing that comes to mind.

Can you post a picture of your grip and finger placement on your trigger?
 
Is it a smooth trigger? I could see a sharp maybe doing this, though I have sharp trigger that never bothered me on my target guns.
Only time I had problems was shooting hot 375m in a snub nose revolver with small grips, trigger guard would come back into trigger finger.
 
There is a little screw on the face of the trigger. Has that backed out too much and is it scraping your finger?
 
Thanks everyone. Trigger face screw is fine. No skin condition.
Still alive, I will check my grip and be co conscious of trigger slap.

I found d the following on a forum. Guy shoots a 75b. Guess I'm not the only one:

"It hurts like hell to shoot it. I have never had this issue before with any other gun I have ever shot. Today I put 100 rounds through it and had a freaking blister on my trigger finger when I was done. Is there an easy remedy for this problem or should I just embrace my masochistic side and go with it?"

Forum advice blamed the recurve trigger and suggested swapping it out for an 85 combat trigger.
Thanks for the replies. Keep the advice e coming. I'll try anything. I'm already missing a match because of this issue.
 
Is the trigger stock...my and a couple of mates have had our smoothed out be a Smith..pull on mine is a hair under 3# ..mates is more like 2#...surprised he doesn’t get Double taps with that when you race..
 
I had the stock trigger for the first 10k rounds. No problem, aside from that little screw when it backed out a bit. I have the 85C trigger for the last ~20k rounds.

When you release the trigger, are you letting it out all the way, or are you riding the reset, (only letting it go back as far as the ‘click’)?
 
That's....odd. Never seen that happen, at least with so few rounds. Closest I came was on a three day pistol/carbine/shotgun course I took, and I went through 800 rds of 9mm (Sig P226), about 700 rds of 5.56 and 250 of 12g slug/buck/shot..I ended up with a blood blister on the top of my trigger finger. After that I decided to wear gloves for future courses. No advice for your issue, the only thing that comes to mind is maybe the trigger has a sharp edge to it. My GP100 was like that when I got it, not comfortable shooting magnum loads, but I took a diamond file to it and smoothed the whole thing out nicely and no problems since.
 
I've experienced similar issues with CZs and HK USPs. Long hands and fingers. Bandaid strips and some moisturizing cream to the spot help. Installing a straight(er) trigger and a lighter spring help as well.
 
vp6111 said:
I've experienced similar issues with CZs and HK USPs. Long hands and fingers. Bandaid strips and some moisturizing cream to the spot help. Installing a straight(er) trigger and a lighter spring help as well.
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Exactly like my hands, large with long fingers. So perhaps the physiology of my hands/fingers is playing a big part.
 
I have that problem with a few guns HK's in particular. The more curve on the trigger coupled with a smallish trigger guard gives problems after just a few rounds. Tried gloves, but with my paws I can barely get my finger in the trigger guard
 
dogzilla said:
I have that problem with a few guns HK's in particular. The more curve on the trigger coupled with a smallish trigger guard gives problems after just a few rounds. Tried gloves, but with my paws I can barely get my finger in the trigger guard
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Ditto. My Sig 226 short reach trigger used to pinch my finger.
 
Shoot through the pain, let the blister bust and turn to a callus. No more problems. Same as using a shovel the first time...once the blisters bust you develop calluses and you don't get blisters anymore.
 
I found the curve too aggressive, with the tip to sharp. When I would transition from a longer flatter trigger, it would buck into my finger. If you love the gun, switch to a longer, flatter trigger, and you'll be free.

Also, I may have not read your actual issue. Sorry. Ha
 
What's happening is I form a blister on the bottom/side of my trigger finger pad.
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From reading the first post describing where the blister is forming it sounds like you are riding the trigger really low and it's pinching your finger between the trigger and guard on the return. Does that tie in with where the blister is forming?

I wear large or extra large size gloves depending on the fit. But mostly XL's. So my hands and fingers are not small either. I find that my trigger finger fits nicely in the stock curvature. And with a good high placement of my hands to let the gun sit really low in my grip my trigger finger sits neatly on the trigger's curvature. Perhaps your grip method is slipping a tad and allowing your trigger finger to ride lower on the trigger and promote dragging and pinching on the guard? If this is what is happening then fitting a new flatter trigger won't help. It's more about your finger position on the trigger. Holding low on any trigger will still promote pinching your finger between the trigger and the frame due to the trigger on the Shadow (and all CZ's) being a top swing style.

One of the better videos on grip that really does a good job of showing and explaining the support hand wrist cant to get the gun really deep in our grips is Travis Haley on Gun Grip. Perhaps try your usual grip first and do a little dry firing and see if you're tending to let your trigger finger get too low. Then look at the video and work your grip method to really get the gun deep down into your strong hand. The web of your hand should be stretched fairly tight into the upper "beavertail" curve. And adding your support hand on the other side should not tend to push your strong hand grip out of position and down the grip area at all. That'll keep your trigger finger up higher on the trigger where it can get a different blister from the burrs around the travel screw hole or where the trigger goes up into the slot and the scissor action gives you a different sort of blister :d If/when you get a blister from those higher up features find the happy middle ground in between.
 
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