Glocks and "Limp Wristing"......A lil demo for new owners....VIDEO

[capp325]

Thanks so much. I had no limp wrist problems on my first shoot a month ago witht eh glock 9mm but I did with a SIG 1911 in .45. A few minor feed problems. The range guy said I might be limp wristing, but I didn't know what he meant. I thought it was just because I was using "dirty" range guns. I am now convinced that I had a loose grip with a relaxed wrist allowing the gun to move back to far too fast. Thanks so much for the post. You just made me a better shooter.

I sincerely doubt that your problems had anything to do with limp wristing. As you can see from the video below, a properly functioning 1911 would cycle just fine even when severely limp wristed:

http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m167/tharmsen/Video/?action=view&current=limp_wrist_test_2_0001.flv

 

[phatns2pid]

Yeah, if you can avoid limp wristing a Glock it's pretty doubtful that you would limp wrist anything else.

 

[EdGCNM]

IMHO, part of the problem understanding limp wristing is that it isn't always as simple an action as "not holding the gun tightly." There's a person involved that can do all kind of movements with their hand beyond just not holding the gun tightly, especially new shooters who snatch the trigger and flinch their hand at the same time. When I was trying to learn to shoot my .45 one-handed for bullseye, I had a session where I had a number of jams (FTE) because of limp wristing. What was happening was a kind of flinch in anticipation of the gun going off, but they took the form of a "catching" movement with my hand. This was enough to absorb the recoil of the slide just right and screw up the ejection cycle.

Sometimes a gun that would cycle fine with even the lightest of grips can be made to jam by adding in additional forces from the shooter's hand at the moment of firing.