If it weren't impractically expensive to produce, there might be a market for a dummy Glock/MP/XD type practice pistol with a resetting trigger.
In the meantime, it's back to the reloading bench for me.
Stuart
Mastering the Glock Trigger
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If it weren't impractically expensive to produce, there might be a market for a dummy Glock/MP/XD type practice pistol with a resetting trigger.
In the meantime, it's back to the reloading bench for me.
Stuart
If it weren't impractically expensive to produce, there might be a market for a dummy Glock/MP/XD type practice pistol with a resetting trigger.
In the meantime, it's back to the reloading bench for me.
You mean like the SIRT pistol?
Kampfhamster
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Excellent post.
Mastering the fundamentals is vital when shooting, also accuracy is not the goal, but the consequence of mastering the fundamentals of stance, grip, breathing, aiming and triggerpull.
Also a good exercise to get rid of flinching is following:
First of all, you need a buddy as a coach.
-Unload pistol.
-Assume shooting position.
-dryfire, hold the trigger in its rearmost position. The coach watches if the front flinches.
-now the coach racks the slide, you might want to place your weak hand on the shooters shoulder to balance him.
-release the trigger until the trigger resets. DO NOT RELEASE ANY FURTHER!
-dryfire again.
-repeat
While this exercise sounds very stupid, its very effective to get rid of bad habbits. At the school i'm teaching every once in a while we use it often during training to finetune already trained shooters.
There are other exercises to correct the other fundamentals like stance, grip and aim. If there's any interest I'll try to explain them
Mastering the fundamentals is vital when shooting, also accuracy is not the goal, but the consequence of mastering the fundamentals of stance, grip, breathing, aiming and triggerpull.
Also a good exercise to get rid of flinching is following:
First of all, you need a buddy as a coach.
-Unload pistol.
-Assume shooting position.
-dryfire, hold the trigger in its rearmost position. The coach watches if the front flinches.
-now the coach racks the slide, you might want to place your weak hand on the shooters shoulder to balance him.
-release the trigger until the trigger resets. DO NOT RELEASE ANY FURTHER!
-dryfire again.
-repeat
While this exercise sounds very stupid, its very effective to get rid of bad habbits. At the school i'm teaching every once in a while we use it often during training to finetune already trained shooters.
There are other exercises to correct the other fundamentals like stance, grip and aim. If there's any interest I'll try to explain them
I was gone for five days interior camping and obviously couldn't bring my pistol (huzzah for feeble Canada!). Last night I went through this drill again, pretending to be a new shooter. Worked perfectly. Made me happy that I didn't post something that was going to screw up noobies!
I really think the trick with the Glock triggers in particular is dragging your index finger along the bottom of the trigger guard and getting the rest of your fingers up where they belong and not down and away from the trigger guard.
I really think the trick with the Glock triggers in particular is dragging your index finger along the bottom of the trigger guard and getting the rest of your fingers up where they belong and not down and away from the trigger guard.
If it weren't impractically expensive to produce, there might be a market for a dummy Glock/MP/XD type practice pistol with a resetting trigger.
In the meantime, it's back to the reloading bench for me.
Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a resetting trigger?
Technically, you can depress the trigger, rack the slide and back off the trigger until reset before you go through your next dry fire. OK to do a couple times to let things sink in, but it would be bad for muscle memory to do this everytime.
blackacres
Regular
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- Mount Hope, Ontario
IMHO the best thing to do is get rid of the "Ugly" stock Glock trigger!
The triggers in my Sigs, H&Ks in SA (P7M8 is another story!) make the stock trigger pull/release of the Glock feel horrible. My 1911s and DE can't be compared to most of my other pistols as they break sooo clean!
However, I recently installed a Vanek trigger and spring group in my G17...............................now we're getting somewhere! Puts the stock trigger assembly to same.
Although, all of the comments/suggestions made by Cancer are great things to keep in mind. Great post.
The triggers in my Sigs, H&Ks in SA (P7M8 is another story!) make the stock trigger pull/release of the Glock feel horrible. My 1911s and DE can't be compared to most of my other pistols as they break sooo clean!
However, I recently installed a Vanek trigger and spring group in my G17...............................now we're getting somewhere! Puts the stock trigger assembly to same.
Although, all of the comments/suggestions made by Cancer are great things to keep in mind. Great post.
I think I would! I shoot my g17 maybe twice a month so swapping it twice a month after I'm cleaning it isn't a big deal.
I'm a reasonably decent shot with my Sigs but my Glock 22 had me thinking the armourer installed my sights crooked. I'm glad I'm not the only one pulling left. I'm looking forward to hitting the range with it again to see how it performs! Thanks for the great post.
It may have been said already but here goes anyway.
A good way to test to see if your dry firing is working is to balance a spent casing on the top of the slide just behind the front sight. Then carefully put your support hand back into place and pull the trigger. If the casing moves at all it should be DIRECTLY back with no side displacement. If see the casing step slightly to the right it means you're pulling your "shots" left.
Why it shows up is that the pressures can all cancel out until the trigger breaks. When the trigger breaks if you are holding opposing pressure between your trigger finger and the rest of your grip the gun will respond when the trigger break unbalances the pressures. When you manage to lear to place and pull with your trigger finger correctly it will not put any side to side pressure into your grip and the gun will not jump to the side when the pressures become unbalanced when the trigger breaks.
Another good drill is to put a piece of paper on the wall and draw a fine vertical line down the center. Then put a regular pencil into the barrel so the eraser end is resting against the back of the slide so the firing pin can strike the eraser. To work this practice you stand with the end of the pencil about an inch away from the paper. Sight on the vertical line and squeeze the trigger. When it breaks and the firing pin shoots the pencil ahead it should hit on the line. If it's over to either side then you either didn't get the line vertical or you pushed the gun to the side with your trigger finger or you actually flinched. For bigger bore guns you can make up a better practice pencil by wrapping it with "spacers" of masking tape to bulk out the pencil so it centers the pencil in the bore but is still free floating enough to jump ahead.
A good way to test to see if your dry firing is working is to balance a spent casing on the top of the slide just behind the front sight. Then carefully put your support hand back into place and pull the trigger. If the casing moves at all it should be DIRECTLY back with no side displacement. If see the casing step slightly to the right it means you're pulling your "shots" left.
Why it shows up is that the pressures can all cancel out until the trigger breaks. When the trigger breaks if you are holding opposing pressure between your trigger finger and the rest of your grip the gun will respond when the trigger break unbalances the pressures. When you manage to lear to place and pull with your trigger finger correctly it will not put any side to side pressure into your grip and the gun will not jump to the side when the pressures become unbalanced when the trigger breaks.
Another good drill is to put a piece of paper on the wall and draw a fine vertical line down the center. Then put a regular pencil into the barrel so the eraser end is resting against the back of the slide so the firing pin can strike the eraser. To work this practice you stand with the end of the pencil about an inch away from the paper. Sight on the vertical line and squeeze the trigger. When it breaks and the firing pin shoots the pencil ahead it should hit on the line. If it's over to either side then you either didn't get the line vertical or you pushed the gun to the side with your trigger finger or you actually flinched. For bigger bore guns you can make up a better practice pencil by wrapping it with "spacers" of masking tape to bulk out the pencil so it centers the pencil in the bore but is still free floating enough to jump ahead.
