Everyone wants to be fast. Okay, I agree with the need for speed. However, no matter how fast you squeeze the trigger, you are not going to get followup hits if you can’t manage recoil.
-Accuracy is Most Important
-Speed is important, but not at the expense of Accuracy
-Slow is smooth, and smooth is Fast
– Until you get good… then Slow is Slow, and Fast is Fast
-You can’t Miss fast enough to Win
-Most important shot in a gun fight is often the FIRST shot
These are all pearls of wisdom that instructors throw out there to make you shoot better and/or faster. However, what really makes you faster is PROPER TECHNIQUE and lots and lots of practice. You are doing the practice, either dry firing or with live ammo; you just need to tune up your technique.
We tell new students not to grip the pistol too tight, because it tends to make it harder to squeeze the trigger finger smoothly. However, this is because most people have not isolated their trigger finger; conditioning it to work by itself. We are all so used to always grabbing things with our whole hand that all our fingers are used to always working together. We can fix that. However, it takes lots of practice. If you are willing to put in the time, you can retrain your hand. Then, you can crush the gun, managing recoil, while still isolating that smooth trigger pull.
Like a “Golf Pro” fixing your swing, I can’t fix your grip without watching your grip and presentation. So, getting out there and having an instructor watch you will always be the best way to find improvement in your game. However, if you can’t make it to one of our classes, I hope you can get a little bit of improvement out of this video.
Master your firm grip, but also master isolating that trigger finger to move by itself. It must be fast, but more importantly it must be Accurate.
Strength & Honor, TR.
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I've never heard of a dry fire magazine. Thanks!
Why is it when I kinda have both hands firm but not tight by any means makes me way more accurate? My support hand is somewhat loose and I’m pin point accurate.. weird man
Great info 35 year LEO retired great instruction like the hand grip tool
I’m a new shooter, and I can’t hit a damn thing. Going to utilize these tips next time
Karls New York accent really comes through here.
Great info!!! Thanks so much!!!
TR TEAM, I'm a novice pistol shooter and the quarter with the gripper is awesome. I never seen such an exercise. I will rep the hell out of it. Again Thanks so much.
Nice i needed this video
I appreciate Honest Outlaw’s long lost brother’s commitment to the dry firing exercise throughout the entire video.
I hate my thumb rest on the sig 226. I always hit the mag release by accident.
Damn Karl you did it again good ol keep it simple Military knowledge delivered. Great vid brother.
I have a decent grip. I was squeezing almost twice my weight until about ten years ago. I gained some weight and lost some strength. I was squeezing 250 pounds on the bathroom scales, now I can barely squeeze 210 pounds. (I weigh 180 now, I used to weigh 165).
Great content as always
Thanks Carl!
Due to your video I was now at home working in home office and on the phone with someone, making trigger finger movements.
My wife: “What the fuck are you doing?”
Where to get a dry fire mag like that, I got up to get another beer so….probably missed it whrn you said it Karl! Cheers lads!
I’d still be eating crayons if it weren’t for Tactical Rifleman, hope to repay the debt one day, don’t be surprised if I show up on your class rosters some day. 🦥❤️
After decades of shooting, the shooters arthritis is setting in. It sucks to get old.
Can't stand this ONE WAY FITS ALL crap. I grip the way that FEELS BEST! And the other bulkshit I can't stand is the Trigger FINGER PAD shooting method. ITS UN-NATURAL and your finger moves internally. I use the JOINT in my finger as the Squeeze Point. Don't believe me? Dry fire with your finger pad and then your finger joint where it bends. You will SEE the tendons and muscles in your finger hardly move using the Joint, and you will see all sorts of movement using the pad of your finger. When block came out with the striker fire is really when the Finger Pad method was introduced as a so called Better way. Yet there is no data showing anywhere it has ever been more effective than using your finger joint!!! PAD FINGER is bulk hit!
05:30 – hand muscle training while driving? Dude, a real man drives a manual.
Great video. One question. Where do I find the dry fire magazine. And can I get one for a sig p320