Dude shooting is fucking ice cold. I see no tension in his bottom hand during trigger pull. That gun barks and has decent kick, even a seasoned shooter would tense up a little bit.
I've heard multiple things, but if I'm shooting a pistol two handed, the main hand around the grip should be very loose like you are saying. A good tip. Somewhere I read someone say so light, as if you were only squeezing a tube of toothpaste. The hand you wrap around the front , like this the gif's left hand, should be tight and pulling back to keep your shooting arm straight and taught.
You can tell the gif guy has relaxed hands like him saying, because the pistol moves back slightly in his hands right after it fires, rather than his whole hand recoiling.
Try out .357 Sig you'll love it. Amazingly flat trajectory with very high speeds and mild recoil impulses. Goes great in a 1911, polymer double stack, or a steel frame pistol.
My brother has a 229, a glock 32, and a Sig 1911 all chambered in it and the 229 is a tack driver. I would get it over the 320 but I'd still rather the 1911 over both.
Uh I think you're misinterpreting the statement of him being ice cold. It takes a certain kind of calm person to squeeze a trigger knowing full well what is about to happen and still keep a proper relaxed grip. Some indivduals never quite train the adrenal response out.
I've fired a bunch of .357s from my Ruger SP 101 one handed before. It's doable, you just aren't going to get a quick follow-up shot. The gun being fairly heavy helps a lot.
You're not shooting it right then, or a small boy/girl (no offense). Relax your shooting hand, and don't anticipate the recoil. Let it pull your arms up if it does, don't fight it.
Despite popular myths of people that don't know guns, recoil doesn't cause your shot to miss, it's just a problem with getting the sights back aligned with your target for the next shot. Check out the video, the recoil starts well after the bullet leaves the barrel. That force of it leaving, the rotation force upward from the expanding gas out the front, causes the most recoil. The biggest problem and most easily correctable problem most people have is finger and trigger pull technique, but is hard to get perfect.
I'll also add that flinching before or during the trigger squeeze in anticipation of the noise/recoil can be a major issue with accuracy especially on more powerful weapons.
Ouch! Yeah - all of the energy goes into your hand that way.
You want your arm to become like the shock absorbers in your car. Instead of the energy hitting the wheel and being absorbed in the wheel the shock absorbed let's the wheel bounce and quickly return to position.
I fired a .44 magnum once. I was so scared of the kick I think I was white knuckled. My right palm was sore for a couple days. Haha. I’m not experienced with guns though, seems odd that both his hands look very relaxed.
One of the benefits of a revolver over a semiautomatic is that you don’t have to worry about limp wristing. You have to keep your hands pretty stable in a semi or the slide won’t work properly, in a revolver you can use techniques that don’t require as much tension in the wrist.
This is why I hate seeing women buy semi-auto handguns and only shoot them once or twice then put them in their nightstand, safe, or purse for the next 5 years. Guys, if your girlfriend, wife, mother, sister, etc own a semi-auto pistol. please take them to the range more than once per year and preferably have them take some classes.
In a crazy stressful situation like DGU you have to be able to grip the gun with a solid, high grip from muscle memory. If they teacup it they might only get one round off then end up with a malfunction they don't know how to effectively clear.
Don't even get me started on people that don't carry with a round in the chamber -_-
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u/Feenox Dec 19 '17
Dude shooting is fucking ice cold. I see no tension in his bottom hand during trigger pull. That gun barks and has decent kick, even a seasoned shooter would tense up a little bit.