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A few years back we had some new friends visit and do some shooting with us.
So we are down at the range and they do a little shooting and then being polite, step back a bit and ask if we want to shoot. I glanced at my wife and gave her a nod. We were shooting rifles at just 70 yards standing. She went forward of the rest of us and started to shoot-
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
By the time my friend heard the third "click" he slowly starting walking around the side to get a better view of what she was doing. The wife finishes up. My friend doesn't ask. And they start shooting again. After a while he mentions getting a few "pointers" from me, etc.
Like most new shooters, our new friends were jumping off the trigger immediately after the shot broke. Their was no "BOOM! Pause. CLICK." Their was simply BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! complete with the trigger finger flying off the trigger immediately upon detonation of the primer.
I explained to them that I felt like a major portion of accurate shooting, especially at closer distances like we were shooting at, had to do with FOLLOW THROUGH.
The reason my wife was getting outstanding hits was because of the follow through she was using.
On most common semi auto rifles you will hear an audible 'CLICK!' with proper reset of the trigger each the shot. It's an audible "attaboy" that tells you that your follow through was correct.
Slack is taken up in the trigger, the trigger is pressed (shot fired) AND HELD for a half sec or so after the shot is fired. Then and only then is the trigger allowed forward travel again- this is where you will hear the audible "attaboy" a.k.a the click.
IME teaching more than a few people how to shoot better, this is one thing that you can teach a shooter in 3 minutes that will DRASTICALLY improve their shooting. My wife shot at a BBQ/shoot we held a few years back. One fellow just marveled at how accurate she shot. It isn't that she has tens of thousands of rounds under her belt, she just applies the basic principles every time she shoots. To hear her tell it, the follow through is the most important. Big grin for me, cause I taught her :p
This is ONE of the things missing in dry fire practice also. You can practice keeping the trigger back, use dimes on top of the barrel, etc. but it's a whole nutha ballgame once live rounds are used. You need some actual trigger time working through your follow through.
This can be applied to pistols also. My G26 makes a similar audible click that tells me my follow through is good.
For the fast running crowd, understand that DONE PROPERLY this will in no way slow you down. If anything it makes you FASTER.
Give it a try next time your shooting and let me know what you think about it. Good luck.
Lowdown3
So we are down at the range and they do a little shooting and then being polite, step back a bit and ask if we want to shoot. I glanced at my wife and gave her a nod. We were shooting rifles at just 70 yards standing. She went forward of the rest of us and started to shoot-
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
BOOM! Pause. CLICK.
By the time my friend heard the third "click" he slowly starting walking around the side to get a better view of what she was doing. The wife finishes up. My friend doesn't ask. And they start shooting again. After a while he mentions getting a few "pointers" from me, etc.
Like most new shooters, our new friends were jumping off the trigger immediately after the shot broke. Their was no "BOOM! Pause. CLICK." Their was simply BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! complete with the trigger finger flying off the trigger immediately upon detonation of the primer.
I explained to them that I felt like a major portion of accurate shooting, especially at closer distances like we were shooting at, had to do with FOLLOW THROUGH.
The reason my wife was getting outstanding hits was because of the follow through she was using.
On most common semi auto rifles you will hear an audible 'CLICK!' with proper reset of the trigger each the shot. It's an audible "attaboy" that tells you that your follow through was correct.
Slack is taken up in the trigger, the trigger is pressed (shot fired) AND HELD for a half sec or so after the shot is fired. Then and only then is the trigger allowed forward travel again- this is where you will hear the audible "attaboy" a.k.a the click.
IME teaching more than a few people how to shoot better, this is one thing that you can teach a shooter in 3 minutes that will DRASTICALLY improve their shooting. My wife shot at a BBQ/shoot we held a few years back. One fellow just marveled at how accurate she shot. It isn't that she has tens of thousands of rounds under her belt, she just applies the basic principles every time she shoots. To hear her tell it, the follow through is the most important. Big grin for me, cause I taught her :p
This is ONE of the things missing in dry fire practice also. You can practice keeping the trigger back, use dimes on top of the barrel, etc. but it's a whole nutha ballgame once live rounds are used. You need some actual trigger time working through your follow through.
This can be applied to pistols also. My G26 makes a similar audible click that tells me my follow through is good.
For the fast running crowd, understand that DONE PROPERLY this will in no way slow you down. If anything it makes you FASTER.
Give it a try next time your shooting and let me know what you think about it. Good luck.
Lowdown3
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