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Support Hand Grip Question
Hi, I am a left handed shooter and my groupings are always slightly to the right. I have been reading a lot about proper grip using the thumbs forward grip, dry firing, and trigger control. I also have looked at target analysis charts. I seem to be still shooting to the right. Last night while dry firing I think I stumbled on the reason. I seem to be squeezing my support hand fingers which is then putting pressure on my strong hand causing the gun to point right just as it goes off. Any suggestions on how to focus on correcting this? I really appreciate any advice or thoughts.
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Hi, I am a left handed shooter and my groupings are always slightly to the right. I have been reading a lot about proper grip using the thumbs forward grip, dry firing, and trigger control. I also have looked at target analysis charts. I seem to be still shooting to the right. Last night while dry firing I think I stumbled on the reason. I seem to be squeezing my support hand fingers which is then putting pressure on my strong hand causing the gun to point right just as it goes off. Any suggestions on how to focus on correcting this? I really appreciate any advice or thoughts.
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When I went to the new grip I was shooting way right. Had to play with my trigger finger placement to bring it more center.\
PS I am a lefty
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You want to squeeze the heck out of your strong hand using you weak hand. Your weak hand should all ways have a very tight grip of your strong hand. Seems like your not gripping much if at all with your weak hand until you start to pull the trigger.
Strong hand grips the gun front to back, weak hand grips you strong hand and gun side to side. Weak hand should always have a very firm (almost death) grip on you strong hand.
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really need to try to isolate your individual hand movements. only moving part should be trigger finger. . .everything else is gripping and squeezing and no other moving parts.
more practice just to develop muscle memory.
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really need to try to isolate your individual hand movements. only moving part should be trigger finger. . .everything else is gripping and squeezing and no other moving parts.
more practice just to develop muscle memory.
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Originally Posted by SAXD40m
Hi, I am a left handed shooter and my groupings are always slightly to the right. I have been reading a lot about proper grip using the thumbs forward grip, dry firing, and trigger control. I also have looked at target analysis charts. I seem to be still shooting to the right. Last night while dry firing I think I stumbled on the reason. I seem to be squeezing my support hand fingers which is then putting pressure on my strong hand causing the gun to point right just as it goes off. Any suggestions on how to focus on correcting this? I really appreciate any advice or thoughts.
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It's called, "milking the grip" -- like sshrick said, the only thing moving should be your trigger finger. Practice...
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When I shoot, I don't actually like to think, this hand should hold that much and my support hand should be this...etc. I just hold the gun comfortably and safely to manage recoil. I had the same problem you did but I shot left (i'm right handed). One thing that helped me was, I put the supporting hands thumb against the slide and just somewhat barely push to help manage recoil or bad trigger pulls. Give it a shot. That and a lot of dry fire worked for me! 
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