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I believe this is what Russ was talking about when his post was high jacked . He also posted one very correct tip about holding the pistol stiller. Do you remember he stated you should use a similur weight as the pistol you are training to shoot , for your holding exercises? Let me go one step further, You should use the pistol itself for all your holding exercises , After all that is the object your training to hold stiller. Good Shooting Bill Horton

2650 Plus wrote:I believe this is what Russ was talking about when his post was high jacked . He also posted one very correct tip about holding the pistol stiller. Do you remember he stated you should use a similur weight as the pistol you are training to shoot , for your holding exercises? Let me go one step further, You should use the pistol itself for all your holding exercises , After all that is the object your training to hold stiller. Good Shooting Bill Horton

It is of course one option / point of view. Another is that you train with a slightly heavier weight to overload the muscles and in turn make the pistol then feel lighter. My opinion is that you need to do a mixture. Train slightly heavier weights for weight drills, not involving any sighting etc, and use the gun for finer motor control processes and where you are training the hold specifically and the raise / lower.

Rob.

When we say "holding exercise" are we talking of strength to hold it up, or of the fine details of grip and posture to align, stabilize, and also "up"?

The latter is very hard to find without coaching.

Muscle training to improve shooting can be a good idea, if weak muscles are the origin of poor scores. And btw they seldom are! One word of caution though. In physical training program you will often read the slogan "No gain without pain". This is totally untrue in shooting. Your aim should be to GENTLY ADAPT the muscles to the shooting activity.
Guy

In an effort to combine the thoughts and benefits of a little resistive weight training and dry firing, I filled an old magazine with lead and use it inserted while dry firing with the Ball gun and the Wad gun. As I shoot a Marvel conversion for .22 I can use it there also when I choose to. It is lo-tech, effective and does not train you to hold without moving the trigger, which some feel promotes chicken finger.

Scott
Vermont

As an "exercise", I am trying to train my forearm to set my wrist stiff prior to the thumb ham and fingers gripping the gun. I find forearm control easy to do but hard to initiate from the mind. But it is becoming better and more automatic. I do this because I believe you can squeeze the grip hard with a fist, but that does not automatically set the wrist stiff. So I am exercising the forearm. Not in the pain=gain mode, but in a control=results mode. I hope I don't have to explain this. Without visual, that would be tough to do