Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:24 pm
Good discussion, here are a couple of additional thoughts:
Question:
Are we trying to find the technically best/most efficient shooting platform,
or the one that's natural for our body? They are not always the same.
Under stress I guess most of us will involuntarily fall back into the latter.
I think this is important.
For me personally NPA is probably something I "produce" e.g. by opening or closing my stance and shoulder alignment, but it's the most important decision criterion for rejecting a shot. If I find I have to "force" the sights into the center, I figure my stance is wrong and I should start the shot all over with a corrected stance that makes it easy to centre the sights. If I carry through, the shot will often be a bad one.
Of course I should have sorted this out before raising the gun......
Sideways sight alignment is often a matter of placing the grip correctly into your hand before closing your fingers. You may want to establish a routine for this and maybe some indicator mark to make it repeatable.
I'm the happy owner of a pistol with a sideways adjustable grip.
Canting may involve control of twisting your arm.
I'm surprised how little they say about this in the manuals.
Awareness may be enhanced by a simple excercise: Raise your arn as if shooting and rotate your hand as if canting the gun.
You will most likely be twisting your lower arm.
Now bend your arm at the elbow so you'll point straight up.
Now rotate the arm again with the elbow kept at right angles so you would be shooting to the left.
This time the rotation will be in the shoulder joint.
Being aware of this, you should be able to control how you rotate your arm to correct for canting the gun.
So what's right or wrong? I don't know, maybe what suits you best.
And of course, like others have said, there's nothing wrong about modifying the grip as well.
Question:
Are we trying to find the technically best/most efficient shooting platform,
or the one that's natural for our body? They are not always the same.
Under stress I guess most of us will involuntarily fall back into the latter.
I think this is important.
For me personally NPA is probably something I "produce" e.g. by opening or closing my stance and shoulder alignment, but it's the most important decision criterion for rejecting a shot. If I find I have to "force" the sights into the center, I figure my stance is wrong and I should start the shot all over with a corrected stance that makes it easy to centre the sights. If I carry through, the shot will often be a bad one.
Of course I should have sorted this out before raising the gun......
Sideways sight alignment is often a matter of placing the grip correctly into your hand before closing your fingers. You may want to establish a routine for this and maybe some indicator mark to make it repeatable.
I'm the happy owner of a pistol with a sideways adjustable grip.
Canting may involve control of twisting your arm.
I'm surprised how little they say about this in the manuals.
Awareness may be enhanced by a simple excercise: Raise your arn as if shooting and rotate your hand as if canting the gun.
You will most likely be twisting your lower arm.
Now bend your arm at the elbow so you'll point straight up.
Now rotate the arm again with the elbow kept at right angles so you would be shooting to the left.
This time the rotation will be in the shoulder joint.
Being aware of this, you should be able to control how you rotate your arm to correct for canting the gun.
So what's right or wrong? I don't know, maybe what suits you best.
And of course, like others have said, there's nothing wrong about modifying the grip as well.