This week I bring you what I was doing wrong and 10 pistol shooting tips that helped me shoot faster and more accurately. Maybe they help you too!
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So taking a look at pistol shooting, I noticed that I had slipped into a more speed shooting form. I think I had watched a few too many youtube guys that want to shoot fast. My style changed to a more broken elbow style that gave to edge to speed, at a clear disadvantage to recoil control.
The idea with these tips is to also help shoot a pistol AT SPEED. As you can shoot one shot upside down accurately, this is about setting yourself up for the correct position for follow-up shows.
I had a lot of help from Joe and various shooters on youtube. I’ve linked all the videos that really helped me shoot better throughout various parts of the video.
When looking at my pistol shooting form, I really started from a ground up approach to look at every piece and look at my form closely at each part.
As mentioned by John Lovell, a lot of this is 80/20. 80 percent is what you must do while the other 20 percent is what works for you. So a lot of what works for me, may not work for you. I recommend you look at multiple different teachers and styles to find the best style and form that works for you and your physiology.
The ten tips I walk through in this video are:
1. Stance – How are you positioned? Are you in a position to balance both accuracy, recoil, and still be able to move and react?
2. Natural point of aim – What is your natural point of aim? Do you know it and can you assume that position before things go sideways?
3. Hand tension – How hard should you be gripping the pistol? Is choking the life out of the pistol the best option for you or is there a balance?
4. Hand placement – Is your pistol in the correct part of your hand? Do you align the pistol in a way to make sure the pistol has the most skin contact on the grip?
5. Palm pressures – Where are you placing your pressure on the grip? High on the frame or against the grip, there are advantages and disadvantages to both and your body type may only like one.
6. Lead forward – Are you in a position to balance speed and power? Leaning forward controls recoil but leaning too far restricts your movement so you need a balance between the two.
7. Consistent trigger finger placement – are you placing your finger on the same spot of the trigger each time? Chasing form errors when your trigger finger is on the top one string and the bottom another would be impossible.
8. Strong Wrists – Are you able to add the correct strength to your wrists? The wrist is the first area to fail when shooting multiple shots and you need to be able to feel what the correct strength feels like.
9. Push out – Do you push your arms out and use your bone structure to control recoil? There is a balance of speed and recoil control as you push out further and closer to the body and you need to find the balance for what you want to achieve.
10. Consistent rise and fall – Does your pistol rise and fall in the same position? By having a consistent rise and fall, you can anticipate the pistol and shoot faster and more accurately.
With these ten tips, I was able to go back out to the range with my Staccato P and shoot some very good groups at around 17-20 yards.
I also redid my Staccato challenge at the same distance since I did so poorly the first time.
Hopefully, by seeing some of the things I was doing wrong and how I corrected them, you can also improve your pistol form to shoot more accurately at speed.
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Music by: @Barren Gates