How much trigger finger?

[breakingtime91]

another quick question, when people reference pushing/crushing with the support hand do they just mean squeezing the shit out of the pistol/strong hand with the support hand? Obviously pushing with the support hand thumb is pretty straight forward and so is the concept of choking the front of the gun but ya.. does crushing literally mean squeeze as hard as possible?

[GJM]

Thank you. I have alot to try, I especially want to explore trigger finger placement and I want to focus on "crushing" with my.support hand.

While "crushing" might help shooting fast, it may also mask defects in how you press the trigger. I have shot over 1,000 rounds in the last six days, strong hand only (left elbow problem), and one hand shooting shows up trigger control issues immediately. I have shot a bunch of dots at 7 to 10 yards on paper, and seeing the exact hits is invaluable.

[Frank R]

another quick question, when people reference pushing/crushing with the support hand do they just mean squeezing the shit out of the pistol/strong hand with the support hand? Obviously pushing with the support hand thumb is pretty straight forward and so is the concept of choking the front of the gun but ya.. does crushing literally mean squeeze as hard as possible?

Squeez harder with your support hand than your strong hand.

[ken grant]

Ron Avery has some good pointers here on finger placement as well as grip tension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azb3q8wOrV4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9rKDEXPvM

[jmcrawf1]

Pat Mac gave this exact advise to glock shooters at the TAPS class I took a few months ago. He is very much an advocate of "try it and see if you like it" way of thinking. Well, I tried it and it works. I have long fingers which get all crammed up in my grip. I was a chronic low, left sufferer and this advice really helped out.

[jmcrawf1]

I don't believe there is a "one size fits all" solution to how you work the Glock trigger, beyond pick a method that allows you to press the trigger without disturbing the sights. I have migrated to closer to the tip of the finger free style, but use more finger, support hand only. Make sure your "lots of finger" doesn't cause you to contact the frame with the base of your trigger finger.

In Mac's demonstration at his class, this is exactly what he is advocating. Sucking out the day light between the frame and your trigger finger. He says to run your finger straight along the frame and then drop it into the trigger guard. Your finger will contact the trigger where it contacts it, depending on hand/finger size. He contended that the space between the finger and frame was the source of the low/left push.

[Failure2Stop]

Isn't the notch on the Heinie rear Glock sight offset slightly right by design?

I had heard that Warren sights were intentionally biased to the right, but Scott informed me that while it is possible that some sights had a slight bias, it was not intentional and that current sights do not.
Cannot confirm Heinie.

[GJM]

I had heard that Warren sights were intentionally biased to the right, but Scott informed me that while it is possible that some sights had a slight bias, it was not intentional and that current sights do not.
Cannot confirm Heinie.

Reference here by JV to Heinie offset right:

https://pistol-forum.com/archive/index.php/t-1701.html?