Originally Posted by
spinmove_
You make an excellent point. Triggers do most definitely only go the rear. However, when someone uses the term "press the trigger straight to the rear", it says, at least in my mind, "press the trigger only rearward, not rear and to the left and not rear and to the right". It's definitely the same thing as "press the trigger to the rear without disturbing sight alignment". At least, that's how I interpret that statement.
So how do I practice dry firing trigger control? Your timing is impeccable as I'm actually reading your dry practice thread right now. Before today, I was practicing slow and deliberate trigger presses, while prepping the trigger to the break point, then breaking the shot as slow as possible, then keeping the trigger pressed to the rear while cycling the slide, then realigning the sights still keeping the trigger pressed rearward, then letting the trigger out to reset and no further, then pressing the trigger slowly and deliberately through the break. Rinse and repeat. Everything in your dry practice thread is telling me that I'm doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I should be doing. So taking that into consideration, I will be changing up my dry fire practice method considerably.
Being as ridiculously over-analytical as I am, I tend to be a perfectionist. So if I'm having a bad day or I'm tired or both, if I screw up, even just a little bit, I'll get down on myself and probably ingrain some bad habits. So I need to approach the exercise with far more leniency towards myself if I happen to make a mistake somewhere, as I am human after all and will make mistakes. Sometimes its just simply hard for me to not go "ERMAHGERD, I PULLED A SINGLE SHOT LEFT, I'M THE WURST PISTOL HANDLER EVAR!!!" so it'll be somewhat of a learning experience. I mention this because looking back now, I've noticed that when I do get frustrated and start screwing up, I start crushing the absolute dog crap out of the gun with both hands and press the trigger ever slower and more deliberate, oddly enough, completely to further detriment only to continue doing it over and over in an effort to "force" the gun to give me the correct shot.