J-Frame noob here. Where do you position your finger on the trigger? I’m finding I have a lot more control by wrapping my finger around the trigger in regards to stacking and stability. However it feels counter intuitive because of how I shoot a striker fired pistol.
Last edited by 23JAZ; 10-02-2018 at 10:32 PM.
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Looks like your finger placement is on the first cress which is correct. At the range you can try Claude Werner's dummy drill which is fire 1 open cyl and spin then close, repeat until you get 5 dry fires in a row. Good luck
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Great tip, thanks Mike.Originally Posted by Mike Pipes
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That looks like my j-frame finger placement. Totally different from how I shoot an SFA auto.
Last edited by Irelander; 10-03-2018 at 08:03 AM.
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Get your grip right, let the finger hit where it's going to hit. I want my wrist neutral and in line with the forearm bones so the gun points straight without fishing for the sights and recoils/settles as near to perfectly vertical as possible. If you are torquing your wrist around to get more or less finger on the trigger, that's going to cause more issues than it fixes IMO. As long as it's *somewhere* near the first joint of the finger, I'm fine with it. If I can barely get my first pad on it or I'm so deep in the trigger my finger is hitting my off hand (the more normal issue with small guns) changing the grip out becomes the next step.
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That's the way I shoot J frames and also small autos like G42/43. Otherwise I get the front sight twitch to the right.
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As BBI said - get the gun sitting in the pocket of the hand right first - then worry about the trigger. If you're canting the gun over sideways for more or less trigger finger, you're doing it wrong. If, when you get the gun in the hand properly, you can't stroke the trigger well, swap the grips out and dry-fire.
You might find Grant Cunningham's Book of The Revolver useful. He does a good job discussing finger placement and bore alignment with your forearm. It's a real good "new to revolvers" book. Available through Amazon tab in header row above.
That picture is where my finger naturally falls on the trigger. It feels perfect and I have the best control of the trigger in that position. I was just wondering if there was a better way of doing it that my noob self didn’t know about.
Thanks for all the great input everyone!
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