Cornstalker started a thread on index, and in the process of answering him, I was reminded how, try as I may, I still have some press out in my draw stroke. That got me thinking about the difference between using index to guide your presentation, with sights to confirm your index, versus trying to get the sights in your line of sight and visually guiding your presentation. TPC is a big proponent of using index with sights to confirm, and biomechanically it makes the most sense to me.
This is me tipping the gun up, trying to get the sights in play early.
That has worked pretty well for me, but I felt like I was leaving money on the table with this circuitous presentation path. Another negative associated with it, is you can’t set your wrist angle early, since you are doing what my wife refers to as the zebco move.
This morning I dry fired hard trying to straighten out my draw path. Picture one is the press out way, and picture two is the direct presentation.
Early afternoon, we hit the range to test the work. It was darn cold and windy, which didn’t help things. After initial results seemed promising, I tested it on an eight steel at 25 yards. It felt a lot easier using index than sights as primary, an the timer said I was drawing to the eight inch at 25 yards in .80-.93.
Might be worth examining your draw in slow motion and seeing if you can be more efficient.