Back to Shooting Again

[Al]

I am a Basic pistol instructor. But I have taken hundred of hours in SD training. Failed the Instructor's rating twice. I now have the Green Dot MOS on my 19 and 43 X. So after a summer of training I'll try the Instructor thing again.

I have though been training on my own with my Glock 44 (.22cal). Same size and trigger as my 19. Totally concentrating on trigger/hand/breath control. My shooting is better than ever bc I an focusing more. The 44 is a great firearm. Can't say enough good about it. I have not had one Fail to Feed or Eject since forever.

 

[burbguy82]

I am a Basic pistol instructor. But I have taken hundred of hours in SD training. Failed the Instructor's rating twice. I now have the Green Dot MOS on my 19 and 43 X. So after a summer of training I'll try the Instructor thing again.

I have though been training on my own with my Glock 44 (.22cal). Same size and trigger as my 19. Totally concentrating on trigger/hand/breath control. My shooting is better than ever bc I an focusing more. The 44 is a great firearm. Can't say enough good about it. I have not had one Fail to Feed or Eject since forever.

I suggest training as much as possible with the gun you intend to qualify with.

We all could shoot a bit more though. The world would be a better place if we did.

 

[JohnnyG]

Instructors watch for slide bite on new shooters, I missed one once.

 

[Al]

I suggest training as much as possible with the gun you intend to qualify with.

We all could shoot a bit more though. The world would be a better place if we did.

I understand what you are saying and I agree. But , Grip, breath and trigger control need to become as natural as breathing. Not disagreeing with you.

 

[Urshurak776]

Now we have posts started by Artificial Intelligence !!!!

 

[CleanSump]

Now we have posts started by Artificial Intelligence !!!!

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[burbguy82]

I understand what you are saying and I agree. But , Grip, breath and trigger control need to become as natural as breathing. Not disagreeing with you.

Point being. You can practice all those fundamentals with a lighter recoiling gun, and have excellent accuracy, and them go to full power cartridge, and accuracy will degrade for a bit.

Reason, flinch, muscle memory and the reset after recoil. If you get too used to the light recoil, when you go back to 9mm or whatever, you will hold the gun differently.

I agree, marksmanship fundamentals do not care about caliber, but the human brain does.

Over the last few years I have done the same thing, using 22 for some training, just to cut cost as ammo has got so high.