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]

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[CleanSump]

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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.

 

[shortyb]

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.

Spot on. Unfortunately, .22 is starting to catch up to the other calibers in cost .

 

[Cropduster172]

Spot on. Unfortunately, .22 is starting to catch up to the other calibers in cost .

And...you shoot it up faster!

 

[4wd]

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