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Post by bradshaw on Jan 19, 2017 22:22:18 GMT -5
"After the shot do you allow the trigger to reset or do you keep it ‘pulled'....until your follow through is complete?” ----Paul
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A thoughtful question, one I don’t think about. Relevant, nevertheless, and here is why. Person who jerk the trigger tend also to release it with a jerk, or reverse jerk. Think of trigger squeeze as a flex-reflex system. Accumulation and release. Smooth motion begets smooth motion. Jerky motion begets jerky motion. Smooth practice strokes smooth muscle memory. Then, when speed is called for, speed is smooth. Compress smoothness, don’t eliminate it.
I believe a panic release will stop FOLLOW THROUGH. Thus, I hold until the bullet is long gone.
When repeat shots are called for, release and reset happen in the sweep of the muzzle.
David Bradshaw
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Post by seancass on Jan 20, 2017 20:15:32 GMT -5
Trigger squeeze and release is a subject covered in a DVD by one Jerry Miculek. I didn't really get it the first time I watched it. Ten thousand rounds later, I re-watched the DVD and I could see it.
"Trigger Squeeze {and release} is more important than sight alignment."
A question well answered David! Compress smoothnees. Be patient, VERY quickly.
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Post by jayhawker on Jan 20, 2017 20:22:10 GMT -5
As Wyatt Earp said, "take your time, fast".
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Post by paulg on Jan 20, 2017 21:02:28 GMT -5
I understand the importance of smooth in the pull and reset especially in double action work. I was just curious if Mr. Bradshaw immediately reset the trigger after the shot or kept pressure on the trigger until his follow through reached its conclusion. To me, keeping the trigger pulled until the shot and follow through is complete shows discipline and mucho time behind said trigger. Shooting moving targets especially moving arial targets is heart pounding excitement to a newbie like me. It would take lots of practice for me to hold that trigger rearward particularly with a double action revolver.
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 22, 2017 21:32:34 GMT -5
Dry fire is an act of intention. The one thing DRY FIRE does beside hone COORDINATION, dry fire provides a visual through the shot. Thus, it’s the closest thing to firing tracers. Your mind becomes the tracer. Live fire stops the picture at hammer fall. In slow fire, one strives to call his or her shot. It is good to call your shot on aerial targets as well. LEADE introduces motion----absent from a stationary target. You want to see your sights. You may not see the sights. Try. You may see the flash of a sight picture, or not. To hit an aerial target while directing the bullets into a berm or beneath the horizon requires knowing where your sights are. The only way to know where your sights are is to “see" them, even for just a couple hundredths of a second. Instinct might work, but you risk filling the sky full of bullet holes.
To begin to see your sights takes “time on the mountain.” The flash sight picture and follow through are a continuum. You cannot leave the target and hope and hope to regain it. The EYES LOOK, the MIND SEES. Tunnel vision. Despite tunnel vision, the mind incorporates the background and determines when it is safe to squeeze. The mind is the safety. Timing of an aerial shot which must ground the bullet is not opportunistic, it is intentional.
David Bradshaw
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 8, 2018 22:41:59 GMT -5
Sean..... beaucoup thanks for taking time off your own trigger to lash together these videos.
David Bradshaw
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 8, 2018 22:45:52 GMT -5
Sean.... beaucoup thanks for taking time off your own trigger to lash together these videos,
David Bradshaw
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