Controlling Your Body's Flinch Reaction When Firing a Gun

Learn about trigger control and how to control your body's flinch reaction when firing.

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Sports

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• personal
• defense
• pdn
• flinch
• body
• reaction
• handgun
• firearm

[Pinghar69]

Excellent video and a perfect drill for a student I had this past weekend.

[arkhiker]

This video allowed me to correct my trigger control problem. As soon as I watched this video, I went out to the range and put 36 of 40 rounds in the 10 ring at 21 feet at one round per second. Thanks for these tips!

[RobPincus]

JoeDaddy, That is a target shooting concern, but I think that for an actual fight situation, SMOOTH Trigger press is a much better training focus than precise. It is much worse to induce a little movement under most defensive shooting situations than it is to "short stroke" the gun and not be able to fire your follow up shot. I think a lot of time is wasted obsessing over perfect trigger actuation that will never really play out in a fight.

[JoeDaddy40]

This is good but if you learn the trigger reset on your weapon why would you let it all they way out and have to burn up the slack again??? move your finger just enough for the trigger to reset and then hold... burning up that slack every time seems like a waist of time to me.. Especially if your working on a SA or striker fired platform. When fractions of a second count why waste time.....

[shadowalker1776]

thank you for your videos

[PersonalGeek]

I prefer using randomly loaded "dummy rounds" to work on my flinch, but this works. You'll never really know how you flinch until you either have a malfunction or begin to train your mind not worry about the weapon firing or having a malfunction.

I also train myself to bring it back to the reset every time, even in rapid fire. Much like BRM of the M-4

Great video though for the brand new shooter!

[alexrex20]

your left arm looks lame in the first half of the video

[EddieSatan]

Slack.. Press... Reset... Slack.. Press.. Reset

[rdean45acp]

Good vid! My springer trp no problem i gueds because of the light single action. Now im working on shooting my glock 21sf consistently and im like 50-50. Some dsyd i do rally well other daus not so good. I rrally need to press instead of jerk the trigger! Thanks for sharing this vid"

[RobPincus]

No doubt, the timing was a bit off on a couple of Andy's presses... I can tell you that it isn't as easy as you might think to talk-teach & shoot at the same time! :-)