MaxWyatt wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:04 pm
danhue wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:37 pm
Bacchus wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:54 pm
... well, that was fun. For giggles, I shot weak hand centerfire with my 1911. It worked: When I saw my targets I actually laughed out loud.
Me too. With a 7-round mag, I opted to shoot each string with 5 rounds and a reload. I noticed MASSIVE recoil anticipation on my part on one occasion, when I failed to notice the slide had locked back and I tried to fire the gun. I thought I was past that, but evidently not.
The whole weak hand centerfire segment has really got me thinking about technique now. Honestly, I was lucky just to get some of the shots on paper. I've also noticed recently that when I've been shooting a lot of 22, that it takes some deliberate focus to shoot the 9mm correctly again. After 30 or so rounds, groups start appearing again. I have yet to fully grok
the implications and causes of the phenomenon, but it seems that grip and follow through are central to the issue. .. probably some recoil anticipation too. Next time I'm shooting I'll be paying much closer attention!
This was a great idea for a match. We should do it again.
Agreed on the match. I hope there was good participation, because I'd like to do it again, too.
Thoughts on the single weak-handed shooting thing: I found I could keep things
relatively tight on slow fire, taking care with the grip, breathing, and trigger pull. Things fall apart (respect to Chinua Achebe) when the shooting got lively. The grip strength is there on my weak hand, but I seem to be missing a lot of the stabilizing muscles that offer so much better control with my right hand; I can let my wrist roll with the recoil just fine, but when I try to firm that up and control it the aim gets all wobbly until I can settle it down. Not an issue with Slow Fire, because there's time. But when trying to stay on - or get back on - target, all that wobble uses precious time that takes away from a careful trigger pull.
At least that's how I analyze my experience. My strong hand has all this practice with fine motor stuff that has developed stabilizing muscles. Granted, I used .45 ACP on the weak hand centerfire and 9mm on the strong hand. The recoil differential accounted for some variance, but not nearly all. I ran a practice target with 9mm weak hand, timed fire and found I had slightly better control but the same issue with getting back on target and the shots were still scattered. Looking forward to practicing more with the weak hand and faster fire.
Thank you Bucolic for putting this together, and to Sail (I think- sorry if I got that wrong) for the excellent named theme.
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