Holding a Sixgun

[Rick]

Yep, when you fire a shot the bullet will be on target where the muzzle was during recoil at the instant the bullet exits the muzzle. Change your grip even slightly and you have changed the recoil and the position of the muzzle at exit. Two bullets cannot go to the same place on target when fired with two different muzzle positions. Just as a reminder for anyone that may be new, the revolver is moving and the muzzle is rising under recoil well before the bullets exit.

 

[GaryN]

I don't have to worry about what I do with my little finger when shooting a revolver. I don't have one. Got cut off in 1971.

 

[KeithB]

Well, that settles that!

 

[Charles Graff]

Early on in my sixgun shooting, I avoided SA revolvers because I found they required much more attention to grip. The issue, at least for me, was it was so easy to rest the handgun on the trigger finger, which is not a good thing. To keep the trigger finger clear of the frame, required the grip of death.


When I started curling the pinkie finger under the grips/frame, things become much better. The frame did not rest on my trigger finger and the trigger pull was more or less straight back and easier to keep the trigger finger isolated from the frame around the trigger.

It is all a learning curve and there is no one way that is best for all.

 

[Cherokee]

For SA's, I tried the pinkie under the grip frame a few times, every time the pinkie suffered. I've shot SA so much its natural to me to grip such that my trigger finger is free of frame contact. However, as I get older, I am encountering proof that inconsistent grip will open up your groups very quickly; takes more focus now.

 

[Charles Graff]

Well, the pinkie does get whacked every now and again with some low level of pain. But as a Hindu Rheumatologist once told me: "Pain is a part of life. The only people that don't feel pain are dead people".

 

[Creeker]

However, as I get older, I am encountering proof that inconsistent grip will open up your groups very quickly; takes more focus now.

That's me times a hundred.

 

[KHornet]

My learning curves have often had sharp right turns.

Paul