About a year ago I decided to give a striker gun a good honest try.I had snobbishly said on many occasions that striker fired pistols with their mushy,creepy triggers just weren't for me.I had some decent 1911's and a few revolvers and a SA-DA Performance Center S&W Shorty Forty that was my EDC gun.
On one of my weekly trips to the LGS the store manager told me about the great deal they were running on Sig P320 Compacts that they had too many of and I bought one.I took it home,cleaned it and took it out to the range.I had that trigger on my mind,and I was working hard to keep my mind open and give it a fair trial.I concentrated on keeping the sights on target through the trigger pull and I started seeing good things happen.One of the best things to happen was that I wasn't punching the trigger when the sight picture was perfect.Instead,I was just squeezing through the trigger without being so picky about what the sights looked like.After a magazine or two,I was actually shooting that P320 45 better than I was shooting my 1911.It was an evening that was a real eye opener to say the least.
My shooting got better because my trigger control got better.Hard to believe,but a pistol that had a trigger that I knew I couldn't shoot had opened my eyes to a major problem in my shooting technique.It was just a matter of getting back to basics and learning how to keep the trigger,no matter what kind,from upsetting the sight picture before the shot.I recently bought my fourth striker fired pistol,and shooting them now is improving my shooting with the lighter,crisper single action triggers.I know there's a difference between the Glock trigger and the Sig,but not that much when compared to a single action trigger.Had I not been willing to give something different a chance,I well could have missed out on a valuable lesson that really improved my shooting game a lot.