Help with TX CHL Test Prep

[Art Eatman]

Hitting low left usually comes from "wristing". Squeezing the grip as you press the trigger.

Try this: Hold your arm in sort of a shooting position. Move only the trigger finger and watch your forearm. You'll see that the muscles of your forearm hardly move. Now, squeeze the other three fingers as you move the trigger finger. You'll see quite a bit of flex in your forearm. That causes your hand to rotate slightly left and slightly down.

 

[LoneStarWings]

Hitting low left usually comes from "wristing". Squeezing the grip as you press the trigger.

Try this: Hold your arm in sort of a shooting position. Move only the trigger finger and watch your forearm. You'll see that the muscles of your forearm hardly move. Now, squeeze the other three fingers as you move the trigger finger. You'll see quite a bit of flex in your forearm. That causes your hand to rotate slightly left and slightly down.

Thank you very much for the help.

I get great groups when I can sit there all day and squeeze really slowly, but that probably wasn't going to hack it for 2 shots in 3 seconds on the CHL test rhythm so I sped things up. Ahhh well, fixing this problem just gives me a good excuse to keep going to the range

 

[bdickens]

Don't sweat the times too much. Try counting them off while you are looking at the second hand on your watch and you'll see just how long those seconds are. You are much more likely to mess up if you try to rush it than if you relax and take your time.

 

[rich636]

I know this sounds strange but our instructor didn't want us to get a perfect shooting score. If you were doing to well he wanted a couple of fliers. I think his rationale was that God forbid you were involved in a shooting and hit something or someone unintended a prosecutor could call your score to evidence and say "you are an expert shot, how could this happen?". I didn't put much stock in this but I couldn't shoot 100% if I wanted to so it worked out. Anyways, congrats on a good score and getting your CHL!