Involuntary movement of a handgun while shooting

[Sniper66]

Mike,

Your last post is probably the best answer; you have to experiment with what works best for you and age changes things. What worked 10 years ago, doesn't work presently. Personal story; I was born with a disorder, which has, among other symptoms, a hand tremor. For most of my adult life I did not attempt to shoot pistols for obvious reasons. However, I learned to compensate for the tremor with rifles and have become a better than average rifle shooter. I can hit prairie dogs at 300 yards because I have good equipment and I practice. Figure I might be able to do the same with pistols. I am now a decent pistol shooter and have lots of experimenting yet to do. And last, a good shooting coach once told a group of us to "embrace your wobble". Which means that all of us have some habitual movement as we sight down the barrel and that we should learn to live with it and shoot accordingly. Good luck.

 

[mikemyers]

Thanks, everyone.

So much overlapping information, most of which fits together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Lots and lots of previous information in these forums about how to get the best you can out of a gun, and also on what kinds of guns seem to make it easiest to get the desired performance.

I went to the range today with three guns, intending to just relax and enjoy shooting before taking off on my trip. My S&W Model 28, which weighs as much as a small car, finally, after all these years, did what I could never do before - a nice grouping shooting SA. With a written list of everything that's been suggested to me over the past year or so, and me going through it like an airplane pilot's "checklist", it actually worked, and I found all the weight of the gun actually seemed to stabilize it.

Next up was a 22 High Standard, which weighs a small fraction of what the M28 weighs. Somehow, the red dot sight seemed reasonably stable, giving me the best results I've ever gotten from that gun. I should add that both guns felt good in my hands.


Feeling pretty good, I picked up my Taurus PT92 AFS, which I've only shot once before. It feels perfectly balanced, light (alloy frame) and when I shoot it, nothing seems to be going terribly wrong - but it has non-adjustable sights (need to learn how to get used to them), a mile long trigger pull before anything happens, and a pretty heavy trigger to boot. If you guys saw my grouping from that gun, you'd boot me out of this forum.


Anyway, bottom line, I'll accept that "balance" is important, but I don't think I know enough right now to even pretend to know what the best balance is for me.

(I'll probably buy the same gun as in 460Kodiak's photo, install all the weights, and start there. Then I can remove half the weights, and see how my results compare. ....and so on.)

 

[Officers'Wife]

Back when my Dad was my cruel and evil guardian he felt the "minimum muscle" was being able to climb a robe hand over hand. While he was just being cruel and evil I suspect pull ups would be useful in strengthening grip, wrists, arms and shoulders.

A certain unnamed idiot that shall remain my brother insists that squeezing a tennis ball helps his grip, especially with that thing he calls a revolver.

 

[mikemyers]

Back when my Dad was my cruel and evil guardian he felt the "minimum muscle" was being able to climb a robe hand over hand. While he was just being cruel and evil I suspect pull ups would be useful in strengthening grip, wrists, arms and shoulders.

A certain unnamed idiot that shall remain my brother insists that squeezing a tennis ball helps his grip, especially with that thing he calls a revolver.

How about this "tennis ball"?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNKIUCQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ARXI9TDAI27FO