Shooting HELP (off to left @ 15 ft)

[BBsteel]

Hey guys just a rather simple question from a novice shooter. I seem to be just off to the left @ 15 feet illustrated in the attached picture with my 9 mm M&P. I shoot ever single gun I pick up just like this and I'm wondering what to work on. I have the Shooters chart that tells me I have too little or too much trigger pull or I could be sqeezing my fingers when pulling the trigger. Not sure how to interpret all that.

Some background on me:
I have a stigmatism and don't wear corrective lenses so I shut my left eye (the eye with the problem)
I am right eye dominant
I am a right handed shooter

Questions:
Are you supposed to have your dominant hand (in my case right) extending straight out and stiff to compenate for recoil?

Could I be pulling the trigger too much after the shot?

Anything that you can think of will help so let me have it! Thanks!

 

[PPGMD]

I'm not really good enough to tell you what you are doing wrong based on a target, but I would put a snap cap in the pistol and pull the trigger, watch what happens to the sight picture. It shouldn't move at all if you are doing it properly.

Edit: Those are pretty small targets, more like rifle targets then pistol targets. I shoot an 11" target when I am working on precision, and silhouette when I am working on drills.

 

[GRIZ22]

I would put a snap cap in the pistol and pull the trigger, what what happens to the sight picture.

I agree. It shouldn't move.

I have this same problem and have found the easy fix. I have normal size hands but short fingers. If I fllow the standard "the top of the grip should be in the web of your thumb" my fingertip barely reaches the trigger even with a J frame S&W. I normally push shots off to the left like you do. I just wrap my hand around the grip to the right (as you're looking at it from the rear). My last knuckle of my thumb (closest to the palm) is now at the top of the backstrap. My trigger finger winds up actually through the trigger guard with the trigger between my 1st and 2nd knuckle (from the tip). Shots are now centered.

There are some that say you shouldn't do this. I spent nearly 30 years as a LE firearms instructor and have found many people have to vary from the norm to be good shooters. If what they do is safe it really doesn't matter what they do. This is one of those things.

If this doesn't work try drifting the rear sight (possible on your gun?). When the agency I worked for switched to Glocks in 1998 I thought it was me when nearly every gun was hitting left. This is the way they came from the factory. I got very adept at using the sight pusher (about 100 agents in my office at that time).

 

[Lonestar49]

Quote:I'm not really good enough to tell you what you are doing wrong based on a target, but I would put a snap cap in the pistol and pull the trigger, watch what happens to the sight picture. It shouldn't move at all if you are doing it properly.
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Exactly.. load 2 mags, and insert 2 snap caps, in each mag, around the 3rd or 4th round and separate the two dry caps by 2 or 3 live bullets per mag.

You'll forget where they are, trust me, lol, and when you pull the trigger and no boom, just click, watch and see what is happening.

Use the snap caps to dry-fire at home to over come both heavy, uneven, trigger pulls, both in DA and SA modes.

If this is not the problem then my next guess is that your rear sight may be sightly off to the left.

A set of snap caps in the type caliber gun you have are worth the 16 bucks, if that, and come 5 to a set.


LS

 

[torrejon224]

This article might help:
http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Marksman-(Snipe)-With-a-Pistol

 

[Steve C]

For a right handed shooter, mirror for a lefty.