Grip adjustment/trigger pull adjustment
K Im gonna keep practicing and try to use just my fingertip for now. I have really been trying to squeeze the trigger and not jerk knowing I am shooting low left. What I dont understand is that i shoot the other pistols i own almost dead on and am having trouble w/ the 1911 platform - anyone else seem to have this problem?
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Owning just one, as of now, the 1911 platform actually, IMHO, is one of the best, if not, the_best, due to both its thinner grip and the SAO trigger weight/pull and smoothness it offers vs all my other DA/SA platform Sigs and Beretta.
I shoot the DA/SA/'s far more than the one EMP 1911 9mm and whenever I do take the little 1911 to the range the transformation in both grip/difference/ girth wise, is very evident, along with the lighter trigger pull vs the SA's in most of my DA/SA guns but I never have a problem of, and with, the transition, be with my 1911 or others, at my range, that have problems, much like yours, low and left or FTF/FTE jams. Most of the time it always comes down to shooter error with limp-wristing as far as the jams go and it's always the jerking of the trigger because they're chasing the sights, namely, front, jerking the shot as it passes, or gets on, the point/bulls eye - they're wanting to hit it/and it's take the shot - now!!!
The other, (changing grip-movement) shots going left, problem, can be (low time) lack of understanding of the 45caliber, in that, it does not offer the same recoil-effects of either 9mm or 40cal, et. al., in that, it pushes back far more than flips up. But, in order for you to see/feel the difference, accuracy wise you're gonna need to adjust to things. First, squeezing/pressing off the shot along with not "tightening your grip - fingers", namely, support hand grip/fingers right at the moment of taking the shot.. will twist the gun left every-time and something you can see very easily with "little pressure" while you're practicing trigger pulls using snap caps mentioned below.
Find the right/correct/balanced grip and trust it and don't chase the front sight in "taking the shot too quickly, as in the_now !! effect. Just shoot relaxed by letting the gun do what it does best and your accuracy should come home and at the same time the shots, going left will cease more and more either by grip being stable a/o not jerking the trigger/chasing the front sight/target.
And, keep your focus on the front sight and don't look to see where the shot/s are hitting until "after the shot/s" have been taken.
New gun, new feelings, new changes, that in the long term, usually roll over to most any other type semi handgun and caliber.
Ref: Snap Caps
But get them in 45cal
So, "get a pack of snap caps" around 14 bucks or less, load one in the chamber and have one reserve in the mag to practice a cycling procedure now and then as they really do help preserve your firing pin and its spring as it is "meant to hit something" to stop short of "over travel" which stretches the spring until.. well, you don't want it a broken firing pin - no bang/s.. Thus the use of snap caps IMHO..
Enjoy,
Ls