took the Advice you guys gave and ultimately turned out good

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boom boom said:
Check out Frank Ettin's classic post on Trigger Control in Strategies and Tactics. It is a classic and can help you stay on target--literally.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/trigger-control.834737/
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"In our teaching we avoid using the words "squeeze" or "pull" to describe the actuation of the trigger. We prefer to refer to "pressing" the trigger. The word "press" seems to better describe the process of smoothly pressing the trigger straight back, with only the trigger finger moving, to a surprise break."

good read

i really liked this advice
 
CapnMac said:
Shooting is way better than golf.
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never been into golf...B-ball, baseball, football, etc. are fairly cheap when compared with Golf or Firearms but i can't equate the same feeling i got from pulling that trigger, half shaking, half trying to exhale, breathe relax...Shooting is def. tops on my list


just gotta find some good deals
 
ykang213 said:
"In our teaching we avoid using the words "squeeze" or "pull" to describe the actuation of the trigger. We prefer to refer to "pressing" the trigger. The word "press" seems to better describe the process of smoothly pressing the trigger straight back, with only the trigger finger moving, to a surprise break."

good read

i really liked this advice
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BTW, Welcome to the High Road forum again. Stick around and ask any firearm related question you might want answered. Someone on this forum (in many cases several someones) will know the answer to it usually.
 
ykang213 said:
"In our teaching we avoid using the words "squeeze" or "pull" to describe the actuation of the trigger. We prefer to refer to "pressing" the trigger. The word "press" seems to better describe the process of smoothly pressing the trigger straight back, with only the trigger finger moving, to a surprise break."

good read

i really liked this advice
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This is the very first I ever heard anyone say "press the trigger..." It has always been squeeze the trigger...
 
G.E. Lee said:
Jed, Jethro, Granny, and Ellie May wonder about shooting golfs...

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I never shot a shotgun before, let alone did any skeet or trap, so wouldn't using golf balls for that be far more fun then clay pigeons?
 
whm1974 said:
This is the very first I ever heard anyone say "press the trigger..." It has always been squeeze the trigger...
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Squeezing something might or might not have the same pressure applied throughout the process.

Press implies like in weightlifting, a continuous smooth backwards motion of the trigger finger until firing such as the military press in weightlifting. In weightlifting, if one starts and stops on the way up or down, it creates problems. Thus, smooth continuous motions are preferred for both the trigger press and weightlifting as jerky ones cause problems.

I have a few revolvers that I can trigger cock if I want but I do not practice that as a standard firing technique because it ruins your double action trigger stroke for a bit more accuracy perhaps. It is simply something to keep in the toolbox if you need to take a distant accurate shot and have the time to do so.

Firing revolvers double action teaches a few things--one is that a smooth trigger is preferable as your trigger press will not be continuous pressure if the trigger stacks, second, it teaches that a full reset is needed so the action becomes something like rowing a boat back and forth in a continuous flowing motion.
 
whm1974 said:
I never shot a shotgun before, let alone did any skeet or trap, so wouldn't using golf balls for that be far more fun then clay pigeons?
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Golf balls are hard enough that you might get the billiard ball effect with unpredictable trajectories. Clay pigeons break instead.
 
whm1974 said:
This is the very first I ever heard anyone say "press the trigger..." It has always been squeeze the trigger...
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I'm with a group of instructors who put on monthly basic handgun classes. Most of our students have never even touched a gun before. In our teaching we avoid using the words "squeeze" or "pull" to describe the actuation of the trigger. We prefer to refer to "pressing" the trigger. The word "press" seems to better describe the process of smoothly pressing the trigger straight back, with only the trigger finger moving, to a surprise break. And it seems to be more readily translatable by our students to the correct, physical action.
 
No disrespect to the late Col. Cooper, but I squeeze the trigger. I don't press, like press the button on the elevator...with the tip of the finger. Press is just silly.

whm1974 said:
This is the very first I ever heard anyone say "press the trigger..." It has always been squeeze the trigger...
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sparkyv said:
but I squeeze the trigger.
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Which is fair enough.
Janice from Accounting, who is new to guns, probably equates "squeeze" with what you do with those teeny limes from Walmart to get three drops of juice out.
Jimmy from Marketing, who is also new to firearms, may relate "squeeze" to a maximum effort like a double play in softball.
Which is, I will suggest, what our esteemed Mr Ettin was getting to, for those new to "our" game, "press" is something you do to buttons, a deliberate action, a specific action.
 
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