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Originally posted by BuddyChryst:
I have to disagree with tanksoldier, both on his wheel of misfortune and his finger placement. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong, but his wheel needs to be corrected:


OP, it looks to me like you’re not shooting 4” left. You’re shooting low left which is classic signs of anticipating/flinching. My prescription for a flinch:
Double up ear pro, especially indoors (avoid indoors if possible)
Start by loosening up on your grip a bit. Focus on gripping like a C-clamp, not a strap wrench. Pressure should be front and rear, not all around.
Dry fire to practice these items and familiarize yourself with the trigger, but often flinches are reactions to the “bang” which can’t be replicated using dry-fire. So live-fire with a looser grip to get used to the feeling and realizing that the gun isn’t going to fly out of your hand.

ETA: forgot to cover why I disagree with finger placement. Basically it doesn’t matter if you have good fundamentals. Shifting your placement may help you achieve a directly rearward press. And maybe you can train yourself to get that placement repeatedly. I go for natural and repeatable myself. I don’t want to need to have the perfect grip and the perfect draw and the perfect finger placement, because while you can stop and redo while you’re at the range, that doesn’t work for competition or (more importantly) defensive situations. My whole point is where you put your finger when you’re not paying attention to where you put your finger is where your finger is probably going to be when you need to shoot straight the most. That’s where you should be practicing from.

Why you’re flinching only with the P320? I don’t know. The grips are fairly round, my guess is you tend to grip it all around instead of front and back only. The 1911 is slim and easier to focus on front/back, the P365 is rather flat too. The XD, maybe the grip safety helps push you to front/back.

It sucks you already sent it back to SIG...this is precisely why they won’t pay shipping unless there is an issue: they’d go broke paying for shipping for people that blame the gun prematurely.

And just because it’s been mentioned, many (too many) feel that sights should be adjusted to suit your style. There’s a logic to that, but what happens when you actually do things right? Your shots will be off in the other direction. It’s better to fix the real problem: the end user.

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Originally posted by NMDave:
Thanks to oncewas was for starting the thread and everyone responding to him with tips. I just read through each post and found some wisdom in all of them... some more than others and some what not to do. A lot of them brought back some basic training from my earlier years. One in particular that came to mind was while trying to determine what was causing me to drop left, my buddy light loaded a mag for the 1911 I was shooting with 6 rounds. When I took what I thought would be round 7, I flinched... “there’s your sign”

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
I'm sure several have already suggested the same thing I am going to.... finger on trigger placement....

I would have never thought it... but two years ago I bought a Sig P320 compact with the Romeo sight.... great shooting pistol but sometimes my rounds would hit a few inches to the left at say about 20ft.... so I decided to concentrate and shoot slow.... what I saw with that little dot is that if my finger was not perfectly centered on the trigger it would move just a tad to the left. I could not see this with just iron sights....

Few things I've learned.... Grip: leave thumbs loose... push with firing hand and pull with the other... then get your booger hook set just right.

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Originally posted by NMDave:
awesome... you made me laugh out loud. Never heard a trigger finger called a booger hook. Good one and thanks for the early morning chuckle