Lots of internet wisdom about the common low left phenomenon for right handed shooters. I tried changing my finger position, but strengthening my off hand grip seemed to make the difference for me. Lots of folks think its a Glock problem, but I had it worse with a 229.
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I'm one of the ninety eight percent. My misses at a steel shoot the other night were left (and low) with a G34. Yesterday at the range on paper, grouping tended toward left of center, as usual, and it's not the pistol. It's me.
When I shot the P320, though, everything was right on the bullseye, but a bit high. I put the bullseye on top of the sight, and everything went on the bullseye. Speed up the shooting a bit, the grouping opened up, and some of it went low left again. A shooter issue. Slow down, take time, and everything went in a ragged hole; that's the pistol. Everything else, was me.
Check your sights, too. I've had a few that were drifted to one side.
Let someone else shoot the pistol. Fire it off a rest. See what it's actually doing. Experiment with finger placement, and dry fire a lot.
Originally posted by sns3guppy: Check your sights, too. I've had a few that were drifted to one side.
To expand on this...
Re-center the sights, if they're noticeably off. (Possible, though unlikely.)
But don't drift the sights to try to adjust for shooter error. Correct the shooter error. And as mentioned, almost all cases of shooting low/left are shooter error, caused by some dysfunction in the shooter's grip/stance/sight alignment/trigger pull.