Proper Trigger Control

Here's a very insightful piece from the blog Loadout Room explaining a problem many of us have never considered. Here's the Cliff's Notes version:

When a firearms instructor shows a new shooter the sight picture diagram, it is critical they explain that this is a Platonic ideal.  The shooter will never see that static image.  Frequently, the shooter feels that, as they briefly see the perfect sight picture in the diagram, they must “freeze” it.  They use the trigger like the shutter button on a camera.  This is ultimately self defeating.  You can’t pull the trigger fast enough to catch the image.  The result is a trigger jerk which moves the barrel off the target.

 Just read the whole thing.

- Redneck