Looking for suggestions - Easy trigger pull and light long g

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Re: Looking for suggestions - Easy trigger pull and light long g

Postby ree on Tue May 24, 2011 9:41 pm

gyrfalcon wrote:This person is probably having issues with the recoil/noise/impulse of the firearm and the trigger weight has nothing to do with it. If you can open a door the trigger pull on a firearm shouldn't be a problem.

People without good control of individual fingers can manage to do a lot, such as open doors, drive cars, even write. You don't need joint level control to do those things. Shooting a gun conventionally requires one to manipulate individual fingers. An inability to do so, hardly indicates a "mental problem" with shooting a gun, just a mechanics problem.

futbol79,
How outside the box have you tried to get her to think? Pulling the trigger with the middle finger, the ring finger, two fingers, pinky even? Doing that with the left hand? Pulling the trigger via arm movement instead of finger movement??

I don't know how disabled she is, but don't feel that she has to do things the normal way in order to do them. So long as she can use a gun safely, and get a satisfactory degree of accuracy, who cares about her technique.

I've got a bit of first hand experience helping a person who has extremely limited use of one hand. That person does just fine with some alternative techniques. Unfortunately, most wiseguys at the range who open their mouth too much would tell that person "you're doing it wrong." But for that person, it's what works, if a bit unorthodox.
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