Best Tips You Received to Improve Handgun Accuracy?

[Seeed]

I'm looking to improve my handgun accuracy and thus form, I guess, maybe like a golf swing? For me, I'm inconsistent, sometimes I do well, sometimes not. I have a feeling it's a combination of trigger pull and grip perhaps. What are some of the most impactful tips you received while trying to improve your consistency outside of just practice? Form? Hands? Angle? Grip? I'm just focused on 7yd not speed and really trying to analyze each action better hoping the sum is a better result and consistent.

 

[BubbaLa88]

Trigger press, everything being equal, trigger control has the most effect, I still find myself going back to basics.

 

[RustVendor]

For a single shot? Put less input into the gun. Honestly I think shooting faster really helps because a lot of times people are just flinching in anticipation because they are taking so damn long to take the shot and the anxiety builds up

 

[Diabolus]

Get some Captains of Crush and your grip and accuracy will improve, dry firing is great too.

 

[irongunner]

Get some Captains of Crush and your grip and accuracy will improve, dry firing is great too.

For those who don't know, Captains of Crush is a grip/hand strengthener.

What is your reasoning on how this would improve pistol accuracy? (I agree just curious)

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Join up with competitive shooters. You can watch all the folks that are really good at it, then pick their brains.

Initially for me, it was letting the trigger only out to the reset, but this doesn't allow you to shoot as fast, so now I'm slapping the F out of the trigger most of the time and only riding the reset for distance shots.

Dry fire is the big game changer, find a routine that you like to follow, make sure it translates into live fire, repeat.

 

[seanjq]

Best advice is to be careful who you learn from. Do some research on who the champions of the sport are (eg: Ben Stoeger, Taran Butler etc). See if there’s anything you can apply from what they do to what you do. See what works and what doesn’t.
Otherwise, train with a goal in mind. Don’t just throw lead down range for no reason. Bullets are expensive.

 

[WSS01]

Proper grip brought my group size down exponentially.

 

[dvoncock]

Something that helped me was loading one snap cap in random order into the magazine. If the muzzle dips or jerks, I immediately do three to four dry fires on the snap cap. My CCW instructor taught me this one. Apparently LAPD has used this technique at its academy for years.

 

[RustyIron]

I'm looking to improve my handgun accuracy and thus form,

Advice that I received? Let's talk about you. I've not seen you shoot, so any advice is going to be somewhat generic. My first advice is to check your trigger pull and grip by dry firing. Put the sight on the target, pull the trigger, and continue watching the sights. If they moved when you pulled the trigger, you screwed it up. Don't screw it up next time.

When live firing, don't think you're going to line up the sights and sit there hovering over the target. Know when you're going to be on target and pull the trigger accordingly. And when I say pull the trigger, I'm not talking about some wishy-washy exercise where you gently feel for every tenth millimeter of travel. Pull it or don't. There is no in between.

 

[Seeed]

Proper grip brought my group size down exponentially.

And what is proper grip from your experience?

 

[miles888]

This video helped me go from over 5” to about 2.25” at 25 yards. Still working on the g26 can’t seem to figure that one out.

 

[Seeed]

Yeah im all over youtube already. Looking for actual feedback from members here.

 

[joefrank64k]

Greymanmaxxing

 

[miles888]

Yeah im all over youtube already. Looking for actual feedback from members here.

You asked for tips and the video is 5 tips. My feedback is I watched the video and I shoot better after implementing it.

 

[WSS01]

And what is proper grip from your experience?

the two dogs humping method.

 

[Seeed]

You asked for tips and the video is 5 tips. My feedback is I watched the video and I shoot better after implementing it.

ahh sorry, ok. thought you were just gooling something and slapping it in here. my bad

 

[ikeo1]

Yeah im all over youtube already. Looking for actual feedback from members here.

I think one of the best ways is to practice at 25 yards or move closer until you can keep everything in A zone. Then increase your cadence, with 3 cameras One side profile of you, one headcam, and one at the target for your hits you can use 2 if you can see your hits and you can diagnose it from far.

You have to see which one of the fundamentals breaks down and then drill that. Sights, grip, trigger.

 

[miles888]

ahh sorry, ok. thought you were just gooling something and slapping it in here. my bad

The part where he talks about maximizing leverage between your thumb and pinky did a lot for me.

Some good stuff about elbow placement as well. Just maximizing leverage and friction in the grip.

Quick video but haven’t seen anyone else speak on it

 

[Seeed]

I think one of the best ways is to practice at 25 yards or move closer until you can keep everything in A zone. Then increase your cadence, with 3 cameras One side profile of you, one headcam, and one at the target for your hits you can use 2 if you can see your hits and you can diagnose it from far.

You have to see which one of the fundamentals breaks down and then drill that. Sights, grip, trigger.

Hmmm This is way more technical than I have the ability to do. Will try to stick with more basic approaches I guess if I can for now?