Trigger Finger Techniques

Don't get in the mindset of just hitting a drill and not scanning. After a drill take a look around for anything that needs to be shot.

Sprout shows diagnostic techniques related to Law Enforcement. In this drill Sprout demonstrates how to torque the gun by grabbing the upper side portions and torque the gun up and push back so the student (Britt) does not fight the torque and push back. If the student fights instruct them to not be reactive.
A second issue is where the student goes "mush" and looses their positive control.
Basically don't contract more muscles or less during recoil.
A second drill is flipping the muzzle up and back and doing so very gently at first and working up the force so the student is acclimated and gets apathetic to recoil.

There are numerous techniques on how to draw a gun but in this video Sprout discusses some basic principles of minimizing unnecessary movement. Basically any unnecessary movement such as lifting the shoulder, dropping the shoulder and re-lifting the shoulder, etcetera. From a relaxed position an officer wants to drive their fingertips to the gun, defeat the retention and the gun as fluidly as possible. Remember to reengage the retention devise when re-holstering to be sure you are training defeating the retention in a consistent manner. The first phase is to draw while you are stationary but the progression off that is to draw and take a step to the right and to the left.

In this a shooter must have trigger finger discipline where when not shooting the trigger finger comes off the trigger outside of the trigger guard and goes along the frame or the slide of the gun. This means that trigger finger is generally pointed straight parallel to the muzzle of the gun and outside the trigger guard completely. The reason we have the trigger outside the trigger guard is if for some reason the shooter were to reactively grip the gun with all their fingers the trigger finger will sympathetically respond and could get into the trigger guard, press the trigger and unintentionally send a round. Therefore, shooters absolutely have to rain the skill set of getting this finger off the trigger when not actively engaging in target. Muzzle awareness is paramount. A shooter has to be aware where the gun is pointed at all times.

A brief discussion of some coaching points regarding trigger mechanics.

All the other shooting skillsets of stance, grip, sight alignment and the movement elements of power, explosiveness, balance….  all of these mean nothing without trigger control.  Our trigger mechanics are the last link in the chain to ensure we can make our shot.