Doc Holliday

Most of the rounds I fired downrange from my SIG today were placed on the left side of the target. Anybody have any idea what I am doing wrong with my technique. I think I remember seeing a chart one time that would trouble shoot your technique according to where your rounds are falling on your target. I do know one thing- At least I was consistent! Any help or comments would be appreciated.

__________________
Give Doc the shotgun.
They'll be less apt to get nervous if he's on the street howitzer.

Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

I have two guns, one for each of ya.

Blackhawk6

Try here:

http://www.combatcarry.com/vbulletin...gnostic+target

Also, PM sent.

steve_db

here's another analysis target source.
about halfway down - click on analysis target, or below that there is one for southpaws if you're a lefty like me.
http://www.makarov.com/funstuff.html

rstickle

If you are right handed, and they were low-left, you were probably jerking the trigger.

__________________
Rick

EOD - Initial success or total failure

mstarn

Doc go to the following link:

http://bullseyepistol.com/training.htm

Fantastic site.

Also read:

http://bullseyepistol.com/amucover.htm

I reread it every so often. Really helps to correct the problems that creep into my shooting.

__________________
Mark
SC CWP Instructor
NC CCH Instructor
NRA Certified Instructor

PackerfanXD

That is my first assumption. Some guys' XDs have needed back sight adjustment but it's almost always trigger control issues.

__________________
The wealthiest nation in the world with the mightiest army man has ever assembled could not stop them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJhD-72v958

Free Ramos and Campion

Doc Holliday

Well they were all middle left which indicated too much or too little trigger pressure.

__________________
Give Doc the shotgun.
They'll be less apt to get nervous if he's on the street howitzer.

Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

I have two guns, one for each of ya.

Doc Holliday

Hey great stuff. I am printing off a copy of the manual. I have fired thousands of rounds and I have decent combat accuracy but I still have much to learn GRASSHOPPER!

__________________
Give Doc the shotgun.
They'll be less apt to get nervous if he's on the street howitzer.

Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

I have two guns, one for each of ya.

dr_cmg

Doc, I read all the diagnosis and not a one mentioned with I discovered was causing me to shoot consistently to the left. It is related to the too much trigger finger problem. I tried using less trigger finger and got the same results. Then at home that evening I was examining my grip and discovered that the reason I had too much finger on the trigger to begin with. I was not putting the grip of the pistol right into the pocket formed between the thumb and forefinger. I was letting my hand slide around to the right of the grip just slightly so that more finger was on the trigger. When I hold the pistol correctl there is not way for me to get too much finger on the trigger. The too much finger was a symptom of the problem, but not the problem itself.

I discovered that I was putting the first round right on target and the shots were drifting left for the next 2 or 3 and then they were right on top of each other 1.5 to 2 inches from point of aim. I was gripping the pistol correctly initially and thus the first shot was on target. I was then letting the pistol turn in my hand and in two or three shots it reached the point where it could go no further and I was firing the rest of the mag from that position.

Since I discovered this we have made two trips to the range. It is not as easy to correct as I initially though because my thumb is week right in that point. I am trying to improve the strength of the joint there. I have been very careful and worked to maintain the grip and have gotten good results. I now recognize immediately when a shot hits if I have allow the gun to turn. Now I will pause in the firing and regrip the pistol. This helps, but I am working on making the proper grip the natural way I grip and on the thumb to keep it from allowing the drift.

Don't know that this is in anyway related to your problem, but none of the resourses I found really made a great improvement on my shooting even though the analysis was partially correct. Correcting the symptom of the problem did very little to actually correct the problem.

__________________
George

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein

one eyed fatman