Posted: 9/9/2010 12:54:34 PM EDT
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I've been shooting my pistol a lot lately and doing a lot of reading on how you're supposed to pull the trigger for the "surprise break" and all of that. I do well enough when I shoot, put most of it in the black on the standard targets at the range when I go. Here's my problem, I have absolutely no clue how this "surprise break" work on the trigger. It's an XD9 for reference if that matters.
If I pull it slowly, I can feel the resistance as it comes to break, there's no surprise there. Also, it causes my hand to shake a lot when it happens if I go really slowly. If I pull it too fast, I can see the front sight move. It's just really frustrating cause Idk if the surprise break is something I need someone to explain to me in person or what. Any suggestions? |
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The idea is to hold on target with a constant sight picture. Your focus being on the front sight (rear sight and target blurred) then pick up the slack on the trigger. Once you feel resistance on the trigger, you continue to press but with the least amount of pressure possible (as if you are trying to squeeze the trigger as slowly as humanly possible) when the gun fires it should be "almost" a surprise. Now for the question......are you training for bulls eye shooting?. If so then I understand you doing this, but suggest you get a better bulls eye gun. If on the other hand your training for gun fighting....then your wasting your time mate….You should be focusing on stroking the trigger for the first shot and then training to learn the reset for multiple shots! Hope this helps Cheers www.floridafirearmstraining.com |
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When you are trying to make the most accurate shot possible, the surprise break is what you want. You don't have to be shooting a bullseye match to need to make a head shot at 15 yards.
The surprise break doesn't have to take 5 seconds between the finger getting on the trigger and the shot going off. All it means is that you are pressing, pressing pressing and boom, the gun goes off without you forcing it. As opposed to pressing, crush through, this gun is shooting NOW. If your XD trigger stacks, you need to train yourself to press steadily though that stacking trigger to get a surprise break. Dry fire the shit out of it. If you want to practice shooting a surprise break slowly, shoot off of the bench or a bag. That will let you learn the surprise break without having the gun wobble. Once you understand how to do it you can speed it up. Shooting pistols at an advanced level requires you to understand what kind of trigger pulls are required for different distances and targets. Making perfect little groups at 3 yards targets won't win any matches or gun fights. Missing small targets at distance because you are snatching the trigger trying to shoot .20 splits will have the same effect. Gringop |
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Not really training for anything in particular. I grew up shooting rifles and shotguns, but not pistols. I recently took a concealed carry class here in town and that was part of it. Thanks for the advice. The trigger works the same on all of them. Focus on front sight, smoothly press the trigger all the way to the rear and hold it there while maintaining sight picture (that is the follow through part) then reset for next shot. 1 shot 2 sight pictures 2 shots 3 sight pictures and so on. Brian |