cayugad

If I go all the way back to high school and back to my ROTC rifle team training I can still remember getting chewed out by the Sargent about where I was putting my trigger finger on the trigger.

I had been shooting 22 for several thousand years before high scool ROTC and I was really good at it - but apparently not good enough for the rifle team - they changed several things that I thought I knew. Will not even mention about breathing or thinking to much.

Our instructor wanted the trigger finger to be placed on the trigger near the end of the pad - not really the end of the finger but beyond the middle of the pad. Hooking the trigger in the joint was discouraged as you have no feeling for the trigger. Going to the end of the finger did not allow for even pressure on the face of the trigger.

His words were do not pull the trigger... apply pressure and feel to the trigger and be consistent. His example would be he would lay a 22 shell on the hardwood floor ask you to bend over and pick it. with just the thumb and fore finger.... where the shell fit in your finger is where the trigger should fit. It is tactile sensitive at that point...

Be interesting to see what Lee says... he was a big time bench shooter - competeted for a lot of years in that field.

Me I am just a back yard mechanic that likes to shoot...