If you want to be a better shooter, then work on improving each of the elements explained below. Start with the one that needs the most attention, identify the worst and improve it! Then work on others.
No matter what your weapon is: carbine, pistol, submachine gun, rifle or shotgun, you will follow these same elements for everything.
- Service and alignment
The first element is to draw and bring the weapon up with the sights aligned and slow down when it reaches the target area. This slowing down, which will now call it “pause,” should occur in the target area. This pause should be long enough to allow the projectile to hit the target in the area you predetermined.
- Targeted
The second element is to analyze what needs to be seen to perform the trigger. In general shooting, we think of one type of sight: focus on the target mass and leave the target strap and target slightly out of focus.
- Trigger action
The third element of the shot is to isolate the action of the trigger finger (and the trigger itself); control the direction, speed, intensity and duration of this force. The faster you move your finger, there is a tendency to engage the other fingers with pressure, which will turn the weapon sideways as you press the trigger.
Learning to stay relaxed and isolate the trigger using the right technique is one of the most valuable skills you can learn.
- Indentation
The fourth element is to let the weapon act, or rather accept its retreat. Keep the area around the diaphragm relaxed while you shoot. Relax behind your elbows. Learning to let the gun act is much harder than it sounds. To do so effectively, you must be physically and mentally prepared to let the setback happen without consciously reacting to it. This has a lot to do with how you control your balance and the weapon.
- Shooting
If you are not “calling” your shots, you are not paying attention to this important factor or shooting faster than you can see.
- Continuity
The sixth element is continuity. Hold the gun in position and allow the projectile to leave the barrel without disturbing its trajectory improperly. Then quickly release the trigger, allow the weapon to return to its position, reposition the trigger finger and prepare for the next shot.
Has the magazine got empty? Then use magazine quick loaders to get it ready to insert in gun.
