Gripping a Glock

[ABNAK]

I bought my first Glock (a 21, soon followed by a 23) in 1993. Have had and still do have several since then.

My question is this: does anyone actually use the squared-off front of the trigger guard for placing the index finger of the support hand on? I wish Glock would round those off, but apparently someone must use it for that purpose, right?

[Nocaster]

No.

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[SiGfever]

Never had.

[Circle_10]

I seem to recall being told by the guy who taught my CCW course back in 2004 that the squared off trigger guard was for shooting while bracing the pistol against a barricade.

[dwhitehorne]

I seem to recall being told by the guy who taught my CCW course back in 2004 that the squared off trigger guard was for shooting while bracing the pistol against a barricade.

I've had this mentioned in a couple of classes also. David

[MountainRaven]

I would like to see evidence to support the using-hooked-trigger-guard-to-shoot-off-a-barricade theory.

Everything I've seen suggests that the hook came about because the best scoring action pistol shooters in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s were wrapping their support-side index finger around the front of the trigger. The evidence supporting this is that most of the pistols introduced in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s had those hooks while pistols introduced before that period and since that period have mostly not - plus there are plenty of images of said top action pistol shooters wrapping their support hand index fingers around the front of the trigger guard, often on 1911s modified to have hooked or squared-off trigger guards. (The only really significant exceptions I can think of are H&Ks - but the Mk23's trigger guard is too long for anyone to be able to use in the index finger in front of trigger guard mode and was intended to be used in conjunction with a laser aiming module. The USPs and HK45s that followed did not. And the VPs, P2000s, and P30s all have contours designed to match up with SureFire X200/300s and other WMLs.)

[dwhitehorne]

I went through FLETC in 1994 with a Glock 17. This is where I was introduced to thumbs up shooting. I was also taught to wrap my support hand index finger around the front of the trigger guard. Went back to FLETC in 1998 and they were really pushing rolling the support hand forward and pointing the support thumb straight forward along the slide. Finger around the trigger guard was not mentioned by then. David

[Arik]

What difference does rounded of make?

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[ABNAK]

What difference does rounded of make?

Makes it ever-so-slightly easier to conceal. Not a huge amount of course, but every little bit helps. Rounded off blends better than squared off, especially since almost no one uses it like I asked in the OP.

[Wake27]

I’ve never heard of anyone who knows what they’re doing advocate using the trigger guard in any sense. I also don’t see how it’d be easier to conceal, its in the holster.


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