Originally Posted by
Gutshot John
Uhm that part is actually correct. You're not going to control recoil by putting pressure on the sides.
That's not to say you're not touching the sides of the grip but most of your control won't come from the sides.
It's pretty basic physics....
Given that it's physics, just how does the support hand NOT clamp on the sides of the primary hand, given that the primary hand is taking up any space that the support hand might touch from the front and back? Matter cannot be in two places at once. That's also physics.
Primary hand does the fore-and-aft squeeze, support hand does the port-to-starboard squeeze (since that's all it can do from a physiological standpoint, anyway), which puts a box of support all the way around the butt of the gun and provides the anchor point for your support arm to provide the stabilization it may. Which is to the forward and lower part of the primary hand, locked in by one's fingers being bricked together, but the bulk of the pressure is on the sides.
There's variation in just HOW MUCH grip pressure an individual shooter might apply to the sides, but that's a matter of what the shooter gives them their best results.
Side-to-side pressure by the off-hand is a correct methodology for achieveing a secure grip on a handgun that assists with good recoil management.
Rancid, I'm with JW. I wouldn't call what that Kenobi was teaching to be ourtight wrong, but sounds strongly like niche-type shooting, for something very type-specific. I'm not too up on wheelguns; don't a lot of folks that still shoot those things cross their thumbs?
Last edited by JSantoro; 11-09-10 at 08:28.
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