[Skunkabilly]

Hi,

I was reading the post on picking a 1911 for your wife. I'm unmarried but teach my friends (all college students, mainly conservative Christians neutral about guns, gun control and the second amendment, but I'm trying to win them over) how to shoot.

What is followthrough? I read about teaching proper followthrough but not exactly sure what this means. So far I teach them safety, sight alignment, safety, trigger control, safety, proper handling, oh yeah, and safety.

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Jeff More
Irvine, PRC
All your AR-15 are belong to us!

 

[Skunkabilly]

Originally posted by dsk:
Follow-through is continuing your rearward press on the trigger and proper hold even after the shot has been fired. The reason is that the point of trigger release should be in the middle of a trained motion, not the end which would lead to jerking the trigger.

So what's the (incorrect) alternative, jsut tapping the trigger (uncontrolled) without regard to the workings of the trigger? So what I'm supposed to do (and teach!) is to smoothly pull the trigger back, hold it back until I regain my sight picture, then work the trigger reset, then smoothly pull again? Let me know if this makes sense, or should I clarify my terminology...?