I went to the range with a buddy over the weekend and finally tracked down the cause of a chronic grouping issue I have with all handguns (always low and to the left), but never with long guns. I was able to ID the left-ward drift myself (I kept rolling my wrists a smidge left), but the consistent downward pattern stymied me. I thought I was just over-adjusting for recoil on follow-up shots, but standing off to the side my buddy quickly noticed that it wasn't an issue with recoil compensation...but me literally pointing the muzzle lower a moment before every squeeze of the trigger. After he pointed it out I dry-fired a couple rounds while looking at the gun instead of the target and it was blindingly obvious now that I was looking for it. I'd start to squeeze the trigger --> muzzle drops --> firing pin goes click.
I've gone through waaaaay too much ammo trying to figure this out. I should have asked a buddy for a second set of eyes sooner.
I went to the range with a buddy over the weekend and finally tracked down the cause of a chronic grouping issue I have with all handguns (always low and to the left), but never with long guns. I was able to ID the left-ward drift myself (I kept rolling my wrists a smidge left), but the consistent downward pattern stymied me. I thought I was just over-adjusting for recoil on follow-up shots, but standing off to the side my buddy quickly noticed that it wasn't an issue with recoil compensation...but me literally pointing the muzzle lower a moment before every squeeze of the trigger. After he pointed it out I dry-fired a couple rounds while looking at the gun instead of the target and it was blindingly obvious now that I was looking for it. I'd start to squeeze the trigger --> muzzle drops --> firing pin goes click.
I've gone through waaaaay too much ammo trying to figure this out. I should have asked a buddy for a second set of eyes sooner.
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