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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Try to get a hold of some dummy rounds, snap caps if you must. Mix them in with your range ammo and keep your eyes closed when grabbing a handful of bullets to load your mags. Watch how badly you flinch when you drop the hammer and the gun doesn't go bang. If you are expecting a live round and don't know you have a dummy in the pipe, you'll be amazed. Eliminating that flinch is the key to becoming a handgun marksman. Sometimes you can watch folks around you flinching after they pull the trigger and the slide is locked back and they're out of ammo. When I learned to rid myself of this flinch, my accuracy increased exponentially.
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Rick is dead on. If you have a gun that is o.k. to dry fire and don't have a dummy round , start by placing a spent casing on the top of the gun, near the front sight. Aiming at the target, smoothly press the trigger. If that casing jumps, falls off or flinches you are
anticipating the trigger pull. When you fire the gun, think about letting it go off and while this sounds odd, it should almost suprise you a little that it went off.
Skip all the weaver, foot forward, back blah blah to begin with. Start with isoceles: Stand both feet in line together about a foot and a half apart and square off with the target. Get just ever so slightly on the balls of your feet, very slight bend to the knees, bend your torso forward and lean in towards the target, shoulders dropped, arms driving the weapon out to the target, do not drop your head but bring the weapon up into your line of sight.
Here is a very competent shooter (law enforcement guy one of the ones that trained me); notice how his head remains level when drawing from the holster and how the weapon is brought into his line of sight.
http://www.superdave716.com/video/superdave.wmv