Prepping the trigger?

Bob Sanders

Bob Sanders

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I didn't want to hijack Feegee's thread, but I think they were getting somewhere I need to know about. What is this prepping the trigger thing? Honestly, I have no conscious thought of pulling the trigger. I do have a trigger job on my XDm, ant the take up and reset is very short, compared to original. Every so often I hear someone say they missed the reset and wondered what they were talking about. Pretty sure I just pull, let go, and pull again. Is this something I need to work into my practice routines?
 
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You want to let off the trigger and then pull all the slack out of it while the gun is still recoiling and the sights are still settling back down. It's a good idea to pay for some instruction in this area. You are going to AD/ND for a while until you learn how to do it, and then you're still going to do it every once in a while after you learn it.
 
This video explains it well I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qqX1lieGIAM&t=48
(skip to 00:48, tried to link it at t=48 but BS's URL parsing strikes again)

Listening to Seeklander explain stuff I can't believe that he isn't an engineer.

Steve McGinley said:
TDSA, Marshall "Slack Out!"
Gun "Bang"
Me "dang, I did it again"
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Marshall "SLACK OUT!"
Gun "Bang"
Poopgiggle "Sorry"
Marshall "WHAT ARE YOU APOLOGIZING FOR?"
 
Thanks! Next live fire practice, I'm going to concentrate on what I'm actually doing with my trigger.
 
Sorry bob for the hijack.

Like Austin said, practicing it will help tremendously.

You squeeze off a couple extra shot getting used to the feel but once you get it, itll be a ah ha moment.

That damn trigger will jack up everything if you dont pull/press/squeeze it right :)
 
Everything in that video was in Seeklanders competition class I attended. I have also taken ap1 and I felt like I got more out of Seeklanders class. One thing I liked about it was he was able to explain and prove his way of doing things vs saying do it this way because I said this is how it should be done. However TDSA has several great instructors many of which are my friends and they have turned out a lot of shooters better than me! They are two very different ways of getting to the same place, I suggest you take them both and see what style fits you best.
 
mike cyrwus said:
you all dont need a competition class, you want AP1

http://www.tdsatulsa.com/courses.php?course=ACP1
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Jake Burki said:
Everything in that video was in Seeklanders competition class I attended. I have also taken ap1 and I felt like I got more out of Seeklanders class. One thing I liked about it was he was able to explain and prove his way of doing things vs saying do it this way because I said this is how it should be done. However TDSA has several great instructors many of which are my friends and they have turned out a lot of shooters better than me! They are two very different ways of getting to the same place, I suggest you take them both and see what style fits you best.
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I don't care what the class is. I just brought up the TDSA competition class because there was some discussion of doing that at some point in the past. We should just have some kind of all-BS class or training event.
 
Negative ghost rider. I think the variables were in the favor of the RO class...timing, cost, ammo amount etc etc.

Im sure we could get mike here for a class. I hear his 2014 schedule is open.
 
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