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When I go practice with my pistol at the range, I notice my hand shakes sometimes and it gives me pretty bad groups at 15 yard (3 - 4 inches). What is the best way to eliminate this? Should I lift more weights to beef up the forearm? I don't think this is a gripping issue since I always make sure I am not squeezing the life out of the pistol with my strong hand.
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Well, working on arm strength certainly can't hurt. I get the shakes when handgun shooting sometimes, but all it takes is about 30 rounds of shooting for me to settle in and calm down.Then I do much better.
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Lay off the Jenkem on range daysOriginally posted by harmoniumsOriginally posted by bwieseComment
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I find that heavy-recoiling handguns give me the shakes - mostly my P3AT, but other light handguns with powerful loads will do it. I wait until the end of the range session to shoot them, or they mess up my groups.
Aside from that, practicing and a little light weight work help a lot, as others suggested. I keep 5 and 10 pound weights at my desk at work, and will practice various stances with them when I get a chance.
Likewise, caffiene can contribute. I also find that taking a break partway through the range session helps calm things down.sigpic
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try to practice breathing and slow shooting before you use live ammo.sigpic
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Massad Ayoob taught me this technique:
Make fist as hard as you can while slowly pushing your arms down and slowly exhale. When you relax your hands they are now much steadier. Try it!Comment
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It's nice that you want to criticize, but this is the intarweb and advice is probably worth what it cost...People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.
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Nevermind. I misread the question.Comment
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