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Alright, let’s talk about how to grip the pistol. This is a SIRT gun, totally inert.
I’m still going to use good muzzle discipline while I’m working with the gun here.
Right hand shooters, you’re going to grasp the handle as high up in the backstrap as
you possibly can. You want to see a little of your hand meat bunch up there. You gotta
watch that the slide, as it reciprocates, doesn’t tear into your hand, but you want
to get as high as possible. You should have no space there.
You’re going to have the middle finger of your right-hand impact the trigger guard.
So again, no space there. That’s going to be uptight. Be thinking about friction. As
much friction as you can apply to the gun, the better, because you’re going to be able
to control it in recoil.
We’re are, right of the bat, going to say get rid of all of the old notions of, holding
it gently like a bird in your hand. Tight enough to keep it from flying away, but not
too tight to kill it. In pistol combat this is the opposite of marksmanship skills at
long range.
What we are trying to do is mash down on the gun and control it through multiple shot strings
done in some of our other videos.
So right-hand, up as high as possible. When we create the grip, we are going to point
the thumb up at the sky for a moment because we are exposing as much of the grip panel
as possible. We are going to take the left-hand, and we are going to extend the thumb forward.
What we are doing is creating a situation where as much of the support hand as possible
is contacting the grip panel. Notice, if I keep my and straight, now I’m not able to
contact any of this area of the gun.
You see this cup and tea saucer business, that doesn’t work.
We’re going to rotate the hand forward. We’re going to use our thumb to index forward
toward the target. Point it at the target and rotate the hand forward.
The index finger of that same hand goes under the trigger guard with as much contact and
friction as possible. And we are really going to press with this hand. I don’t want to
say that it should be uncomfortable, but if it’s not uncomfortable, you’re probably
not gripping it hard enough.
You’ll see the videos that we’ve done where we have a shot coming out every seven,
eight, nine tenths of a second and in order for that to happen we really need to mash
down on the gun. If we’re not, the gun is going to ride up, recoil, and we’ll shoot
over our target.
Tight with the right-hand. Tight with the left-hand. Thumbs point to the target. And
when the finger comes on the trigger, we’re going to use… the middle of that pad.
Everybody’s hands are different. I want you to try it like this and see what happens.
Don’t hook it in the crease. Don’t get to far out on the tip. Right in the middle
of the pad… and then you can press for a good clean shot.
When you’re doing dry fire practice, mash down on the gun. Don’t hold it limp. Hold
it like your shooting… and then you can actually press the trigger. You don’t need
a SIRT gun to do it. I’ve got a real gun here. The gun is empty. I’ve got my master
grip. And I can perform my dry fire practice.
You can see my knuckles as I’m doing this. They’re white. I’m squeezing. I’m holding
the gun. Every time you pick the gun up, do the same repetitive movements. So you’re
going to be programming your subconscious mind… to repeat that under duress.
So you’ll see the way my hands are moving. Every time, I’m coming back to the same
position. Got those thumbs index toward the target.
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We're out here on the range, and we're going to dissect, a little bit, how the gun reacts under recoil
with a good grip and a poor grip. So, we are working with our Glock 19 today.
The gun is empty and safe. We talked briefly about how we hold it. We are running a couple
cameras today, and a slow motion camera going as well.
So I’m going to load up. We’re going to watch what happens in recoil with a poor grip…
and what happens in recoil with a good grip. So I’m going to get my eyes and ears on here…
Here is the poor grip… I’m just holding the gun enough to keep it in my hands.
Now I’m going to do the same thing. I’m going to run four or five shots, with a proper grip.
I will also note, and we’ll try to get this on footage, that those last five shots are
basically touching on our target at five yards while those first several shots splayed up
at the top of the target.
Again, this is the loose grip. Watch the gun in recoil… and a good solid grip.
And, a good solid grip.
Again, we want as much contact with the gun as possible. We want to make sure our hands
are up, tight to the trigger guard. You don’t want to have any open spaces. Tight. Squeeze.
I don’t want to say “white knuckle it,” but if you’re not holding on to it good
you’re not going to be able to control the recoil.
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