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    Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how double action vs. single action revolver shooting techniques are affected by grip and finger position.
    Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how double action vs. single action revolver shooting techniques are affected by grip and finger position.
    Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how double action vs. single action revolver shooting techniques are affected by grip and finger position.
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    Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how double action vs. single action revolver shooting techniques are affected by grip and finger position.

    By Grant Cunningham

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    In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham shows the proper grasp, finger position and trigger control for fast, accurate double action revolver shooting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440233951
    Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how double action vs. single action revolver shooting techniques are affected by grip and finger position.
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    Grant Cunningham

    Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.

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      Gun Digest’s Double Action Trigger Concealed Carry eShort - Grant Cunningham

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      Concealed Carry: Double Action Trigger

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      Bring the pad of the support hand thumb down on top of the shooting hand’s thumbnail. Adjust as necessary to get the specified contact points and make a mental note of how everything feels. It’s that feeling that you’ll want to replicate each time you grasp the gun.

      Believe it or not, there was a time in the history of the double action revolver when it was widely supposed that it couldn’t be shot accurately. Over the years we’ve come to learn that it just isn’t true, and today many instructors say that learning to shoot a double action is the key to shooting all handguns well.

      That’s what this chapter’s about. Shooting a double action revolver well is all about mastering the heavy, long trigger travel. I’ve often said that the revolver is the easiest gun to shoot, but the most difficult to shoot well. The trigger is the reason, but it’s far from impossible to conquer. It’s just a matter of paying attention to the basics.

      If you’ve read my introduction, you’ll remember the story about the falling plates. There is a lesson to be learned, and I hope you’ll take it to heart: you have to commit yourself to shooting double action. It’s all too easy to allow yourself to cock the gun to single action in order to make a shot you’ve been missing in double action. Resist that temptation! Every time you take the easy way out you stop your forward progress. Even at the end of a practice session, don’t succumb to the idea that you need to leave on a high.

      The only way to master double action is to always shoot in double action.

      It starts with grasp

      Think about this: a six-shot revolver might weigh something in the neighborhood of 38 ounces or so; that’s about 2-1/4 pounds. The trigger weight on that gun will typically be something around 12 pounds. It doesn’t take a math whiz to realize that the shooting hand will need to control about 9-3/4 pounds of excess force, and it needs to do so over a travel of perhaps 3/4 of an inch.

      If the grasp isn’t solid, that extra 9-3/4 pounds of force is going to push the gun around in the hand(s). The grasp has to be strong

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