Trigger control: Ensuring that the trigger moves smoothly, straight to the rear so that when the gun fires, it’s a surprise to the shooter. With lots of correct practice, this can be done very quickly.
EXAMPLE: When I’m on the firing line at a Steel Challenge match or any other match where both speed and accuracy are needed, I’m thinking about several things – my foot placement and proper balance, getting a perfect grip on my gun in the holster, a smooth, snappy draw, my grip on the gun and sight alignment – but the main thing I’m concerned with is trigger control. I can screw up any of those other things a little, but if I yank the trigger, I’m gonna miss.
Follow-through: Your goal should be to try to hold the sights on the target without blinking, even after the shot breaks. Understand that you won’t be able to do that with a centerfire handgun, but you must try. The gun’s going to move and your sights are going to leave the target, but if you don’t see where the sights are when the shot breaks, you won’t be able to …..
Call the shot: The instant the shot breaks, you must have an image in your mind of exactly were the sights were in relation to the target. If you don’t know where the sights were, that means you probably closed your eyes, which means you knew when the gun was going to fire, which means your trigger control sucked and you yanked the trigger.
Dry-firing is the best way to acquire these skills. Shooting a high-quality pellet pistol, which has zero recoil and makes almost no noise and is super cheap to shoot is the best way to perfect these skills. I like the Daisy 717, but there are others just as good.