Yup, not sure how I missed that, you said it plain as day.There were 3 targets in this classifier...
If it costs nothing, that would make perfect sense. I'm still sort of wrestling with conflicting information and experience and trying to make sense of the apparent contradictions.Why wait until you hit that point? Get every fraction of a second you can at every level, even the non-competing level. Especially if it isn't going to cost you anything and I don't see how switching to that method will cost anywhere else.
So on the one hand I see people like Rob Leatham shooting light & short trigger guns using a trigger slap approach and getting very good results. But then just yesterday I watched footage of Rob shooting in a revolver match and he was clearly keeping his finger in contact with the trigger the whole time--as were the other top competitors.
I watch Jerry Miculek talking about how he tries to never lose contact with the trigger and watch his videos which show that is how he actually shoots. Another guy who seems to know a thing or two about DA style (longer, heavier pull) triggers.
So I try to put that together and what I get is that the trigger slap technique seems to work well with light and short triggers, but that even the guys who do seem to use it for light and short triggers go back to some sort of a trigger reset technique when shooting DA style triggers.
So input from someone who claims to be able to shoot a trigger slap technique on a DA style trigger is interesting. The first thing to figure out is what kind of speed is possible with a DA style trigger using this technique without sacrificing accuracy.