shooting with weak hand

Do you practice with your weak hand?

  • Yes, I practice

    Votes: 69 77.5%

  • No, there is no need

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • No, I should

    Votes: 19 21.3%
  • Total voters
    89
I'm going to make an observation. I am not much of a shooter. I did steel shoots last summer and fall. I've been doing IPSC this summer. I've had half-a-dozen firearms classes (three of which were Defensive Pistol Tactics I, II, and III). I've also been a member of a gun range for about 10 years (three different ranges over the course of a decade). I'm at the range about 6-8 times a month practicing handgun skills. The focus on handguns is only a couple years old... I used to shoot mostly rifles and shotties, but when I got the permit to carry, my interest in handgun skills changed dramatically. The range I've been at for the last three years is outdoors and private. that means we can do holster work.

The ONLY time I ever see someone shooting off-hand is when the course of fire calls for it in a competition. I'm not calling the poll-answerers liars. I'm just saying that it's amazing how I can be on the firing line (the real one - not here) next to several hundred shooters over the course of a year and never see anyone practice off-hand. Then when there's a poll, it's a huge majority.

I ain't sayin' - I'm just sayin'.
 
I think that's cause the members on here (or any other firearm's forum) are not your average shooters. We tend to take more interest in it and therefore take it to a higher level....ie. better, more training than the average shooter.
 
That's a really good point. I hadn't thought of it that way.

Anybody else learn how to DRAW from 3 o'clock with off-hand? It's so awkward I get depressed when I practice it. Also, if you're going to learn to shoot off-hand, you might as well learn to do mag changes and slide-racks one-handed and off-hand.
 
I do practice drawing from offside from my BUG rig, a crossdraw rig carried at 7 O'clock. Also practice drawing off handed from pocket rig. Not as much as I practice with my primary, but I do get it done every so often.:cool:
 
I do. I have a BIL who is a former B Patrol and he was wounded in the forearm of his dominant hand and was able to shoot back with his other hand.
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It's not uncommon to be shot in the gunhand or arm.

That alone should be enough incentive to practice with either hand. My agencies Qual Course has limited support hand shooting required, but when we get back to the 25 Yard Barricade I shoot left handed on the left side barricade and right handed on the right side barricade.

I've also been known to qualify with the left hand one year, and right hand the next. Granted, I'm not the "norm", I even carry off duty, let alone carry a BUG off duty too. :)

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Same same, qualification waaay weak on weak hand shooting, I do it on my own. And carry plus a BUG off duty, too. I am very weird according to my co-workers.
 
I do, and I also practice (with snap caps) reloading with my weak hand ONLY.
Also clearing a failure with one hand.
From a friend that has been in harms way I learned one important fact. When you get into a situation where instincts take over and time is limited, your training will take over, so practice with what you carry, how you carry and practice every possible way.
 
Typing one handed!

Just had carpal tunnel surgery on the right last Friday. I have shot with my left before, but for the next few weeks the left is all I got. My son and shooting partner is looking forward to out scoring ol dad, we will see about that.
 
i shot left handed once. it was really award but i actually shot better left handed. very weird shooting lefty. i'll have to try it a few more times i may have just got lucky.
 
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