Shooting woes

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Roland Thunder

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I have been shooting my Kahr PM9 a lot at the range trying to get used to it. I just bought it about 3 weeks ago and I love the gun and love shooting it. However I am consistently off with my shooting. Most of my groups are down and to the left. I figure the sights either are not adjusted correctly or, according to the guy that gives shooting lessons at the range, I am anticipating the recoil and that's what causes it. Assuming the latter is the reason, how can I correct this. I am right handed and my right eye is the dominant eye. Both eyes are about 20/40 (20/20 with glasses).
 
Just for the heck of it, . . . put a little more finger into the shooting. I have a gun or two where I cannot use the pad, . . . get your results.

When I go in to the crack between the first two digits, . . . back on target.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
Have you shot the pistol from a rest to see if the sights are on? If the sights are okay….

For a right hander that shoots low left, you are either jerking the trigger, or tightening your fingers while squeezing the trigger. Dry fire and concentrating on the basic fundamentals should correct it.
 
One of the most popular ways of shooting a handgun is to get the sights lined up, close both eyes and yank the trigger. Often the shot goes low-left for a right handed shooter.

The interesting thing is, you can easily do this so fast that you have no idea you've done it. You think you controlled the trigger properly. But you didn't.

Get someone who you know to be a good pistol shooter to try the gun. If he can group where the sights point, get him to work with you on trigger control, follow-through and calling the shot.
 
Dryfire.

Dime drill, dime laid on front sight, present and dryfire without disturbing the dime.

If you flinch once during live fire, stop and dryfire.

Where was your front sight when the gun fired? Make it your goal to see it. If you didn't see a muzzle flash you involuntarily bliked as the gun fired. Look for it.

Pull the trigger without moving the sights, that's all there is to it, now you have a lifetime to master that.

I agree that trigger in the first joint of the finger will probably suit you, especially with that small gun.

While only a 9mm the PM-9 is small, light and loud, you may be reacting to that, consider getting a heavier longer barrelled gun to get some quality practice with.
 
Dryfire.
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When I dryfire the PM9, the trigger is limp (no click) unless I have racked the slide back. So, after I pull the slide back, the first trigger pull has resistance and clicks when I reach the break point. After that, unless I pull the slide back again, the trigger is limp (no resistance or break point). This means that if I want to feel the break point and have the trigger click, I have to re-rack the slide after every trigger pull. Should I do this or dry fire with no resistance.
 
Fire and rack the slide every time. You dont need to put the dime on every time but watch the sights and when you can see that they are staying on what you aim at put the dime on and see if it falls..
 
print some of these out... or search for "shooting correction chart"

They help quite a bit IMHO

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