Shooting to the left?

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I seemed to have developed a tendency to shoot my hand guns (all of them) slightly to the left of the bulls eye.
I'm shooting right handed. Any tips, Ideas why?
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Recoil anticipation is typically low left, aka flinching (for a right handed shooter as yourself)

With an empty gun, do a dry fire exercise by putting a dime or a penny on top of the slide, near the front sight and press the trigger without it falling off.

You can also mix in some dummy rounds in the magazine at random and see if youre flinching when you hit the dummy round.

If thats not it, maybe your rear sight has moved a little and needs to be adjusted.??
 
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We talking two hand grip? Right handed left handed? Same eye or cross dominant? sights or dots? Hard to diagnose without witnessing or having a pic of the grip and trigger contact. :beer:
 
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I can’t recommend the Mantis TitanX enough.

It’s been eye opening seeing how bad my trigger pull was. I always hated laser training, having to rack the slide every trigger pull, but the resetting trigger on this one fixes that and it’s optics cut. Here’s mine..
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I do the same. Low and to the left with every gun except a 1911 and my Ruger lcpII. I think it’s trigger pull. I’ve thought of making my carry gun’s trigger lighter to help with this. Shoot a 1911 with light straight trigger pull and then go with a striker fired and see what happens.
I have no clue why I shoot my lcp so well.
 
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Also look at sizing of you hand. Your break should be a 90’bend of you finger. Example are man type hands in a G43; break well beyond 90’ inputs low left input. Two shot groups back to rest; check grip, relax it, reengage. Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Accurate.

Sizing isn’t a limitation. Hogue has a great selection of slide on grips for polymers
 
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Saltwater60 said:
I do the same. Low and to the left with every gun except a 1911 and my Ruger lcpII. I think it’s trigger pull. I’ve thought of making my carry gun’s trigger lighter to help with this. Shoot a 1911 with light straight trigger pull and then go with a striker fired and see what happens.
I have no clue why I shoot my lcp so well.
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The LCP actually has a longer (trigger to beaver) grip which extends you hand back a little making that 90’ point more natural.
 
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This has been happening with all my hand gun shooting so I'm not blaming one gun or configuration. I went out yesterday after trying Celts coin on the slide thing with the 1911 and my browning .22 auto. Damn I really had to go back to basics to get acceptable results. Somehow or another I did develop a slight flinch which with a hand gun really gets magnified down range. After that discovery and reexamining my whole posture in addressing this thing I realized that I somehow evolved into putting the finger too far onto the trigger like dwa12479 mentioned. I shot much better after addressing these two issues. I am no longer consistently shooting to the left, which is a great relief, I abhor doing anything to the left.
Pretty basic stuff that gets over looked, thank you fellows!
Robin
 
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