Shooting to the left?

[Robin]

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?
Robin

 

[Celt]

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.??

 

[Robin]

Awesome Celt, I'll give it a try! Thanks!!
Robin

 

[RedBreast21]

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.

 

[dwa12479]

I tend to do that when i let my finger get too far up on the trigger.

I have to remind myself to press the trigger with the pad of the finger tip. Dont yank the trigger with the bend of the first knuckle.

 

[Parzival]

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..

 

[togmaster]

Here's a chart that will help diagnose your problem.

 

[Saltwater60]

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.

 

[Brawny71]

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

 

[Brawny71]

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.

The LCP actually has a longer (trigger to beaver) grip which extends you hand back a little making that 90’ point more natural.

 

[Brawny71]

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[Robin]

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

 

[GTN]

I’ve found when I start shooting left that I’m gripping the gun to much with my right hand. So back off on right hand and tighten the left hand

 

[Robin]

Yeah, I struggle with that one too! Too many things to remember!
Robin

 

[fresch]

You can watch how finger placement will move the barrel, just a tip on the tip.

 

[Bustedknees]

This problem can be fixed by simply putting more lead down range . Sometimes deer walk right into the path of my stray bullets.

 

[TopShot]

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?
Robin

Some good advice above.
1.) Mostly trigger finger placement.
Experiment with trigger on 1st crease, middle of pad, tip of pad of finger.
2.) Secondly grip, position and strength.
Clamp support hand down, but not too tight with dominate hand, otherwise you push the gun left when pulling the trigger.
3.) Dry fire.
If you have a red dot or laser watch the results on the wall.
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Once you start to improve, Live Fire to anticipate the boom and recoil.
C.B.

 

[Robin]

Here's a chart that will help diagnose your problem.

At the end of the day, I still have to deal with this target though.
Robin

 

[Criticalt]

 

[tom_89]

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?
Robin

Shooting left is usually a trigger control issue. You might be jerking the trigger or squeezing your whole hand when you pull. Try putting more of your finger on the trigger or use a rest to see if the gun still shoots left. If it does not, it is you, not the gun.

 

[TopShot]

As Celt said, dry fire with a small coin on the front sight.
Try using an empty 9mm casing.
When you can keep pull the trigger without it falling off try it with
the dominant hand only and then try it with the support hand only.
C.B.

 

[Steal2B]

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'm a Mantis customer (our son bought them as gifts for mom & dad) but the TitanX is Glock based so I still use Mantis on my carry / range guns and am waiting patiently for the promised SIG / HK / Walther variants of the TitanX (which seems bargain priced for Glock fans)