Ok, but if you want, try squaring your body (hips and shoulders) to the target. You can drop your strong foot back a little if you want. Flex your knees and bend at the waist like in the pictures above. This will give you more stability and range of motion. Plus, recoil control. Just a suggestion to take as you will. I'm not a know it all. That's why I used pictures of people much better than I. Good luck and wish you all the best with your son.
I appreciate any advice. I know you know your stuff.
I've always just shot informally, I'd like to actually be 'trained'....... Someday.....
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Ok, but if you want, try squaring your body (hips and shoulders) to the target. You can drop your strong foot back a little if you want. Flex your knees and bend at the waist like in the pictures above. This will give you more stability and range of motion. Plus, recoil control. Just a suggestion to take as you will. I'm not a know it all. That's why I used pictures of people much better than I. Good luck and wish you all the best with your son.
Weaver stance was all the rage at the Air Force qualification course back when I still needed to keep a M9 currency for deployments. I bucked the training and got hounded endlessly by the instructors for staying square to the target during their sweeps in the qualification shoot. Then I shot expert - 5 years in a row - and they started to leave me alone. To this day, I simply cannot, and will not, warm up to a Weaver stance. To each their own, but for me it just feels wrong and never enhanced anything in regimen.
Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.
Weaver stance was all the rage at the Air Force qualification course back when I still needed to keep a M9 currency for deployments. I bucked the training and got hounded endlessly by the instructors for staying square to the target during their sweeps in the qualification shoot. Then I shot expert - 5 years in a row - and they started to leave me alone. To this day, I simply cannot, and will not, warm up to a Weaver stance. To each their own, but for me it just feels wrong and never enhanced anything in regimen.
They also teach the "cup and saucer" grip, including to women who can't even get their hand all the way around the M9 grip. I've taught 3 people the "thumbs forward" grip and isosceles stance and saw their scores increase by the end of the range session.
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I appreciate any advice. I know you know your stuff.
I've always just shot informally, I'd like to actually be 'trained'....... Someday.....
Weaver stance was all the rage at the Air Force qualification course back when I still needed to keep a M9 currency for deployments. I bucked the training and got hounded endlessly by the instructors for staying square to the target during their sweeps in the qualification shoot. Then I shot expert - 5 years in a row - and they started to leave me alone. To this day, I simply cannot, and will not, warm up to a Weaver stance. To each their own, but for me it just feels wrong and never enhanced anything in regimen.
They also teach the "cup and saucer" grip, including to women who can't even get their hand all the way around the M9 grip. I've taught 3 people the "thumbs forward" grip and isosceles stance and saw their scores increase by the end of the range session.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
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