Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Sight Picture, Alignment & Trigger Control eShort by David Fessenden

Author:David Fessenden [Fessenden, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3447-7
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Glossary

ACTION: The moving parts contained within the frame of a firearm that allow it to cycle and be fired.

AFTER ACTION DRILL: Movements executed by the shooter after he has fired his weapon during a gun fight that will provide for improved safety and protection against the possibility of any additional lethal attacks.

AUTOLOADER: A pistol that is capable of reloading itself with the cycling of the slide. Also called a SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL or simply SEMIAUTO.

CONCEALMENT: A barrier that will hide the shooter from view but not necessarily from any shots fired into that barrier.

BACKSTRAP: The rear vertical portion of the frame of a pistol or revolver that lies between the stock panels.

BARREL: The rifled metal tube through which the bullet travels when the shot breaks.

BORE: The open inside portion of the barrel.

BREAK THE SHOT: The act of firing the weapon.

CARTRIDGE: A complete, unfired round. It contains the case, primer, powder and bullet (projectile).

CENTERFIRE: A cartridge with the primer centered in the base of the case.

CHAMBER: The open rear of the barrel into which the cartridge is placed prior to being fired.

CHAMBER CHECK: The act of easing the slide back approximately ¼” to expose the presence of a cartridge, thus determining that the weapon is either empty or loaded.

CONTROLLED PAIR: Two sighted shots fired at the intended target, each with a distinct, conscious sight picture.

COVER: A barrier that will protect you from any shots fired at you.

CROSS-EYED DOMINANT: The condition that occurs when your dominant firing side eye and your firing-side hand are opposite from one another. Example; Dominant eye is your right eye, firing-side hand is your left hand.

CYCLE OF OPERATION: The total function of a pistol from shot break, ejection of empty cartridge, stripping and loading of new full cartridge into the chamber and locking of slide into battery. For a revolver, it involves breaking the shot, rotation of the cylinder and alignment of barrel and the next chamber.

CYLINDER: The elongated, round metal part in the centerline of the revolver frame that holds cartridges in the individual chambers. On a double action revolver, the cylinder advances a round one chamber at a time with each press of the trigger.

DECOCKING LEVER: The lever on many semiautomatics that allows the shooter to safely lower the hammer down on the firing pin from the cocked position.

DOUBLE ACTION: The action of a firearm where the trigger mechanism can both cock the hammer and then release the hammer to strike the firing pin by simply pressing the trigger all the way to the rear.

DOUBLE TAP: The act of firing two quick shots at your intended target with only one sight picture.

DRY PRACTICE: The act of practicing gun handling and marksmanship techniques without any ammunition in the weapon.

EMERGENCY RELOAD: An operational technique to reload a fresh magazine into the weapon after it has been fired empty to slide lock.

EJECTOR: A frame mounted metal part that the spent cartridge case strikes on its travel to the rear. The case is then ejected out the ejection port opening in the slide.

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