The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Guns: A Green Light Shooting Book by Chad Shellabarger

Author:Chad Shellabarger [Shellabarger, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Chad Shellabarger
Published: 2015-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The Grip

Remember to keep those three golden rules we talked about earlier in mind here. Be aware of your muzzle, keep your finger off the trigger, and treat the gun like it’s loaded. With that in mind, let’s talk about the proper way to grip a handgun when shooting at the range.

First, a few “don’ts”. Don’t copy what you see in movies. When you’re holding the gun in your dominant hand, don’t use your weak hand to cup the bottom of the gun. Don’t wrap your weak hand around your dominant hand and place your weak thumb behind the back of the gun. I promise, it won’t turn out how you want it to.

Instead, here’s what you’re going to do: Using your dominant hand, get a firm grasp on the gun. Push your hand up as high as you possibly can on the grip. On the back of a semi-auto handgun, beneath the slide, there is usually a little plastic tail that protects the webbing of your hand from the slide. Push up as high into that as possible. The higher your hands are on the gun, the less recoil you’ll feel. Next, take your weak hand and wrap your fingers around the fingers of your dominant hand. All four fingers of your weak hand should now be resting on the 4 fingers of your dominant. Now, you’re going to point both thumbs forward toward the muzzle. Your dominant thumb should rest on top of your weak thumb. This should also force the butt of your weak palm to fit on the grip of the gun right between your dominant palm and your fingers. This grip is usually called “thumbs forward”. This is by far one of the most widely accepted professional handgun grips and is used by law enforcement, military, and competition shooters alike. Some people make slight adjustments to this grip which you can do after some experimentation but very rarely do they stray from these basic concepts.

It should be said that you really want to avoid a death grip while shooting. I keep my dominant hand relatively relaxed so that I can pull the trigger straight back. We’ll go into the best trigger practices in a later chapter. My weak hand provides a lot of support as well as the position that my arms are in. Again, we’ll talk more about that in the stance section. For now, practice that grip and get a good feel for how the gun should fit in your hands. Let’s jump into rifle grips next.

When holding a rifle there are only a few things you want to really keep in mind. First, take your dominant hand and get a good solid grip on the pistol grip (if it’s an AR-15 style body), or if it’s a hunting style gun, place your dominant hand behind the trigger just in reach of your forefinger pulling the trigger. Next you want to pull the stock of the gun into your shoulder and secure it there.

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