Stop Pinning the Trigger | Handgun Skills

Here’s another lesson to shoot good guns even gooder: stop pinning or trapping the trigger! GunMag Warehouse’s Daniel Shaw discusses why it’s better to switch to the ‘Trigger Prep Technique’ instead of using the common technique known as pinning or trapping the trigger. 

Stop pinning the trigger
Pinning or trapping the trigger is the least efficient method for trigger reset.

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In the video below, Shaw explains why the Trigger Prep Technique is better and demonstrates it on the range.


Stop pinning the trigger. While the gun is cycling, get off the trigger, and then back to the wall again.
While the gun is cycling, get off the trigger, and then back to the wall again.

For Rapid Precision: Stop Pinning the Trigger

Tigger technique matters if you’re looking for shooting precision and speed.

Shaw says, “When its time to start shooting faster, we have got to drop the trap technique.” He points out that champion shooters look like they’re slapping the trigger because, in a way, they are. They’re slapping to the wall.

“What happens is, that gun is fired, the gun cycles, and while it’s cycling they’re getting off the trigger and back to the wall again. When they’re able to do that really fast, the finger doesn’t even usually leave contact with the trigger…they’re getting off the trigger and then back to the wall while the gun’s cycling.”

Give this technique a try next time you get to the range and let us know what you think.

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Stephanie Kimmell is the firstborn daughter of Missouri's Pecan King, worthy scion of a Vietnam veteran sailor turned mad engineer-orchardist-inventor-genius. With a BA in technical writing, she freelances as a writer and editor. A Zymurgist greatly interested in the decoction of fermented barley and hops, she is in many ways a modern amalgam of Esther Hobart Morris, Rebecca Boone, and Nellie Bly. She hunts, fishes, butchers, and cooks most anything. When not editing or writing, she makes soaps and salves, spins wool, and occasionally makes cheese from cows she milked herself. Kimmell is a driven epistemophilic who loves live music and all sorts of beer.

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