Gun control is using both hands. 🙂

Or perhaps better, gun control is having as much of both hands on the gun as possible.

I remembered something else I observed a lot of in yesterday’s classes.

Many people understood putting both hands on the gun, but how those hands were put on the gun would vary greatly. It all depended where and how you learned how to shoot a pistol, and thus what habits you needed to break. 🙂

One key is having as much of both hands actually on the gun, as much palm and skin in contact with the grip/frame as possible. Most people don’t have a problem with this with their dominant/trigger hand. But the weak hand would have all sorts of issues. Some people would “teacup” hold (meaning the butt of the gun rested in the palm of their hand, as if the saucer for a teacup), which does nothing to help manage recoil. Some would get the support hand on the side of the gun, but it would barely be in contact with the gun. Typically this was due to thumb problems. They might tuck the dominant hand’s thumb against the frame then their support hand palm would be over the dominant thumb. Or the thumbs might be weaved together. Or the thumbs might be tucked back revolver-style. There would be all manner of ways, but the end result was the same: very little of the support hand was actually in contact with the gun.

The trouble with this? That support hand does most of your gripping of the gun! So you need to grip and grip tightly with that hand, and the more that palm and skin is actually in contact with the gun the more possible grip surface and friction there is against the gun recoiling and moving to help control it.

Watch this great Todd Jarrett video:

He explains a lot of detail about good grip and stance.

That “other hand” isn’t just there to be there, it has a lot of purpose. Get its palm high on the grips, get lots of skin in contact with grip, get the thumbs out of the way, and have that hand squeeze and actually grip the gun. There’s more to “good grip” than that, but seeing all the “lack of contact” with that hand in classes yesterday and I wanted to comment on it.