I’ve been unhappy with my shooting recently.

It’s degraded.

Could it be due to lack of trigger time? Certainly.

Could it be due to my weightlifting? Yes I’ve thought this because my grip strength has changed dramatically and so I am gripping/squeezing the gun differently, what feels like “squeezing this much” isn’t the same grip pressure as before and so I’m having to refind what works.

Could it be due to switching to the M&P? I think so too. In fact just the other day I was noticing that I need more trigger finger on there than I previously thought. It’s a feel thing about the trigger under my finger. I’m not getting enough and thus I’m pressing the trigger “wrong”. A little more finger ends up working better.

But in the end I don’t know exactly what’s causing it, just that it’s there.

So I’ve been trying to dry fire more religiously, if nothing else just working on the press-out.

And then last night, something strange happened.

I guess because my eyes were tired, closing one eye had fatigued my eyes enough that things were getting blurry. So I started keeping both eyes open.

And it worked.

I’ve tried keeping both eyes open before, but it just hasn’t worked with my eyes. I’d try and try again, but it never clicked. I tried the things like putting some scotch tape over one eye on my glasses, but that never worked out and carried over to no tape.

But for some reason last night, I could dry fire with both eyes open.

I haven’t tried yet again this morning (still waking up), but I’m going to keep working at this. If I can drill it into my brain to have both eyes open, that would be awesome.