MatthewVanitas
Member
Greetings,
Ran the Search, got threads of cheap jokes, but will endeavor to ask anyway.
In an attempt to avoid overplayed, tired-out gangsta jokes, I'll summarize them here briefly so that anyone making said jokes obviously didn't read the first post in the thread: "foo', break yo'self!", Birdman Sideways Glock Sights, "dis is my gat", etc. ad infinitum ad nauseum.
Seriously, I was reading a post stating that it's easier to rack a pistol with the slide tilted slightly to one's weak side, as that's a stronger hand position than the straight up-and-down used for most shooting. While dry firing my new RAMI (thanks to the THR Sales Board and clark98ut), I noted that it does feel pretty comfortable to cock one's wrist ever so slightly, so the gun running 11-5 vice 12-6, seen from the shooter's perspective. Not the full-on 9-3 seen in 'hood movies, but just a slight left tilt in my right paw.
I read an old Gun Digest issue that covered some of these points, which also mentioned that some known-distance rifle shooters deliberately cant their scopes (using a level IIRC to maintain a constant cant), because their body is more stable in that slight cant.
So, has anyone had any success with this position, or has grave warnings aside from the fact that sight adjustments will be tricky with windage being 90% a horizontal adjustment and 10% an elevation adjustment, etc. ?
I was very, very pleasantly surprised at the lack of worn-out, beaten-dead-horse jokes on recent threads about pearlite grips. Hopefully we can maintain this trend. Most of those jokes were funny the 1st through 36th retelling, but have worn stale over the last decade or so.
To all those with good insights on shooting hand position, much appreciated as always.
-MV
Ran the Search, got threads of cheap jokes, but will endeavor to ask anyway.
In an attempt to avoid overplayed, tired-out gangsta jokes, I'll summarize them here briefly so that anyone making said jokes obviously didn't read the first post in the thread: "foo', break yo'self!", Birdman Sideways Glock Sights, "dis is my gat", etc. ad infinitum ad nauseum.
Seriously, I was reading a post stating that it's easier to rack a pistol with the slide tilted slightly to one's weak side, as that's a stronger hand position than the straight up-and-down used for most shooting. While dry firing my new RAMI (thanks to the THR Sales Board and clark98ut), I noted that it does feel pretty comfortable to cock one's wrist ever so slightly, so the gun running 11-5 vice 12-6, seen from the shooter's perspective. Not the full-on 9-3 seen in 'hood movies, but just a slight left tilt in my right paw.
I read an old Gun Digest issue that covered some of these points, which also mentioned that some known-distance rifle shooters deliberately cant their scopes (using a level IIRC to maintain a constant cant), because their body is more stable in that slight cant.
So, has anyone had any success with this position, or has grave warnings aside from the fact that sight adjustments will be tricky with windage being 90% a horizontal adjustment and 10% an elevation adjustment, etc. ?
I was very, very pleasantly surprised at the lack of worn-out, beaten-dead-horse jokes on recent threads about pearlite grips. Hopefully we can maintain this trend. Most of those jokes were funny the 1st through 36th retelling, but have worn stale over the last decade or so.
To all those with good insights on shooting hand position, much appreciated as always.
-MV