Recoil Management and Trigger Manipulation

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“The purpose of the drill is to practice recoil management and trigger manipulation.”

https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/jim-cirillo-s-1-2-3-6-drill/

Sometimes we take things for granted. A more thorough explanation would have been that for each shot, the shooter does four things in sequence.

  • Acquire an acceptable sight picture
  • Press the trigger smoothly and fire
  • Reset the trigger in recoil while the sights are returning to the target
  • Take up the slack in the trigger as the sights settle on the target, and finally
  • When an acceptable sight picture is acquired, smoothly press the trigger to fire again

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