{"id":1690,"date":"2020-01-02T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ammoman.com\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:10:48","slug":"we-are-not-born-knowing-how-to-hold-a-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammoman.com\/blog\/we-are-not-born-knowing-how-to-hold-a-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Hold A Pistol Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Hold A Pistol<\/span><\/h1>\n

Ask almost any gun owner if they know how to shoot, and chances are, they\u2019ll say “yes.” The holes in their targets may say something different, but they\u2019ll say “yes” anyways. <\/span>Ask almost any pistol owner if they know how to hold a pistol, and they\u2019ll likewise say “yes.” <\/span>Based on what I saw on a recent trip to my local public pistol range, there are plenty of pistol owners who know how to pick up a pistol and put it in their hands, but precious few know how to hold a pistol in order to get consistent hits on target.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Gripping Story\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

There is a surprisingly large amount of information out there on how to hold a pistol. People have been writing on this subject since the invention of the modern handgun.\u00a0 In that time, conventional wisdom has shifted quite a bit. One-hand only grips, hip-shooting techniques that forego the use of sights in favor of speed, and other methods of getting your rounds on-target have come and gone. Even the Weaver stance<\/a>, a staple of Jeff Cooper\u2019s Modern Technique Of The Pistol, is fading from view as more and more trainers are moving towards the Modern Isosceles grip and stance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n