{"id":4913,"date":"2016-05-23T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:31:17","slug":"learning-double-action-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/learning-double-action-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning the Double Action\/Single Action Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/category\/double-action-pistols\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4961 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/da-banner-3.jpg\" alt=\"Double Action Pistols Series\" width=\"750\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/da-banner-3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/da-banner-3-600x99.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/da-banner-3-350x58.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>As expected, feedback\u00a0has been divided on my last couple of videos about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/rise-fall-double-action-semi-auto\/\" target=\"_blank\">double action semi-autos<\/a>. There has actually been more far support than I had expected for the idea of using traditional double action autos for self-defense, but the critics have been vocal as well.\u00a0Most of them assert that they would rather use a pistol with a trigger press that is consistent from one shot to the next. I can hardly blame anyone for this preference. It certainly <em>can<\/em> be easier to master a striker fired or single action pistol (though I would argue that&#8217;s not always the case\u00a0&#8212; any pistol with a lousy trigger is a nightmare to use,\u00a0such as the Glocks with 12 pound\u00a0triggers the NYPD are forced to use).<\/p> <p>However, becoming proficient with the double action\/single action trigger is certainly doable, especially with the help\u00a0of a competent instructor. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/why-switched-double-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned last week<\/a>, it can be difficult to find an instructor who understands how to teach the techniques required to run a double action properly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langdontactical.com\">Ernest Langdon<\/a> is one of\u00a0the most well-known instructors with a background specializing in double action pistols. He offers several classes each year all over the US, and I highly recommend his courses if you&#8217;re looking to become a better pistol shooter (regardless of what kind of gun you&#8217;re using).<\/p> <p>To hold you over until you&#8217;re able to train with Ernest or another reputable instructor,\u00a0I&#8217;ve shared a few tips for shooting double actions in the video below. Some of these tips come straight from Ernest and the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistol-training.com\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Green<\/a>, another champion of DA\/SA pistols, but a lot of these techniques are actually a product of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/category\/wheel-gun-wednesday\/\">focus on revolvers<\/a> last year, so there might be something in there for you wheel gun fans, too.<\/p> <h2><strong>Learning the Double Action\/Single Action Trigger<\/strong><\/h2> <p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bU4v5i5c42k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Full video transcript below:<\/p> <hr \/> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s pretty easy to make a case for double action pistols as a safer option than most other types of handguns, and really, the only reason they aren\u2019t more popular is because they are challenging to shoot well. It all comes down to trigger control. You have to learn the double action trigger and then smoothly transition to the single action. In reality, it\u2019s not as difficult as we are often led to believe. It just requires some intentional practice. \u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s only been about six months since I started the transition from primarily using striker fired pistols to using double actions for all of my personal self-defense guns, so I am by no means an expert. But I feel like I\u2019ve started to get the hang of it, and I&#8217;ve had some good teachers, so I\u2019m going to share a few tips that have helped me out with shooting double actions over the last few months.<\/span><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sig P229 Legion\" width=\"1200\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1-1024x511.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Sig-P229-Legion-1-350x175.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first challenge is the double action trigger itself. In order to master this, you have to actually shoot the gun double action. Some people are so intimidated by the longer and heavier trigger pull that they never actually shoot the gun this way. It\u2019s possible for you to go to the range and just rack in the first round and now your\u00a0hammer is cocked, and you could fire the whole magazine single action and never actually have to fire double action.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if you own a double action pistol for self-defense then\u00a0you have to have the discipline to decock the pistol and shoot both triggers so you can learn to run the gun the way you would if you had to draw it and shoot to defend your life. I decock the pistol after every string of fire and every drill and I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">never<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thumb cock the hammer. Whenever the gun comes off target, I decock. This is a good habit to get into anyway just for the sake of safety, but it also forces you to have to shoot that double action trigger.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to accurate double action shots is smooth, consistent pressure on the trigger. The best analogy I\u2019ve heard for this comes from\u00a0Wayne Dobbs, and he said the trigger stroke should be like paddling a canoe. You can do it fast or you can do it slow, but once the paddle is in the water, it\u2019s a smooth stroke all the way through.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that means, for close range self-defense type shooting, we have\u00a0to avoid staging the trigger. That\u2019s where you get your sights lined up and pull the trigger part of the way but that&#8217;s messed up your sights, so you&#8217;ve got to clean up the sight picture and as soon as you see what you want to see,\u00a0you yank the trigger. That doesn\u2019t usually work out very well. We have to learn how to press the trigger smoothly\u00a0all the way through without stopping and without disturbing the sights.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a couple of things that can help out with that. First, don\u2019t be afraid to put\u00a0a little more finger on the trigger. A lot of us were taught to shoot using the first pad of our trigger finger, and that can work just fine for some people on certain guns. But with a double action pistol, sometimes you need more leverage on the trigger to get a smooth press. For me, using the first crease of my index finger on the trigger instead of the pad has really helped out a lot. What you don\u2019t want to is use so much trigger finger that you&#8217;re wrapping it around and you curl the tip of the finger inward. That\u2019s going to steer the gun\u00a0off target every time.<\/span><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1.jpg\" alt=\"trigger finger placement\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/finger-placement-1-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter what part of the finger you use on the trigger, the pressure needs to go\u00a0straight to the rear so you don\u2019t disturb the sights. So I&#8217;ve just got a\u00a0slight bend in my trigger\u00a0finger, but not so much that I\u2019m putting sideways pressure on the trigger.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other thing you can try is to increase your grip pressure. I talked about this in detail in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/how-to-shoot-small-pistols-better\/\">video about how to shoot small pistols better<\/a>.\u00a0If you aren\u2019t really squeezing the life out of the gun, or if you\u2019re changing the amount of grip pressure you apply as your trigger finger moves, that\u2019s going to hurt your recoil control, but also your ability to have a consistent trigger press from shot to shot.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dry practice at home can really help out a lot with this, especially when you&#8217;re in the phase of\u00a0figuring out a grip and trigger finger placement. It&#8217;s going to\u00a0be a little different for everybody. Just work at it until you figure out\u00a0a way to press the trigger without moving the gun.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you\u2019re comfortable with the double action shot and you&#8217;ve got a decent\u00a0draw stroke, you can start working on what\u2019s called <a href=\"http:\/\/pistol-training.com\/archives\/3899\" target=\"_blank\">the press-out<\/a>. That\u2019s a technique where you begin to press the trigger as the gun is moving to full\u00a0extension. Now that\u2019s a different video for another day, but I wanted to at least mention it because its a very\u00a0effective technique for using\u00a0double action pistols.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, now on to that transition\u00a0from double action to\u00a0single action. Again, I don\u2019t think this is nearly as difficult as it is often\u00a0made out to be, but there are some challenges to overcome. Even though that single action trigger is lighter and has a shorter length of travel than the double action, we can\u2019t treat it like it\u2019s just a light double action trigger pull. The\u00a0reset point is not in the same place we started the trigger press with the first shot &#8212; it only goes back part of the way. The trigger also has a different feel to it. It\u2019s not going to move in a smooth arc all the way through the trigger press. We\u2019ve got some slack or pre-travel and then hard resistance before the shot breaks.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can often lead to issues with trigger control so that even if that first double action shot is a hit, the single action shot after it can often get jerked off target.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of these issues is slapping the trigger. This is something we usually see with novice shooters. After the double action shot, they will bring their finger all the way off the trigger to the point where the trigger started and then just crash into the trigger and slap the snot out of it, and usually miss the target.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually, the remedy for this is to learn how to ride the reset. The double action pistol has two different trigger pulls, but the reset point is always the same after every shot. Ideally, you&#8217;re going to fire that first shot and keep your finger in constant contact with the trigger while it resets to that same point every time. And then as soon as it resets you can start taking out the slack and get ready for that next shot and press the trigger again and that way you&#8217;re never slapping the trigger off target.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, it\u2019s possible to over-correct for this and you end up with the problem of pinning the trigger. This is something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langdontactical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ernest Langdon<\/a> talked about at length when I attended one of his classes a few weeks ago. And it doesn\u2019t just affect double actions &#8212; almost everybody in that class was doing it at least a little bit, no matter what kind of gun they were shooting. A lot of shooters are getting way too preoccupied with riding the reset, to the point that &#8212; the way Ernest puts it is that, \u201cyou are firing the gun based on what you feel instead of what you see.\u201d So we should be firing that\u00a0next shot when we see the sights are aligned. But instead, what a lot of us are doing is keeping the trigger pinned to the rear all the way through the recoil and then holding it there and doing this slow, intentional reset after every single shot.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result is that on a close up, wide open target where we should be able to run the trigger really fast, we\u2019re being slowed down by trying to ride the reset. \u00a0And then on a more distant target, when we get the sights lined up, we should be able to just press the trigger, but we&#8217;re having to hold the sights there for longer than we should because we have to reset\u00a0and press the trigger.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, we should be releasing the trigger right away. The instant the shot breaks, we can let the trigger reset and start taking out the slack so that when we see the sight picture we need to see, we can go ahead and fire again.<\/span><\/p><p><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4925 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta.jpg\" alt=\"Shooting double action\" width=\"1200\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/firing-beretta-350x209.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If that all sounds confusing to you, don\u2019t overthink it too much. The key is just to release the trigger quickly after the shot, but then keep your finger in constant contact with the trigger so you can press it again without slapping it.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of ways to practice the double to single action transition at the range. It can be really helpful to start off shooting\u00a0two shots at a time and just decocking in between each pair. I like to use small targets for this, like 2 inch circles with no time limit. And I\u2019ll start up close at about 3 yards and gradually work my way out to about 7 yards. Then I like to move to some drills that\u00a0incorporate speed and also vary the number of shots per string. So you could try <a href=\"http:\/\/pistol-training.com\/drills\/bill-drill-2\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Drill Version 2<\/a> &#8211; that\u2019s where you have an 8-inch target\u00a0at 7 yards with a shot timer. You go from the holster &#8212; you draw and fire one shot. Decock, reholster, draw, fire two shots. Then you do three, and then four, and then five. Then you total\u00a0up your time for all five strings and that is\u00a0your time to beat the next time you go out to the range.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you work at it, before you know it, you&#8217;ll be able to run a double action pistol at least as well as any striker fired gun, so get out to the range and practice.<\/span><\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, feedback\u00a0has been divided on my last couple of videos about double action semi-autos. 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