Technique of pulling the trigger

In either of these cases, the index finger is placed on the trigger by folding on the joint between the first and second phalanges. This is an obligatory condition, confirmed by centuries of practice. If you do not do this, but press the trigger with the first or second finger pads, the rifle will not be slightly lowered when you descend, but to stray to the right or to the left. The direction of pressure on the descent must be strictly along the axis of the barrel bore. In order to make it easier and the hand of the shooting hand does not "start" at the descent, you need to carry out the correct grip of the box with a brush of the shooting hand.

 

Different shooters have different lengths of fingers. Therefore, the position of the brush on the neck of the box should be chosen so that the elongated but not strained index finger with its first joint naturally lies on the trigger. This position of the brush on the butt needs to be remembered, fixed and made permanent for a particular shooter. Changing the position of the hand of the shooting hand leads to an unbalance of the trigger forces and uncontrolled breaks.

 

Starting from its main joint, the shooting finger should not touch the neck of the box tightly. Touching the shooting finger in this place during its work on the descent will necessarily cause minor weapon displacements and detachments in the most unpredictable directions.

 

When firing from combat automatic systems with a pistol grip, the principle of fixing a shooting hand is somewhat different. It is similar to the grip of the handle when firing a combat pistol. When working with a pistol grip, the first condition that must be strictly observed is the inadmissibility of touching the rifle's index finger with the index finger. Between the shooting finger, the butt and the receiver of the weapon there should be a backlash, as well as when working with the necklace of the magazine rifle. The thumb of the right hand should be firmly pressed against the handle surface. Its pressure on the latter occurs strictly perpendicular to its plane. The middle and ring fingers should press their first pads perpendicularly to the surface of the handle. The task of the little finger - just lie on the handle and do not interfere. "Inclusion" little finger necessarily "will include" the shoulder and pull the rifle somewhere to the side. The pistol grip should be tight, with medium force "planted" in the palm of the top down, so that there is no backlash between the weapon and the upper surface of the brush. The trigger should rest on the middle finger. This position of the hand on the rifle butt should remember - this is the position of fixing the palm on the pistol grip. If the pistol grip is covered, the hand should not be lowered, since the fixation point is lost. The hand, which is at different heights relative to the trigger, will inevitably provoke the operation of the shooting finger in different directions along the vertical, and this will inevitably affect the accuracy of the shooting.

 

When shooting from a magazine rifle in the prone position and from the knee, the right hand should rest on the neck of the bed and in no case should not participate in homing the weapon. In lying and kneeling positions, the weapon is guided by a properly oriented workpiece with the rifle support on the belt and the left arm. In the standing position, one way or another, the right hand is forced to engage in the retention of the weapon. As with lying and knee fabrications, the rifle is guided by the correct orientation of a stable, balanced workpiece. The role of the right hand is to tighten the butt in the shoulder. At the same time, it can with average force "attach" to the weapon from right to left.

The descents of combat systems are very uncomfortable and unaccustomed to shooters-athletes. On different rifles of one system they are different: with broaches, "ladder", tight run. They are such in the manufacture, and can not be regulated. The working surfaces of the whisper and the action of the trigger for increasing wear resistance are cemented. When they are grinded by the nafile, the layer of cement is removed, the wear of friction surfaces increases, and at the most inopportune moment the rifle begins to fail. What is good in sports practice is unacceptable in combat use.

 

With very inconvenient descents of a combat weapon, the shooter somehow has to fight "one on one". If the rifle has a very long and lingering descent, without warning (a small extra effort before the trigger is detached from the sear), before the aiming delay of the breath, the stroke must be preselected at least halfway. This will save the shooter a lot of nervous energy, physical strength, and most importantly - the time allowed by the circumstances of the events for the shot. When aiming, the "selected" descent is "preliminarily compressed" at the required time. It's not difficult to unravel this - every shooter will quickly get used to his weapons, his balance and the features of the descent. Of course, you first need to practice idle.

 

Now attention! We proceed to the most important element of the trigger release. Remember: at the moment of "squeezing" the descent, its stroke should be smooth and constant, despite the "roughness" of the friction mechanism. For this, the force applied by the finger on the descent must be constant. The shooting finger should feel this effort, know this effort on its own, "apart from the head" and remember it with muscle memory! With this known effort, the shooting finger must self-trigger on the descent.

 

To the index finger knew the trigger force and the degree of its application, the trigger process should be made visible to the shooter. To do this, the firing finger is already wearing a well-known conical long paper cap, which plays the role of a pointer. The shooter, holding the rifle in front of him and not aiming anywhere, chooses an unnecessary (free) course of descent and, when he "presses" the descent, looks at the movements of the tip of the cap, as on the arrow of the device.

 

With a correct, uniform application of the same magnitude of effort to lower the movement of the cap will be uniform, if incorrect, with the application of varying strength - a jumplike. The movement of the pointer allows you to make the finger effort on the descent clear for the shooter. When the power sensations are conjoined on the finger with their clarity, remembering them with muscle memory is very effective. In the subconsciousness of the arrow a kind of "beacon" of muscular sensations is formed, and at the necessary moment the group of "shooting muscles" automatically, unconsciously leads to this "beacon" and works much better than under the control of consciousness. This is important for the sniper. There is a saying: "The shooter thinks with his eyes." A trained eye shooter "unleashes" an original shot program stored in the subconscious, which is triggered in the prescribed time period.