I'll give that a shot at the range tomorrow. Thanks Scooter.Get you left hand higher up to fill the void to prevent accidental decocking. Then go out and buy an ambi safety so that if you do push down on the lever, the lever on the other side will hit your hand preventing accidental decocking.
I disagree. It's the MOST PROPER form if, that is, one plans to shoot very rapidly AND accurately simultaneously.Riding the safety is bad form. Don't do it.
Check out their gun too...1911 doesn't have a decocker which can be a problem for riding the safety on a HK with that option.I disagree. It's the MOST PROPER form if, that is, one plans to shoot very rapidly AND accurately simultaneously.
Check out ALL of the nation's best shooters' grips.
I am familiar with some of the nation's best shooters and their techniques. People can make something work that is generally a bad idea for regular application. Look at an IPSC rig. It's not practical but for their type of competition they are able to get a lot out of it. One of the local cops had his mags in an IPSC style set-up and then he had to go over a wall and later roll around with a bad guy. By the time he was done, his mags were all over the place. -There's a reason why some game gear and game techniques are best left to the gamers. -You would find the similar problems if you tried to import NASCAR driving techniques into regular driving.I disagree. It's the MOST PROPER form if, that is, one plans to shoot very rapidly AND accurately simultaneously.
Check out ALL of the nation's best shooters' grips.
I did not say that no techniques are transferable between shooting disciplines. I was using a couple of examples of gamer techniques and gear to illustrate a point that just because some IPSC guy does it, doesn't mean it has a practical application.If the gamer techniques have no place in real world applications, then please explain to me why all the top shooters are contracted by the military to tech the spec ops community how to shoot?
Maybe there's a communication gap, but the conversation is about riding the safety during a string of fire which is different from what you are talking about now.You keep saying you seen people do this, you seen people do that. Well how about personal experiences? Have you done tens of thousands of draws from a holster with a cocked and locked gun? If you have, you will realize without riding the safety, you will not reliably disengage the safety every time.
I agree 100%. I shoot the same way and all knowledgable people that I know do as well.Riding the safety is the best technique if you have a gun with a safety lever. I've seen people who keep their thumb under the lever, flip up the lever in the middle of shooting. A gun on safe is far worse than a gun that has been decocked.
Riding the safety also ensures that you have the absolute highest grip possible on the gun to help minimize the flippiness of the USP.
Even on a gun without a safety lever, I still maintain the same high grip.
Since when has riding the safety been a big no no? People have been teaching to ride the safety for the last 30 years. It's not the latest fad. Top shooters are always trying to find something that works better. They aren't going to try to make a bad technique work. But if you are saying there's a better way to draw a gun and flip the safety off and keep it flipped off, I'm all ears."Riding the safety" has been a big no-no for years. First, the gun is not mechanically designed with that type of use in mind. The HK's safety is designed to decock when you apply downward pressure on it. With competition pistols the same desired leverage was achieved with contoured grip panels which had a ledge for the thumb to ride. Unfortunately the USP doesn't have that option. The practice of pushing down on the safety on a regular basis to gain leverage can break the safety and can lock up the internals giving your gunsmith a fun project.