Advantages of Practicing One-Handed Shooting

By James England

In almost every gun safety class, a student is taught to handle a firearm with both hands. This ensure steadiness and control of the gun. However, there’s some easy mistakes shooters will make that can be corrected by firing with one hand.

Firing with one hand? Yes.

It’s not that hard and it physically teaches us the importance of trigger control and proper sight alignment, sight picture. It can also improve our posture and improve our stance so we better understand how to balance a pistol when aiming and firing on a target.

In actual practice, these skills translate over.

If you notice your shots sliding side-to-side or go errantly off to one side, your trigger control may be partially to blame. Shooting with one hand, it becomes quickly apparent how you pull the trigger affects your performance.

Tea Cup Shooting — Single-Handed Support

The Tea Cup shooting stance is your dominant hand on the pistol grip and a supporting hand held out flat beneath the dominant hand. This gives you a bit more stability than firing single-handed alone. It also helps you better diagnose trigger control issues versus general shakiness of holding a gun one-handed.

One-Handed Shooting With Dominant Hand

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