The fundamentals of marksmanship are best learned on the bench.
When teaching a beginner, I dont let them shoot freestyle until they understand the previous sentence.
In addition to ingraining the fundamentals, shooting from a bench is the perfect opportunity for learning how to consciously shift your attention. Or, how to keep your mind moving.
First, set up your sandbags so that the mag base pad, the front fingers of your weak hand, and the pistols dust cover are all resting solidly on the bags or the bench (base pad). Its important to create a uniform, solid place for the gun to rest. It should be so solid, in fact, that once your sights are aligned on the target, you could close your eyes and comfortably fire the shot. Additionally, the sand bags should be adjusted or positioned so that the sights are perfectly aligned with the target with no effort being applied by your hands.
Now forget about that and start over. Set up a perfect grip with both hands; then forget your grip. Now set your gun in position and perfectly align the sights on the target. Look back and forth from the target to your sights until you are certain that you have the sights aligned as accurately as possible. Then, when youre certain it cant get any better, shift your visual focus to bring the front sight into razor sharp focus, forgetting everything else. Once locked in on the front sight, leave 10% of your mental focus there, and decisively shift the remaining 90% of your attention to the feeling in your hands and trigger finger. Without hesitation, with all your attention, feel your hands calm and still, while noticing the feeling of the pressure between your trigger finger and the trigger rapidly increasing until the pistol fires. Youre still LOOKING RIGHT AT THE FRONT SIGHT during the last event, but you dont care about it any more. Once you shift your attention to your hands, the shot should fire within one to three seconds.
Get really still and calm and you might be surprised at what you SEE.
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