Weak Hand
It may be necessary to shoot using only your weak hand. When you practice this you will begin in the same manner as you would for freestyle using your normal stance.
How you disengage the safety on your firearm will be dependent on whether or not it has an ambidextrous safety. If your firearm is equipped with an ambidextrous safety, it is strongly recommended that you leave the safety on while you are transferring the firearm to your weak hand. The weak hand then would disengage the safety when the firearm is being pointed at a target. If there is no ambidextrous safety then you should draw and disengage the safety as you normally would. Be careful when you do the transfer and make sure that you keep your trigger finger outside of the trigger guard.
- One method is to grasp the firearm lower on the butt of the firearm. This will leave a space under the beavertail for your weak hand to grasp the firearm.
- The firearm should be brought up to chest level.
- Your trigger finger should remain outside of the trigger guard.
- At the point where you would normally join your hands, begin to transfer the firearm to the open weak hand.
- Once your weak hand thumb and fingers have wrapped around the butt of the firearm, you can release your strong hand.
- Your arm begins to extend the firearm forward towards the target.
- Your trigger finger can now move inside the trigger guard.
- You can now disengage your safety if you have not already done so.
- It is important to lean into the recoil and keep your strong hand tucked close to your body.
