JBinMN
posted this
05 October 2024
Here is a suggestion of something you can try to perhaps help your missus.
Take some sand bags or a sandbag & a front shooting bag & have her shoot the pistol with the butt of the pistol sitting on a sandbag & the fore-end of the pistol sitting on a higher placed sandbag/or the front bag. ( make sure the pistol barrel is sticking out a ways from the higher bag so the muzzle is past the bag to prevent burning or holes in the upper bag. 
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This can be done sitting or standing... Sitting at a bench, or with the bags mentioned above sitting on an appropriate height ladder/ladder step or some sort of platform for standing shooting, you both can choose one or do both.
Have her shoot a mag or two with the handgun resting on the bags, using "good form" with her hands/wrists/arms, to get familiar with doing this type of rested shooting, and to help her learn the muscle memory to get good "form" from the "rested" position.
Once she has done this till she is comfortable shooting "rested", & any corrections that are noticed by you in her shooting form are adjusted to get her form correct, then after that, have her take a resting shot & then on the next shot raise the handgun just slightly off of Both bags, keeping the same form and shooting off a round. Repeat this second step alternating between "resting" & raised" in her "programming" for a few mags.
Then go to one shot resting, two shots raised slightly, and keep adjusting until she is shooting most of a mag raised & not rested, all the while keeping the good form in shooting.
Eventually her muscle memory for good form should kick in , and she should not need the "resting" shots, but can just shoot with the handgun "raised" as if she was still in the rested position.
This can also be done "dry firing", but actual shooting is better as far as I am concerned. Not going to go into the reasoning to keep from typing much more.
( I will mention that anyone who has been in the military & has had marksmanship training with a rifle & or handguns ( at least those who went in the USMC back when I was in a while ago) likely remembers the sessions of "dry firing" for a while before actually going to shoot "live fire" on the range to develop good form & familiarize with the shooting positions. The above rested/raised drill with a handgun is basically the same sort of thing, but usually moved to the range to help correct issues demonstrated by the results of actually firing & felt recoil..)
I am tired of typing. If you choose to try this, I hope it helps ya. It is what I would do with my missus or others like my grandkids, should a similar situation presented itself with them, back when they were learning the basics. It can also help with those who tend to flinch, along with some other methods.
Anyway....G'Luck~! Hope it helps/helpe3d.
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