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    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort: Expert gun safety tips for handgun grip, stance, trigger control, malfunction clearing and more.
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort: Expert gun safety tips for handgun grip, stance, trigger control, malfunction clearing and more.
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort: Expert gun safety tips for handgun grip, stance, trigger control, malfunction clearing and more.
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    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort: Expert gun safety tips for handgun grip, stance, trigger control, malfunction clearing and more.

    By David Fessenden

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    In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches handgun grip, stance, presentation, sight picture, trigger control, reloading drills and malfunction clearing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440234446
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort: Expert gun safety tips for handgun grip, stance, trigger control, malfunction clearing and more.

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      Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection eShort - David Fessenden

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      Defensive Handgun Drills & Techniques Collection

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      In the Ready Position, the weapon’s safety can be on, if the situation dictates. It is normally is off, at the beginning. Your arms and weapon are positioned at a 45° angle to the ground.

      The Ready Position

      The Ready Position is an alert or standby position. You can observe, assess a situation or await a range command while in this position. Your trigger finger is off the trigger and at home base.

      From the Ready Position, the shooter can go to any other gun handling position.

      The Grip

      During the research for and writing of this book, it became evident to me that a chapter was needed to cover the subject of the grip. I have read whatever articles I could find about the subject and have had numerous pro and con discussions on this subject with many individuals. I have even experimented with and developed my own iteration of the modified Weaver grip system, best suited for defensive and self protection scenarios. Where I have introduced this Aggressive Modified Weaver grip (AMW) to new students, the response and reception to it has been very encouraging and has met with much approval.

      Of course, as we’ve mentioned, the Weaver grip owes its existence to Deputy Jack Weaver of the L.A. county sheriff’s dept. and his days at the Lake Arrowhead, California, competitive shoots with Col. Jeff Cooper in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Since then it has undergone a few modifications, not the least of which are mine!

      The grip is the manner in which a shooter initially holds his weapon if he or she intends to discharge it. But grip is more important and critical to proper shooting techniques than merely providing a means of holding and firing the weapon. It is the conduit through which the shooter transmits images and actions from his brain to his trigger finger. While this is occurring, the grip must

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