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                              The Fundamentals of Handgun Shooting

                                                By: John Reynolds

I am going to keep this short, and basic because that is what  I am going to be talking about basic handgun shooting fundamentals.  You should know which eye to aim with, and that means knowing which eye is dominate.

To determine your dominate eye simply follow these 4 easy steps:

1. Put your arms out in front of your body.

2. Place your hands together forming a small opening at the thumbs, and fore-fingers.

3. Now with both eyes open look through the opening at a distant object.

4. Now close one eye at a time. The eye you can still see the object with is your dominate eye.

Now that you know which eye to use to aim you can also determine which hand to use to grip the handgun.  Generally it is recommended that you use the hand on the same side as the dominate eye. Now that we have faced the first two fundamental steps we need to look at the other six fundamentals of handgun shooting.

Position, Grip, Breath Control,  Sight Alignment,  Trigger Squeeze, and Follow through.  Sight  alignment and trigger squeeze are the two most important of these six steps, but I will however talk on all of them in next months issue.