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August 12th, 2011 at 11:38 am
You know, I have a pet peeve about this issue.
I’ve seen this advice before, from Todd Jarrett’s internet video, Kathy Jackson, etc. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how you can simultaneously follow their advice and shoot a double-stack. For most people, with small or medium hands, it’s one or the other.
If the pistol is centered in your hand AND with the barrel axis running down the wrist and forearm bones, there is no way that anyone with small- to medium-sized hand (even with long fingers) will be able to reach the trigger on a double-stack pistol. That leaves a 1911-type pistol, or a Kahr, or some other single-stack. Forget Glock, the M&P, double-column Sigs, etc.
Moreover, if you shoot isosceles and the pistol is perfectly aligned with your forearm, it will naturally be pointing slightly left (try it and see). To correct this and shoot from your body’s centerline, the pistol cannot be aligned with the forearm, but slightly off that alignment, with the tang slightly more towards the thumb knuckle than towards the index finger knuckle.
Alternatively, you’d have to shoot Weaver or Chapman, such that the pistol, wrist, arm, and right eye form one solid line. However, you’d still have most people shooting single-stacks because of the finger-reach problem.
In my view, you can have a double-stack or follow that gun-fit advice. You can do both if you have monster hands with long fingers; otherwise, you’d have to violate some aspect of the gun-fit advice (alignment with arm, position on the web of the hand) or go with a single-stack pistol.