{"id":3329,"date":"2015-10-22T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:14:14","slug":"12-time-national-champ-on-trigger-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/12-time-national-champ-on-trigger-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"12-TIME NATIONAL CHAMP ON TRIGGER PULL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunnery Sgt. Brian Zins, USMC Retired, won the national championship of conventional bulls-eye pistol shooting a dozen times, more than anyone else in history. When he talks about marksmanship, I listen.\u00a0 One-handed pistol shooting at 25 and 50 yards places a premium on trigger control, but his advice on the topic can apply to any type of firearm. (I had the chance to meet Gunny Zins a bit over a decade ago: he\u2019s an excellent teacher, and a fine man of the kind we\u2019re proud to see as the face of American shooting sports.)<\/p>\n<p>Recently, he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssusa.org\/articles\/2015\/10\/16\/zins-on-bullseye-trigger-control\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=insider&amp;utm_campaign=1015\" target=\"_blank\">this article\u00a0for the NRA<\/a>.\u00a0 Among other things, he takes the rather controversial position that the distal joint of the trigger finger is a more advantageous position for the shooter than the traditionally-recommended \u201cpad\u201d of the index finger, which I would define as the part where you find the whorl of the fingerprint.<\/p>\n<p>I teach it as a very useful technique, assuming the gun fits the hand when you shoot this way. Among other things, it gives the shooter\u2019s finger more leverage, ergo, more control.<\/p>\n<p>All y\u2019all trigger-pullers out there, after you\u2019re done reading Brian\u2019s thoughts and experiences, I\u2019d be interested in hearing yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunnery Sgt. Brian Zins, USMC Retired, won the national championship of conventional bulls-eye pistol shooting a dozen times, more than anyone else in history. When he talks about marksmanship, I listen.\u00a0 One-handed pistol shooting at 25 and 50 yards places a premium on trigger control, but his advice on the topic can apply to any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition","8":"category-firearms","9":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}