As part of my offhand progression post guys have mentioned jerking the trigger, It's the other side of hanging too long and not breaking the shot.  Not to say I have it licked but jerking the trigger is not a big issue, have some methods to keep it under control.

First thing is your finger needs some warm up, not a good idea to go from cold to expecting good control. This is no different from other sports, baseball player swings the bat before coming up to the plate or practice swings golfers take.  I always put some repetitive motion exercises into place before addressing the trigger take up.  Schuetzen pull on the trigger rest instead of the trigger, Modern rifle tap my finger on the side of the trigger guard.

If the jerk is going to be a problem though you really need to pull the trigger and work it out, Dry fire is the way to go and will often dry fire during a match, re-shoot a miss dry, cock the trigger and dry fire a number of shots off before cocking the hammer and re-loading the rifle for the real shot,

Got into a problem one Small Bore Silhouette national match this way. Missed the first easy pig and raised the bolt short and dry fired a number of times with 4 unfired cartridges in the magazine to work it out. Then went on and finished the other 4 shots.  Scorer questioned it and called me out for too many shots fired. Had to prove the magazine only held 5 and unless he showed some rule against it no limit on how many times the trigger was pulled, only on shots fired. It was settled in my favor.  None of this helped shooting a good score but other than that time have never had a problem with it.

Anyway won't say I cannot jerk the trigger but if the tendency raises it's head that's what I do about it.

Boats

boats wrote on Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:11pm:


You are one of the disciplined shooters whom I love to watch go through the 'routines' of off-hand shooting - to see what I can do to improve my shabby techniques.

I was talking to C Blender last night on the phone about this post [jerking the trigger] he said in his opinion good trigger control was more important than a rock steady hold.
     I also agree, Bob H is very good offhand shooter, probably at least in the top five or ten offhand  schuetzen shooters in the country.    leadball

Leadball Chuck is in the top half dozen thats for sure, and very good about sharing his knowledge.   

Boats

LeadB,

Could be not using a computer is smart after all.

Boats