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Staging the trigger?

For many years it was fashionable to teach the technique of ‘staging’ the trigger, and some instructors still believe in the technique.

In staging, the trigger is compressed most of the way to ignition but is paused at the last bit of travel so that muzzle alignment can be acquired or verified. Once that’s done the trigger compression is restarted and the gun fires. In practice the sequence is start-stop-align sights-restart-discharge.

The thinking behind this technique is that it’s not possible to maintain precise muzzle alignment over the entire distance that the trigger moves. With one caveat (which I’ll get to in a moment) I don’t agree with this premise. Experience, not just mine but that of my students and of award-winning shooters, suggests that staging is a crutch. If you’ve practiced a smooth, continuous trigger stroke without the sights veering off target, then staging will afford you no advantage in accuracy.

One of the issues in allowing yourself to stage the trigger is that it requires precise timing. You have to stop the trigger at a point where most of the trigger travel has been used, with the smallest amount of travel remaining to take advantage of a shorter and relatively lighter trigger action. Stopping too soon leaves more of the travel remaining, and if that happens it’s not much different than just stroking the trigger straight through.