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Terminology and preferences

In the following discussion I use some very specific terminology for the act of moving the trigger. There are also terms I don’t use for very specific reasons, mainly because they’re either not descriptive or put the wrong preconception into the shooter’s mind. Is this point of view overblown? Some might say so, but I believe that when learning to perform a physical skill a solid, consistent visualization is important.

The term ‘pull,’ for instance, implies a movement of the whole hand. One doesn’t normally pull something with just a finger, one pulls using the whole hand and arm movement. That’s not the image one should have in mind while trying to isolate the trigger finger from the rest of the hand and hold the gun steady! ‘Press’ implies using the tip of the finger and moving away from the body. Again, not really consistent with the job we’re wanting to do.

So, what does your obviously obsessive-compulsive author use? I prefer the term ‘stroke,’ as in a golf stroke. A stroke, in either golf or shooting, consists of two parts. For the revolver shooter, the first part is compression: the act of moving the trigger backward against spring pressure and firing the round. The shooter is compressing the springs that power the gun, and the term implies a smooth, consistent motion regardless of speed.