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Hours and hours of dry practice are necessary to fully master this grip. Add to that the fact that the isosceles stance normally accompanies the grip and one shoots with both eyes open, so good luck getting a hard focus on the front sight! Not the proper ingredients necessary for good defensive handgun techniques, in my opinion.

One good thing about the Thumbs Forward System is that the support-side index finger does not grip the front edge of the trigger guard. There is really no advantage to one’s shooting accuracy by having the finger there, so this technique has fallen into much disfavor. We took extra efforts to discourage the gripping of the trigger guard in this manner at Front Sight. Very few instructors teach this technique anymore.

The AMW Grip

The third and final grip system is my Aggressive Modified Weaver or AMW, as I refer to it. At Front Sight we called it the Thumbs Stacked or Thumbs High grip.

The AMW Grip is a typical Weaver grip with an aggressive amount of forward and rearward hand pressure applied simultaneously to the frontstrap and backstrap of the gun. This pressure is termed isometric pressure and normally is 40% forward by the firing-side hand and 60% pull or rearward pressure by the support-side hand. The thumbs are stacked along the left side of the weapon and on a 1911A1 style pistol, the firing-side thumb resides on top of the thumb safety. The thumbs exert no lateral pressure on the left side of the pistol.