At the range today despite the high winds since I want to get ready for some g-hogging this week. As normal, I am shooting off my cross sticks but for a change, I am shooting fairly well which at my age, is pleasant. 
 Anyway, a fellow shooter who has been watching me remarked that despite the nice shooting, my trigger finger position was quite unconventional. (I am amazed that he observed this!}
I was shooting my prime stalker, a Rem Model 7, re-barreled with a 20" Douglas Match barrel. Several years ago, I replaced the factory "junk" stock with a B&C Medalist stock. The problem was, I have large hands for a small guy - I suspect that my small stature is due to all the bad beer (Iron City - local Pittsburgh brew) I drank when I was a kid which stunted by growth, or I would have been a 6-footer.
Anyway, this stock has very little vertical drop in the pistol grip making difficult for me to get an effective trigger finger position with my big "meat hooks". So, after trial and error several years ago, I switched from the "holy grail" of center of the pad on the first digit to the joint of the first digit of my trigger finger. This gave me a much better position and trigger control and my shooting improved significantly almost immediately.
This point to this epistle is that sometimes you have to step outside the "conventional box" to achieve improvement. Sometimes a little experimentation with technique can yield outstanding results.
 Anyway, a fellow shooter who has been watching me remarked that despite the nice shooting, my trigger finger position was quite unconventional. (I am amazed that he observed this!}I was shooting my prime stalker, a Rem Model 7, re-barreled with a 20" Douglas Match barrel. Several years ago, I replaced the factory "junk" stock with a B&C Medalist stock. The problem was, I have large hands for a small guy - I suspect that my small stature is due to all the bad beer (Iron City - local Pittsburgh brew) I drank when I was a kid which stunted by growth, or I would have been a 6-footer.
Anyway, this stock has very little vertical drop in the pistol grip making difficult for me to get an effective trigger finger position with my big "meat hooks". So, after trial and error several years ago, I switched from the "holy grail" of center of the pad on the first digit to the joint of the first digit of my trigger finger. This gave me a much better position and trigger control and my shooting improved significantly almost immediately.
This point to this epistle is that sometimes you have to step outside the "conventional box" to achieve improvement. Sometimes a little experimentation with technique can yield outstanding results.
