Trigger Discipline: Proper & Poor Examples

Trigger discipline breaks down into not having your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

Proper Trigger Discipline

The go-to technique is to extend and rest your trigger finger against the frame of the firearm.  This makes it much more difficult for a series of events to happen where you accidentally shoot someone or something.

Otherwise, if you rest your finger on the trigger or even in the trigger guard, you can fire your gun due to being startled, stumbling, getting spasms, or even bumps in the road.  Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction?

Examples in Media

Now that you know, you’ll start to see examples of both good and bad trigger discipline all over the media.  Here’s some of our favorites.

Double good trigger discipline in Inception.

Good ole Feinstein practicing poor trigger discipline AND poor muzzle discipline.

James Bond definitely had some proper training.

Sorry Tier 1 operators of Blops 2…

And even Mr. Kalishnikov himself is guilty once in a while.

And we’ll end on a high note.  Is there even a gun in this picture of Kate Mara from Shooter?

Now that you’ve seen some good/bad examples…head out and learn how trigger discipline affects control.