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Pistol Hand Switching

Written by: Greg Ellifritz

 

Last week I posted a link to a firearms drill I was practicing.  The drill involved switching from right hand to left hand and shooting as quickly as possible.

 

A couple readers wrote in and asked me how exactly I perform my pistol hand transfers.  There are lots of different ways to do this.  As long as fingers stay off of triggers, any method should be adequate.  I do things in a particular way because it maximizes my control over the pistol in the event one of my hands is injured.

 

Rather than swapping the pistol side to side, I switch from top to bottom, a technique I picked up from Bob Kasper’s book Sting of the Scorpion.

 

I seat the pistol into the receiving hand by using the “wipe” technique I learned more than 20 years ago in the first pistol class I took at The Tactical Defense Institute.

 

The technique I used is pretty easy to explain verbally, but more difficult to adequately cover in writing.  I made a short video to explain how I do it.  Please keep in mind that I am not a video dude.  I don’t make them and I rarely watch them.  This is a single take done in my former girlfriend’s back yard.  Please excuse the lack of production value.

 

If you are interested in how I do my hand switches, please watch the video below.

 

 

Back to text articles tomorrow.

 

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Posted on February 2, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Reader Questions

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