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Old March 5, 2014, 06:59 PM   #6
fastbolt
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Non-dominant hand (some folks don't have a "weak hand" ) manipulation and shooting is good to learn and practice.

I once decided to do all of my training left-handed for 5 months (including quals, even when off-side/non-dom drills weren't required) while working as an instructor. I didn't switch out holsters, but just transitioned hands after drawing or practiced reaching with my other hand (as if my dominant hand were injured).

One of the interesting observations I made was that it was no longer surprising why our left-handed shooters didn't ask for their RH mag catches to be changed over to LH (once we'd adopted models that allowed it), but remained with their left-handed manipulation of right-handed catches. Actually easier to do with a LH finger than a RH thumb. Ditto dropping slide stops that way on some guns.

Practicing with the non-dominant hand when it comes to shooting skills makes sense, but that was something drilled into me as a young man when I first started in the martial arts. Deliberately becoming a fighter who only possesses skill for 1-handed blows can be really limiting.
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