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Bartholomew Roberts · December 30, 2018, 12:40 PM

Get maximum meat on the pistol. Like Brit, I prefer to take a good single handed grip and then wrap the dominant hand with the weak hand in a thumbs forward grip. The whole 60/40, 70/30, whatever/whatever split on grip strength is nonsense.*

You want to apply maximum grip power any way you can. Applying it with the offhand helps minimize the problems with poor trigger control by minimizing sympathetic squeeze.

*I shoot semi-auto handguns almost exclusively so these comments may not apply to revolvers as well.

December 30, 2018, 12:40 PM	#17
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	Get maximum meat on the pistol. Like Brit, I prefer to take a good single handed grip and then wrap the dominant hand with the weak hand in a thumbs forward grip. The whole 60/40, 70/30, whatever/whatever split on grip strength is nonsense.* You want to apply maximum grip power any way you can. Applying it with the offhand helps minimize the problems with poor trigger control by minimizing sympathetic squeeze. *I shoot semi-auto handguns almost exclusively so these comments may not apply to revolvers as well.