Artillery Pic

GerColctor · 11-24-2016, 02:26 PM

Great picture, thanks for sharing.

All firearms training today mandates that the finger be off the actual trigger and lying against the frame until ready to actually fire the weapon. Having the forefinger directly on the trigger can result in an unintended discharge, by "sympathetic mussel" reaction. Many a police officer searching a building, especially in low light, was injured or killed by his partner who was separated and was startled when he suddenly saw "a man" and his immediate reaction was to pull the trigger. In the 1950s nearly happened to my father who was a cop in New Haven, CT, while searching a furniture store with another officer on the midnight shift.
A number of police departments in the age of revolvers had the single action filed down to help eliminate this type of sudden finger reflex when carried hammer back. Having the finger off the trigger gives a little extra time and thought before the weapon is discharged.

In WW II the common military training was finger on the trigger, whenever in a danger zone.

kurusu · 11-24-2016, 03:12 PM

I'll say one thing. War and police work are very different.

gunbugs · 11-24-2016, 03:12 PM

"Sympathetic mussel"?Clams care about trigger discipline?

kurusu · 11-24-2016, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gunbugs

"Sympathetic mussel"?Clams care about trigger discipline?

All the time.

11-24-2016, 02:26 PM	#1
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 318 Thanks: 3 Thanked 53 Times in 33 Posts	Great picture, thanks for sharing. All firearms training today mandates that the finger be off the actual trigger and lying against the frame until ready to actually fire the weapon. Having the forefinger directly on the trigger can result in an unintended discharge, by "sympathetic mussel" reaction. Many a police officer searching a building, especially in low light, was injured or killed by his partner who was separated and was startled when he suddenly saw "a man" and his immediate reaction was to pull the trigger. In the 1950s nearly happened to my father who was a cop in New Haven, CT, while searching a furniture store with another officer on the midnight shift. A number of police departments in the age of revolvers had the single action filed down to help eliminate this type of sudden finger reflex when carried hammer back. Having the finger off the trigger gives a little extra time and thought before the weapon is discharged. In WW II the common military training was finger on the trigger, whenever in a danger zone. __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

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11-24-2016, 03:12 PM	#2
kurusu User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,225 Thanks: 2,679 Thanked 930 Times in 509 Posts	I'll say one thing. War and police work are very different.

11-24-2016, 03:12 PM	#3
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 683 Thanks: 375 Thanked 1,230 Times in 415 Posts	"Sympathetic mussel"?Clams care about trigger discipline?