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bdickens wrote:Thirdly, laying your index finger along the slide exposes it to the likelihood of injury, either from lacerations or, in the case of a revolver, from the hot gasses that come out from the gap between the cylinder and the forcing cone.

It's been a while since I first encountered the notion of first-finger indexed, middle-finger on the trigger. I discounted it long ago.

But I did go to the OP's Website in the interest of equanimity, and one of the things I noticed was that he highlighted a Seecamp .32 as an example of a gun that had no sights, as if that were a justification for his theory. Seecamp was even advertised in a "banner."

Now, I respect Larry Seecamp. I carry a Seecamp as a BUG because it's the smallest semi-auto I can get that's built like a tank. But anyone with average-to-large hands who tries to grab and fire that little gun with a middle-finger grip is gonna pay for it, in blood, either on the web of your hand or along your index finger.

The OP, judging from his Website, is fixated and will not give up the ghost. My advice is to browse the Website at will, but understand that much of the advice contained is dated and does not represent the latest current thinking in handgun combatives.

I'll eschew comment on this one. I'm a huge believer in training for contact-distance and transition-distance encounters (a lot of you have grown tired of me stepping up on that soapbox), but not in attempting to run counter to all the professional, respected instruction available--or trying to rewire a couple decades of my own training--by trying to learn to pull the trigger with my middle finger. This has always struck me as a solution persistently in search of a problem.