SETTING THE WRIST
Brian Enos: "When I was experimenting in my hotel room that night at the Steel Challenge, I realized I wanted to get my hands as high up on the gun as possible. I found that camming my wrist over to get the heel of my left hand as high up and flat on the gun as possible allowed me to get my thumbs off the side of the gun.

The master-hand index finger will ride up hard under the triggerguard, and the web of the master hand will be hard up under the tang with any good two-handed grip. Brian Enos (left), Dave Sevigny (above). Photo by Nidaa A.

"Some people talk about 'setting your wrist' with the cammed-wrist technique to hold down recoil, and then there's the 60/40 theory that you should squeeze harder with the left hand than the right hand. It's never worked for me to think of it that way. The way I think of it is with both hands gripping the gun equally. When I can do that, I don't feel like I have a left hand and a right hand; I have one hand, one hand on the gun. I will say that thinking about the two-hand grip like '60/40' does seem to help people not overgrip with the right hand. When you grip the gun too hard with your master hand, you lose the fine motor control in your index finger for precise trigger manipulation."

Dave Sevigny: "For me, the support-hand wrist lock is a very important element to help reduce muzzle flip. Because the muzzle lifts during recoil, the top of the backstrap pushes rearward and the bottom of the frontstrap pushes forward. Controlling these two points is critical, and camming the wrist forward accomplishes that for me. Since it stops your hand from moving very much, it stops the gun from moving very much [as well]."

SIDE-TO-SIDE PRESSURE
Brian Enos: "Some people think the side-to-side pinching action of your left hand is there to make the gun track more consistently. Not really. The thing is, the gun wants to track consistently. The side-to-side pressure makes the gun track better only because it doesn't make it worse. Your left hand does very little to decrease muzzle flip. All it's going to do is allow the gun to return to where it was. That's all a proper grip is; it allows you to hold the gun without adding any disturbance to the gun's ability to do that. The purpose of your grip doesn't cause the gun to track better; it's that it doesn't cause it to track worse. If you look at it with that approach, you'll much more easily be able to develop techniques that don't mess with the gun's natural tendency to do that."

Dave Sevigny: "It's important to have the side-to-side pinching action of the support hand because, in order to have the best sight tracking, all parts of the grip should be in contact with your hands."

THUMBS ON OR OFF?
Brian Enos considers not touching the side of the gun with the support-hand thumb a key element to consistent sight tracking, but not everyone agrees with that. Dave Sevigny does indeed touch the side of the gun with the support-hand thumb and considers that a significant part of his technique. He explained, "I think it's very important not to overcompensate for anything; if you're doing something on one side of the gun, you should do the same thing on the other side as much as possible. I put side-to-side pressure on the gun with my left hand and front-to-rear pressure with the right hand; I put the gun out there, muscling it just enough to keep it where I want it to be while I'm pulling the trigger. But you still have to pull the trigger with your right hand. I find that getting my thumb against the side of the gun balances everything out so you can resist trigger torque; you don't wind up moving the gun off target when you pull the trigger. Placing the support-hand thumb along the frame seems to balance everything out for me, especially when pressing a four- to six-pound Glock trigger pull for every shot."