Trigger Press

**Trigger press** is the act of pressing the trigger to the rear without disturbing sight alignment. It is the fundamental that most often ruins otherwise good shots, and the fundamental that the most experienced shooters still work on. The canonical advice is "smooth, straight to the rear, surprise break" — which is true as far as it goes and wildly incomplete as actual technique. What matters more: isolated trigger-finger motion (no sympathetic tension in the grip), consistent contact point (same part of the pad on the trigger every time), and consistent pressure curve. Most shooters can produce good trigger presses in dry fire and inconsistent ones under live-fire stress. The gap between those two is the gap between a beginner and an intermediate shooter, and it closes on the dot drill at the range more than anywhere else.