Limp wristing is a term that has also become a popular catch-all term for malfunctions. If grip, arm or upper body strength is an issue because of a disability, consider trying different firearms to see if any will malfunction less. A heavier gun absorbs more of the recoil energy making recoil management a bit easier. Polymer frame guns are lighter and easier to carry but also come with more perceived recoil making them more difficult to manage for some. In these cases, a change of firearm may help with malfunction issues. And it’s easy to just to assume that these shooters won’t be able to effectively manage recoil or shoot without limp wristing type malfunction. Many times shooters experience some physical difficulties such as arthritis that make it difficult to get a firmer grip on the firearm. Alternate Solutions and Special Circumstances Think of ideal recoil as the gun moving forward and back on a horizontal plane rather than up and down during recoil. Your elbows should not be so flexed that the fly up at a 90-degree angle when the gun recoils. Lean forward slightly from the waist to get a more solid foundation for shooting with your arms out in front of you. Stance – Your upper body should provide a foundation for your shooting, not your hands and wrists. Shooters who “teacup” with their support hand, holding the bottom of the grip rather than on the grip and frame of the gun are more likely to limp wrist. Get a good grip position with your support hand. First, with your strong hand make sure that you are as high under the beavertail or back of the gun under the slide as you can get. And having a good grip doesn’t only refer to the strength of your grip but the position of both your hands. Grip – A good grip is essential to reduce limp wristing. Limp wristing is simple to fix but complex to diagnose because there can be many different causes that come into play. In any of these malfunctions, it is easy for the shooter to believe that something is wrong with the handgun, when in reality the problem may lie in the way they’re shooting. So, limp wristing can cause malfunctions such as a failure to eject the spent casing completely from the handgun, either remaining in the firearm or partially ejecting, getting caught in the ejection port as the slide comes forward causing a malfunction that is known as a stove pipe.Īnother type of malfunction that may occur from limp wristing is a failure to feed, which is when the slide comes back just enough to eject the spent round but does not move forward with enough speed to chamber the subsequent round. In order for your semi-automatic handgun to perform efficiently, the slide must complete the cycle. Limp wristing only happens with semi-automatic handgun shooters where the slide is responsible for cycling the gun rather than the cylinder of a revolver. This causes the slide to cycle inefficiently because it’s not being maintained in a level, horizontal position. When these things happen, the shooter tends to let the recoil of the gun take over and their hands ride that movement rather than managing the recoil and trying to keep the gun on target as much as possible. Limp wristing happens when either the shooter does not have a strong enough grip or the wrist does not remain strong and straight or both occur while shooting. There just one issue that can make this challenging – recoil! And that’s where limp wristing comes in. In order for this to happen efficiently, the handgun needs to stay as level as possible. This happens repeatedly as long as there are cartridges in the magazine and the gun doesn’t malfunction. Once the first round is fired, the slide cycles back from the pressure and then moves forward to load the next cartridge. We only have to do that for the first shot. After we insert the magazine into a semi-automatic handgun, we pull the slide back or rack the slide to load a cartridge into a chamber. But what exactly is limp wristing and how can you overcome it? The Mechanics of a Handgunīefore we get into limp wristing, we need to talk about how a handgun operates. It doesn’t take long in your shooting journey before you hear the term “limp wristing.” It can cause you to be inaccurate and in some cases can even cause your gun to malfunction.
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