Developed a strange grip on my G30 while dry firing...

[DistantTea]

I didn't notice it at first, and it may seem terribly insignificant but I've started to grip my G30 a little different. I usually have both thumbs high up on the gun but barely touching the frame with the right hand, just pointing foward with the left. But I guess I had a 1911 a little too long and listed to Rob Leatham a little too much because after I got rid of the 1911 I still wanted to rest that right thumb on the missing safety.

As I dry fired my new G30 that damn thumb kept creeping up until finally it was resting on the extended slide stop. Not only that but my dang left thumb is so far foward, because I'm still paroting a 1911 competition grip, that it sits on a groove on the dust cover forward of the trigger.

Mind you I wouldn't be posting about this if this wasn't such an eye opening grip for me. It just feels right when I shoot and thanks to the foward and obnoxiously high grip I'm not moving my shooting hand to release magazines or release the slide.

I haven't been back to the range since I discovered my hands were doing this on their own so I could be terribly wrong... but it feels right. And from a draw it allows my left hand to join up faster because that thumb has somewhere to go... a reference point for posture so to speak.

[LeMat]

That small recess where the slide disassembly lever resides makes a real nice spot for my left thumb.;)