A right-handed shooter picks up a handgun by making a V with thumb and forefinger under the slide, loads the magazine while watching for the "happy smiley faces" to confirm seating, then establishes a high-palm grip with thumbs down and fingers on the trigger guard.
So here's what we're gonna do. First thing is how we set up. The magazine is always going to be to the left of the gun because we're assuming we're working with a right-handed shooter. When we go to pick up the gun, our index finger, AKA our trigger finger, is the first thing that touches the gun, so it automatically has a home. It is not the trigger. Our left hand can help to make sure we get this nice and solid. We want to make sure the V of our hand is under the slide. So the V is where our thumb and our forefinger come together. Now when we go to load, we're going to use our index finger on the front of the magazine because we're very good at pointing at things. Then we're going to tilt and look. Can you see the happy smiley faces in there? So we can actually see where we're installing this. Now Are there people that you will watch just go like this? Absolutely. And if every gun was exactly the same, I would say you can do this all day long. But we want to see where we're putting it so we can do this on any gun that we pick up. Then our gun goes straight back up, our right thumb gets out of the way, our left thumb pushes the slide lock down. Thumb slides forward, palm nestles in nice and high on the grip, and our fingers are all together touching the bottom of the trigger guard, and our thumb goes down. It's going to look slightly different for everyone. If you look over the top of the gun, my thumb and forefinger are somewhere close to each other. Depending on the gun, depending on your hands, it's going to look a little bit different. Bring this into my belly button, take a breath because that was a lot of work. That's it. So
