Great post Andy. I've only heard this mentioned a couple times before and as you say never in public IIRC. I shoot Sporting Clays competitively and LOP is one of the first things you learn about.AndyC wrote:Well, if you want to get anal about terminology, handguns have butts, don't they? :)
Length of pull refers to the distance from gun butt to the trigger. While the term is almost always used to refer to long-guns, I'd argue that it's exactly the same concept - from the face of the trigger to where the rearmost part of the fiream physically abuts against the body, wouldn't you agree?
Feel free to come up with a better term of your choice, I care not; my concern is in describing the effects of that distance - something that's rarely if ever mentioned or made public, and I think it's critical to be aware of it in order to understand why a shot goes where it does.
I think with all the different trigger choices in the 1911 platform and many other platforms for that matter, it is a real concern. However, in the recreational world of pistol shooting, LOP is very misunderstood. Comfort is not always what is best. We are not educated on LOP as it pertains to accuracy while shooting the pistol, we are shown the "wheel" and told how to correct it...However, if we had the correct LOP we would have a lot less to correct.
I would be willing to bet that competitive pistol shooters are all too aware of LOP.
Great Post!