This is great advice no matter what you’re shooting–take it from someone who’s lost a lot of hearing over the last 20 years.
Okie John
I am confused here. Are you saying as long as you have grip on the gun you will be accurate? Just don’t get where posting these videos helps or what you are trying to point out? Sorry I am slow.:lol::lol: Also I had a SHIT day at the range with some new pistols so I am actually really interested in these responses.
It means that moving your feet, bending your knees, using a stacked thumbs or high thumbs grip, gripping 60/40 or 70/30, and all of the other techniques that people like to use when it comes to stance and grip doesn’t impact you ability to shoot the gun accurately.
Weaver, isos, standing straight up, or crouching like you’re pooping doesn’t change where the gun is pointing when it goes off.
A new shooter struggling to hit their target is speading their focus too wide if they are trying to make sure they have a particular grip/stance the whole time.
I used to work as a range officer. I lost track of how many people I saw shift their feet after they missed their target.
Two things matter: where are the sights pointing? did the sights stay put through the duration of the trigger pull?
You can use any stance and any grip you want, and hit your target, so long as you keep the sights on target through the trigger press.
Very thought provoking points. Thanks!
Welcome.
Just to clarify. This isn’t suggesting that good technique won’t help you shoot better, but its not the key to hitting your target. They are skills to work on after you have a flinch worked out. Can’t spread yourself too thin, gotta hit the big stuff first and pick the rest up later.
oooohhhhhhhh. I am one of those shooters who has a check list of things when I shoot so that makes a lot of sense. My father made a point the other day when I was watching top shot. I make a comment about how funny someone’s stance was and he was like “Well he is a natural shooter. Doesn’t matter how he stands he hits the target”. Guess that goes in hand with that.
edit: I don’t have a flinch. Or does anticipation count? I only anticipate if I haven’t shot for a few months. Yes sadly right now there are 3 month periods where I haven’t shot a round. 
Oh and I don’t mean to hijack.
OP any target pictures at all?
Let me see if I can find one of my targets in the trash.
Nope… I think with all the wind knocking my target stand over I gave up pasting new targets to the board. No way to tell which holes came from which gun.
Nothing wrong with having a checklist… it’s just that the building of each of those skills/techniques on that checklist is easier to do when you work on them individually, rather than trying to “build Rome in a day”.
edit: I don’t have a flinch. Or does anticipation count? I only anticipate if I haven’t shot for a few months. Yes sadly right now there are 3 month periods where I haven’t shot a round.
OP any target pictures at all?
I don’t personally make a lot of distinction between flinches, snatches, anticipation, etc. Either the gun moves off target in anticipation of the shot, or it doesn’t. It’s natural for everyone to struggle with this while they’re learning. It takes a long time to resist the urge to anticipate/fight it when you’re fatigued (too high of a round count) or you’re shooting a much more powerful weapon than you’re physically used to.
I don’t have the bona fides of some guys here, so you may take this or leave it. The thing that really jumped out at me in your post was the admition that you don’t shoot much. It is difficult to shoot well if you don’t shoot often, especially is you’ve never shot often. I went many years without shooting, and when I started again, I shot a revolver better too. Upon reflection, I think it was because the long DAO trigger pull actually prevented me from jerking the trigger. My other gun at the time was a 1911 and I think the single action trigger pull was actually a little unnerving, having been more used to revolvers.
If you know a good shooter, you may want to have them shoot your gun to rule that out, but at 3 yds, it’s probably not the gun unless something is broken.
Without spending one cent on anything, you can do some casing drills at home like others have suggested. If you can do those drills and shoot the same way you drill, then there’s no reason you can’t drastically improve your shooting. The casing goes on the front or rear sight, not the slide.
Like someone else also said, good 30db or better muffs and plugs can be important for a new shooter. Most the the cause of flinching is the noise and flash. The impact to your hand, especially from 9mm and 38 spl tends to be less significant. The noise and will be further enhanced if you shoot indoors.
Good luck.
I will try to get some targets posted here next time I go out so we can compare OP. Or at least you can tell me if yours look close to mine 
I used to shoot a couple times a month, but in the last year I have pretty much died out since ammo prices are sick crazy now. But I do notice fatigue after a couple hundred rounds if I haven’t shot in a while.