Sirs,
I have recently purchased a Stryker fired pistol. My first. I have a few double and single action handguns that I can shoot with success and some accuracy to the point of aim.
However with the stryker fired everything wants to shoot to the left of point of aim. Sight adjustment appears to have no effect. I returned the gun to the factory and they said it was me with a "limp wrist" WTF. Having fired 1000's of rounds I cannot think of a cause. Help.

Might be sticking your trigger finger to far through. Could be breaking your wrist. Could be the firearm.

Do you shoot your double actions using the double action?

99 percent of these problems are shooter related and since you stated that sight adjustment doesn't help I would tend to believe that is the case here.

Have you tried the old ball and dummy drill you might want some one else shoot it and or get some one to video you shooting.

During my decades of being an instructor I heard dozens of times my pistol isn't accurate it my pistol fault 99% of the time it is the shooter.

But on the rare occasion a pistol problem well be found, Find an accomplished shooter and have them shoot it.

One well quickly find if it is you or the or the pistol.

If it is you the best thing you can do is say I have a problem recognize it and work to correct it. Too many shooter never want to admit that they are the problem.

thanks for the reply- learned years ago to fire with the fingertip. Don't think I'm breaking my wrist, as for the double action -yes I fire both single and double. this type of headache never appeared until this new handgun. will find someone else to fire it.

The only way I get any kind of pattern out of my Glock is to squeeze the trigger, stop and squeeze some more. Not really conducive to combat shooting.

Funny thing a good bullseye shooter in my club is now on the nypd. Had to unlearn to shoot.

Their method is to stuff that finger in to the joint.

Stuff that finger ? The advice is poor in my opinion .The effort should be to find the best way for that particular shooter .Too many variables to have a "one size fits all mentality."
For any shooter shooting many different guns is not a good idea either .To easy to think you are shooting one gun while actually shooting another !!!

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Originally posted by mete:
For any shooter shooting many different guns is not a good idea either .To easy to think you are shooting one gun while actually shooting another !!!

Depends on the shooter

Dick, have you shot your gun from a pistol rest? If not, I suggest you do so. i use an MTM pistol rest. This will give you confidence in your gun. There are several possible causes, but the first question is NOT where does the gun shoot but how does it group? The stuff about "I know a bullseye shooter who had to unlearn" is pure B-S. The triggers on my Bullseye guns (S&W model 41, S&W model 52, Colt Gold Gup with customized trigger) are NOTHING like the triggers on any standard pistols, not even those supposedly "match" pistols. You don't say what "striker fired gun" you have, but most have a quite heavy trigger pull with quite a bit of travel. I cannot diagnose your problem, but let's start with benching the gun at say 25 yards and see what kind of groups you are getting. Find an NRA review of your gun. Their accuracy testing is quite rigorous.
Just my 2 cents, Peter

With tens of thousands of pistol rounds fired I had and still have some what this same problem with the first striker fire pistol in my inventory. I come from a 1911 and wheel gun back round and shooting a striker fire pistol gave me fits...... Being that I had to carry this pistol I spent a lot of time improving my grip and trigger management.
Like Peter suggest the first thing I did was to bench rest the gun and found out that is was not the pistol once I got past my ego I decided to learn how to shoot this damn thing.

It has been a very humbling experience but my scores and confidence has improved greatly..
Below is a chart that may help you
Good Luck

That's a nice graph! To the OP, I had/still slightly have the same issue when shooting my M&P. Adjusting my grip, tightening up and very consciously focusing on taking up the creep and squeezing the trigger helped. I checked it out when dry firing and could visibly see the tip of the pistol flicking slightly to the right when the trigger broke. This coincided nicely with all my shots going that way, too.

I hope Dick gets back with us and informs us of his findings