New shooter tips. Trigger finger discipline should be practiced until it becomes instinctive. In all circumstances except when on target ready to break a shot, your trigger finger should be well outside the trigger guard area. Placing your finger on the frame mitigates potential negligent discharges, for example when loading, reloading, clearing a jam, unloading, during draw or returning your gun to your holster and all other circumstances other than being on target ready to shoot. A "hovering finger" near the trigger guard area will eventually result in an AD, even if your finger wasn't originally on the trigger, because you may bobble a reload, or your gun hit a barricade, you trip and fall, or any number of other circumstances