Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor
Chris Sajnog and founder of The New Rules of marksmanship. In
this video, I'm going to teach you how to shoot multiple
targets faster. Now let's go ahead and get started.
Joining me now is retired Navy SEAL sniper,
Chris, Sajnog shooting multiple targets is really easy if you
know how to do it. But the problem is that people apply the
same techniques to shooting a single target to shooting
multiple targets. And that's just not going to work. Now,
there's five things that you need to keep in mind. And I'm
going to teach you those five things. And if you follow them,
learning to shoot multiple targets is really going to be
easy, and you're going to be able to do it a lot faster. The
first thing you need to think about is your natural point of
aim. Where does your body naturally rest when it's pointed
at something. And generally, we look at the hips on where that's
going to be. So right now I have two targets set up on each side
of the camera. And if I was going to be shooting just at
this target right here, my natural point of aim would be
right here at this target. But if I want to shoot at this
target over here, well, then I need to shift my body, I need to
use muscle to turn my body to shoot over there. Now there's a
real easy fix. And all you need to do is open up your foot to
open up your hips and allow your hips to allow you to be able to
naturally now point at both of those targets, you may not be
able to plan for multiple targets. But if you're in a
shooting competition, and you know you have to shoot two
targets, or three targets set up in advance for that, say you're
in a self defense situation, and you have a threat here and
another threat opens up well, your feet aren't stuck in
cement. So just adjust on the move and open up your natural
point of aim. So you can effectively engage both targets.
Number two, and this is critical, there's three things
that need to shift for each target. And that's your
awareness, your eyes and then your muzzle. And it needs to
always happen in that order. Your awareness means that you
are aware of what's around you being situationally aware is a
skill you can work on and perfect through different drills
such as meditation, but you need to be aware of where your eyes
are going to move next. So right now, I am aware of this target
here and my eyes are on this target. But I'm also aware of
that target. Even though I'm not looking at it, I become aware of
it. See, I'm engaging this target, and then I see another
target, I know that's my next target. Well, I need to now
shift my eyes to my awareness over to there. And then the
third thing I'm going to do is move my muzzle, so I'm pointing
here over to meet my eyes. Now, if you do it in that order, it's
going to avoid what a lot of people do when they overshoot
their target, they don't stop on what they want to stop on. That
can happen when your eyes move there, but also when your muzzle
moves there. So make sure you do it in that order. The third
thing is timing. I brought out one of my favorite training
tools, which is a little dog trainer goes like that I use
this when I teach people on the range so they can hear what
their shots should sound like when they're shooting multiple
targets. Here's an example I'm going to shoot two shots at this
target and two shots at this other target over here with my
little dog clicker. And I would go 1234. All right, super easy,
right? You can do that, in your sleep. Use this is one of the
key ingredients to being able to shoot faster. And that is your
timing. So what do I mean? Well, most people when they try to
shoot two targets faster, they'll shoot target number one
fast and shoot target number two fast, so it would be like this.
Now the problem with that is the biggest time gap that we have is
the time between the two targets. So if I'm focusing on
shooting each individual target faster rather than compressing
the time in the middle, then I'm never going to get faster at
shooting both of those targets. So the way to fix that is to
perfectly time all your shots. So forget about how many targets
you have. Think about your shots. Going back to shooting
these two targets with two rounds each. I'm going to shoot
1234 And once you get the timing down, everything else becomes
easier. Now we're going to just work on compressing the entire
time of the whole shot sequence. So this can easily turn into now
I know it sounds too easy, too simple to be true. But that's
the way it works. And you need to focus on that you can't force
your speed you need to allow speed to happen. Okay, so get
your natural point of aim, make sure you are aware of your
target first, then
move your eyes, then move your muzzle and then make sure you're
working on your timing. Now the next thing and I touched on it,
part of it briefly is you need to ramp up your speed slowly.
And you also need to ramp up the distance between the two
targets, you could start off just with one yard apart and
work on that. And then slowly as you get better, you can spread
them further and further apart. And then you can work on your
speed. So I wouldn't want to work on trying to shoot a target
over here and shifting everything, my awareness, my
eyes and my muzzle all the way over to here, when I can't even
do it here, first train all this stuff at home, it can save you a
lot of time and frustration on the range, it's going to save
you a lot of ammo, and you can do it with airsoft guns, you can
do it with laser guns. And of course, you could do it with
just a clicker being able to hear that sound and know what it
feels like. So when you do go to the range, you're going to be
much better prepared for it. So now let me show you what that
would look like doing it dry fire. This is my Glock pistol it
has been cleared out and I have a dry fire mag inside of here so
that each time I pull the trigger, it will reset it. So
I'm going to set myself up my natural point of aim is on both
targets here and I am going to one, two. Now my awareness is
going to move to my other target. Now my eyes are going to
move to that target. And I'm going to bring my muzzle to meet
my eyes, and then I'll engage this one. So I'm going to do
that again. And I'll do it with the timing so you can hear the
timing and you can see my eyes we won't see my awareness shift
but you'll see my eyes shift and then my muscle will move after
my eyes shift
you can do it with any weapon system, you can do it at home,
you can even do it with airsoft. So let me show you what that
looks like. Alright, so here I have my CQ br From evic.com It
is an airsoft gun and this is a high quality training airsoft
gun so it's got the same weight field. You can see I've got all
my accessories that I have on my real firearm on this gun. So
that's really makes us one of my favorite training tools. With
this, we are going to make sure that our natural point of aim
allows me to easily shift between my two targets. Alright,
so let's see what that looks like. I'm going to shoot two
rounds, my awareness is going to shift to my second target, my
eyes are going to shift to my second target and then my muzzle
is going to shift to my second target
so that's it that is shooting multiple targets you can
practice this at home you can practice really anywhere you go
if you use the right tools. So I hope this has helped you out and
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