Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog founder
of The New Rules of marksmanship training system. In this video,
I'm gonna give you a few tips on shooting a pistol with one hand.
Now let's go ahead and get started.
Joining me now as a retired Navy SEAL sniper Chris Sajnog what
are some reasons that you might shoot a pistol with one hand?
Well, there's actually a lot of them. And in law enforcement and
the military, you mostly hear people talk about, well, if you
have an injured hand, you might need to shoot with one hand. But
there's a lot of other reasons that could come into play. For
instance, if you are holding on to a relative, maybe you have
kids, and you need to hold on to them, protect them, keep them
back, maybe you need to hold on to a railing on a stairwell or
something. Maybe you are texting, maybe you're driving
whatever it is, I'm just kidding about those last ones. But
there's lots of things that may only allow one of your hands to
come to the party, when it's time for a gunfight, okay. It's
definitely something that you need to practice and learn. But
it's not as hard as many people think. And with these tips,
hopefully you find that it's easy as well. Alright, so tip
number one is to keep as much of your shooting platform and your
shooting position the same. So if I am in my standing, shooting
position with my pistol, all I want to do, if possible, is just
remove that support from the system. And now I can do
whatever I need to do with this other hand. And unfortunately,
what you'll see a lot of people do and some firearms instructors
will actually teach this is that you want to cant the gun, which
is not good because your body is used to the mechanical system
you already have set up people will teach you to push your
shoulder out and shoot sideways like this. And what you're doing
there is you're giving up your strong chest muscles and back
muscles in favor of supporting the gun with your smaller
deltoid muscles. So you don't want to do that you still want
to keep everything packed in and tight the same way you shoot
again, just keeping everything the same as when you shoot. Now
the other thing is you have what's called an inner limb
response. So that basically means you cannot reach full grip
strength in one hand, if you also do not squeeze the other
hand. And this also comes into play with exercise. So people,
for instance, that break an arm can exercise with the good arm,
and they'll build muscle in the other arm. That's called an
inner limb response. So we want to make sure that we have good
grip on the gun with the one hand that we're using. So with
that, you'll see I take my hand and I'm just going to squeeze
it. And I do it like this, because I did martial arts for
most of my life since I was 12 years old. So I'm used to doing
this. But if you have kit-on, you can grab that you can really
grab anything, but just squeeze that hand. Now with the can't
that that people teach. If you feel it's just a lot more
comfortable to cant the gun, go ahead and do it. But it's
usually only going to be a few degrees, it's not going to be
gangster style like this, okay, you still want to be able to use
your sights and everything else to be able to hit your target.
Now the next piece of advice I have for you something you can
try is rather than keeping your thumb straight, some people find
it better to turn their thumb up. So rather than keeping it
straight, like I normally shoot here, bring that thumb up. And
what that's going to do is it's going to give you a little bit
of extra pressure on that side of the firearm that you've taken
away when you take that hand away. So next up is because we
are taking away some of the support of the gun. By removing
that hand, we want to make sure that we are really torqued in
with our wrists. So what I mean by that is, you want to make
sure that your wrist is turned forward like that. And here's
why when the gun goes off, it's going to go like this, right?
Because it's going to come up. Here's our hinge point right
here. So we want to get our hand up as high as possible on there.
And then we also want to put as much support down on the bottom
of the grip as possible. So to do both of those things, all I
need to do is push my wrist forward, so I'm kind of cranking
it forward or torquing it forward and that's going to help
give you an mechanical advantage when you're shooting one handed.
Alright, so the last thing that I want to show you in this video
is something that you need to think about if you are switching
hands and shooting with the other hand. Now of course you
want to do everything the same on the other side. But what a
lot of people forget is to switch their feet. So for
instance, If I shoot like this with my right hand, if I want to
switch to my left hand, now all the power that's going to come
back through this when the gun goes off is not set properly,
but it will be set properly, if I shift my feet, so I'm
mirroring everything I'm mirroring my upper body and my
lower body or my platform. So now I have a stronger shooting
position, right, and when I shoot left handed, I do cant the
gun a little bit, it just works out better for me. But it's also
because I switch to my left eye and use that to shoot when I'm
shooting left handed, so you can try that out. But either way,
make sure you're practicing these things practice at home.
And then when you've got it down and you feel comfortable, of
course, go to the range and practice it there.
But either way, I hope you've learned something today. And
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