Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, what is going on Chris Sajnog here retired
Navy Seal and founder of the SEAL training system. In this
video, I want to teach you why sight alignment is more
important than trigger control. Now let's go ahead and get
started. Joining me now is retired Navy SEAL sniper Chris
Sajnog. So one of the most interesting debates that I see
going on online, is the debate between what's more important,
is it trigger control, or is it site alignment, and I believe
and I hope to show you with some evidence here that it is site
alignment is always going to be more important than trigger
control. Alright, so first up, let me just exaggerate this. So
you can quickly grasp why it's more important. And hopefully,
this will click with you, if you are on the trigger side of the
debate, you're either going to look at it and you're gonna go,
you know what that makes sense. Or you're going to go wait a
minute, that's, that's not right. And you'll find some
reason why it's not right. And I'll go back and hopefully
address those after this. So I have my handy cert pistol here,
let's just again, exaggerate and talk about this debate and see
which one is more important. So I am on the side that says
making sure that these sites are aligned is more important than
how this trigger well how my finger moves, right, because
we're talking about trigger finger manipulating that
trigger. So if I were to take these sights and say you're my
target right here, but my sights are off over here, remember I
said I was going to exaggerate my sights are not aligned with
where I want them to be. But I'm going to caress this trigger so
perfectly, it is just going to so smoothly move to the rear
until the sear releases, and oh, the round went off. But guess
what, I missed my target. How can that be? Because I practiced
perfect trigger control. I manipulated that trigger so
nicely, I didn't pull it right, because some people don't like
the word pulling the trigger. I didn't push the trigger. I
caressed it back to the rear. However I did it, it was
perfect. But guess what these little pieces of metal were not
aimed at my target properly. The other side of that would be I am
going to line up these sights perfectly again, unfortunately,
you're my target here in this one, and I put my gun in a vise
and I crank down the vise. So no matter what happens, these
sights cannot move, right because I am of the school that
sight alignment is more important. Now with this in
advice and my sights perfectly aligned, I could take a stick
from over here and just poke at the trigger until the gun goes
bang. But because these sights are perfectly aligned, and
they're not moving, I am going to hit my target. So you guys
see the difference over here, perfect. Trigger manipulation,
miss my target here, perfect sight alignment, do whatever I
want to that trigger, it doesn't matter. What matters is that
these are aligned, that's what those pieces of metal are up on
the top of your firearm for is to be able to align with your
target and be able to hit it. What I need to address is what I
talked about earlier. So hopefully, you were like big
picture. Okay, I got it. Yeah, that is more important. But if
you're like, Yeah, well, you're not going to be pointing your
gun sideways. Well, okay, well, let's just say that I'm pointing
in the general direction of my target, I go to press back on
the trigger. But as I press back, my gun moves for whatever
reason, my grip is not correct. My finger placement is not
correct. It doesn't matter the reason but when I press that
back, the gun is moving. And my sights become unaligned. So you
will hear people say and maybe you say this yourself, the
reason trigger control is so critically important is to what
what's that saying? What? Yes, to not disturb the site's people
say it's trigger manipulation, trigger pull. trigger control is
so important, because you don't want to disturb the sights. So
I'm simply saying, guess what? You gave me the argument in your
argument, right? So I'm just saying, Yeah, let's just not
disturb the sights. So it doesn't matter whether it's from
your trigger finger or from any other reason, your grip, what's
important is your sight alignment.
sound kind of silly at first, but what I mean is when I'm
going to shoot, I am using my eyes, obviously, to make sure
that my sights are aligned and what I'm doing because I've
trained so much my eyes are subconsciously telling my mind.
Alright, the sights are perfectly aligned. And when my
mind hears that, it subconsciously tells my finger
that it's safe to move back. But if that finger or my grip turns
My eyes are going to detect that and they're going to say, okay,
stop moving the trigger. Let's wait till they become alive
again. And then you can start moving that trigger finger
again. And that is why this works. Alright, that is it for
today. Hopefully, this demonstration has taught you the
importance of sight alignment over trigger control. If you
don't believe it, go to a range tested out yourself. If you're
going to point the gun that way, just make sure that is a safe
direction as you pull that trigger back perfectly trying to
prove your point. But again, that is it. I hope this has
helped you out and until next time, keep paving your path to
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