Hey guys I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor Chris Sajnog founder
of the new rules of marksmanship in this video I'm gonna teach you how to do a
proper magazine reload with your pistol let's go ahead and get started
all right so doing a proper magazine reload with your pistol can be crucial
whether it be during a competition or a life-or-death situation that you may
find yourself in learning how to do it is really easy if you follow these
simple steps that I'm going to teach you right now when you practice this at home
where you should practice make sure that your weapon has been cleared and safe
and you're following all firearm safety rules so I have my pistol here and I
have some empty magazines and they have some inert rounds in them some practice
dummy rounds so you can use those at home too just make sure there's no live
ammunition in your weapon in your magazine or I suggest even in the room
that you're training in I'm gonna be teaching what's called a slide lock
reload so I've fired all my rounds and the magazine is empty now it's sad it
wants me to fill it back up with some more rounds so I'm gonna do that when it
comes to a reload the first thing that you need to do is realize that there's a
need to reload and when you first start shooting especially I've seen plenty of
shooters out there who simply don't realize that their gun isn't going bang
when they pull the trigger and they just keep squeezing the trigger and this can
happen to in one of those life-or-death situations or even a competition when
you have a lot of stress going on okay so that's the first thing is recognition
so practicing just the fact that you have a magazine that needs to be
reloaded is a great thing to do so how do you do that first off you should
learn to notice that slide comes back and it's gonna feel different than a
normal shot number two is you should be able to see that your gun is not in line
like it normally looks if you're staring at these sights properly you're gonna
notice that difference number three if you need to what you can do is you can
just can't the gun up just a little bit and then I can see that that chamber is
empty just with a little camp right there the next thing that I want to do
obviously is get this reloaded as fast as possible so the first thing that I
need to do is get get the empty magazine out of my weapon so I'm going to
start bringing this gun back into my workspace so my workspace is this area
right in here I've got my elbow indexed along either
my body or some part of my gear I want to do that because if I need to move
around or if I'm in the dark every time I do a reload no matter where it is I
know where that magazine needs to go it's right here I can run like this and
look around and reload my magazine if I need to the other thing that I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna keep my muzzle in line with my target because that's the
straightest most direct line so it's gonna be the fastest always remember
eyes muzzle target you always want to do that if my targets moving well I'm
reloading I'm gonna be keeping my eyes in my muzzle in line with that target
and I can do that easily because I'm indexing my elbow along my body while I
do that I'm gonna be dropping my magazine so all I need to do is press on
my magazine release right here and it's gonna fall out now if you have smaller
hands and you can't reach and get that rotate the gun in your hand
with your support hand don't flip it out of your hand because if I flip it out of
my hand it's not gonna be in the same place every time so when I go to regrip
my gun it's not going to be the same grip that I had before I did my reload
if I need to I roll it as I come back and then as I go forward I'm gonna roll
it with that same hand back into the exact same position and that's gonna
give you the same grip that you started with
you want to stay consistent after you do your reload with your grip with that
said as I start to bring it back I'm just gonna hit that and use the inertia
of the magazine well as pointed down and as I do it I'm reaching for my first
magazine which I call is in my sweet spot now my sweet spot is the first
magazine pistol that I'm always going to go to in an emergency so I'm gonna reach
and grab that one out now I'll tell you later on when you have time you should
move your other magazines closer to your gun move them towards your sweet spot so
that's gonna save me time next time I can go to the exact same place that I
went to definitely practice getting them from other places but when
you have time move your ammunition towards your gun if you have extra
magazines up on your gear if you're in the military and law enforcement do the
same thing have a sweet spot always use that when possible so I'm here I drop my
magazine as I'm doing that I'm reaching I'm bringing it back and I want to reach
and grab this with the palm of my hand on to the top of the magazine I don't
want to pull it out like this I want to pull it out like this
and point at that first round inside of that magazine and that's called indexing
the magazine the reason you want to do this is because this finger is going to
know and point exactly where you want it to go I drop my magazine I bring it back
into my workspace I'm indexing I'm looking up I muzzle target and I'm
bringing it closer to where it needs to go now one thing that I want you to do
is glance down right at the last second right before it goes in that's critical
because you want to make sure that it goes in you don't want to miss and keep
trying to get this thing because you're looking at the target and you're nervous
and you're scared or whatever bring it in I'm looking up right before I know
it's going to go in I look down and as soon as I see it going in my eyes are
back up on my target eyes muzzle target continue guiding the magazine until it's
about halfway in because sometimes what will happen is it'll start to go in and
if I don't guide it it'll get caught sideways in there and you're going to be
fighting it so glance down guide it in eyes go back up and seek the magazine
heart roll this back out and as I do I'm gonna release the slide and continue
shooting so that is how you do a magazine reload what I want you to do
when you practice this is I want you to chunk it into the smallest portions
possible now chunking means breaking down that movement into the smallest
parts that makes sense I noticed that I need to reload my weapon so this is
going to be my first chunk right here releasing the magazine and getting my
hand on to my new magazine so it's this movement of
making sure that every time I notice that I need to do a magazine reload it's
going to happen the same way every single time that's a chunk and then
we're gonna build another chunk on to that so that next chunk is going to be
from here to here I've brought it in I've grabbed my magazine and now I want
to practice getting it up to there and bringing my eyes down
alright so my last chunk then is going to be I've inserted the magazine I'm
looking back up I've got eye muzzle target this chunk all it's gonna be is
seating the magazine and rolling forward and being ready to shoot and that's it
just keep doing that until every time you get to this point this again is
going to be a perfect quick thing so when you go do your magazine change
you're just gonna put all those pieces of the puzzle together and you're going
to have a super fast super smooth magazine change so that is it for today
I hope this has helped you out and until next time keep paving your path to
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