Hey guys I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog and founder of the new rules
of marksmanship training system in this video I'm going to teach you the
standing position with the carbine now let's go ahead and get started
the standing position with the carbine is probably one of the positions that
you're gonna find yourself in most often it's a position that's very quick to get
into and out of and it's also a position that you can easily maneuver from where
kneeling or sitting or definitely prone they're harder to get into and they're
also harder to move from keep that in your mind when you're thinking about
these different positions and how you're gonna use them to be most effective so
with any position you always want to start off with your base and in this
case that's our feet so we want to start off with our feet about shoulder width
apart maybe a little more just what's ever comfortable for you to just stand
there right now is the best time for you to think about your natural point of aim
which just means I want to keep my hips pointed directly up my target this is a
fighting stance I just happen to be fighting with a gun so if I want to
throw a punch for instance I want to make sure that I have something driving
from the back that I can bring that up from so I'm right-handed my right foot
drops back my toe of my back foot is going to be about even with the heel of
my left foot in this instance so now I want to bend my knees and here you're
probably gonna need to adjust your toes a little bit now I warned you not to
turn especially this back toe out too much a lot of people do that and by
doing that my natural point of aim is way over here now so I don't want to do
that any amount that I open up with this toe right here I also need to open up
here with this toe and I can do that either by turning the toe out or
bringing the heel in obviously whatever is easiest for you but get into a stance
that you feel like if somebody bigger than you is gonna come tackle you that's
how you would be standing up now that my base is set the next thing I want to do
is just put my nose over my toes so that means I'm just leaning forward a little
bit so I feel the weight on the toes of my feet I'm not on my heels I'm not
flat-footed I'm like ready to go and in this case I'm ready to shoot this gun
right here now next up is putting the buttstock
into your chest or put it directly below your eyeball
what a lot of people will do is with the gun out here on their shoulder and
that's when you see people shooting like this if you shoot like that your gun is
too far out and that's definitely going to become a problem if you try shooting
on your reaction side or switching shoulders if I put the gun where it
should be which is directly below my eye all I need to do now to see my sights is
just do that little nose over toes leaning forward and I pick up the sights
instantly if you have a hard time finding your sights that's because the
buttstock is in the wrong place so make sure you're putting it in the right
place all right so next let's talk about your grip so there's obviously two
places we are gripping the gun the pistol grip in the back you're gonna
grip that just like you would your pistol okay so I'm not gonna cover that
here but what I do want to cover is your grip with your reaction hand or you
support him now this hand right here is used to drive the gun so that means if I
want to shoot at different targets I'm doing it all with this hand right here
so that's why it's so critical because we want this hand to remain on fire
control so all this is doing is making sure that we're manipulating the trigger
properly manipulating the safety properly doing all that stuff okay so
with this what you need to do to set up first off is make sure you do this with
a clean gun what I mean is don't have any sights on here optics or anything
you just want to be able to grip the gun properly because sometimes what I find
is people will put on sights and lasers and all this crazy stuff and then
they'll go oh there's no place for my hand to go and that's usually when you
see people shooting like this but we want to get this support hand as far out
as safely possible to be able to support the front of the gun because we want our
support systems to be as far back okay so that's where our buttstock goes and
then is far forward okay just be careful that you don't grab the barrel right
there it can get hot and now is when I would mount my optics okay my hands as
far forward as possible I have some part of my hand on top of the gun because
this gun is going to go up when it goes bang so I want to control that with
part of my hand the next thing I want to show you is critical and you will see a
lot of people will have their elbow down when they shoot and what you're doing if
your elbow is down in any manner like this you have created a hinge point to
actually help the gun go up when you shoot so a lot of people will say oh
there's so much recoil well that's because you're making it easy for the
gun so what I want you to do is take your elbow from here and just rotate it
out I'm in my position here I grab the gun make sure that I rotate this out
I've got some part of my hand on top and that is a good standing shooting
position with the carbine make sure that you practice this at home getting into
and out of this position get comfortable with it and then take it to the range
don't go to the range and try learning to do this while you're shooting that is
it for today and until next time keep paving your path to perfection hey guys
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