Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm retired Navy SEAL chief Chris Sajnog and
founder of The New Rules of marksmanship training system. In
this video, I'm going to teach you how focusing on the front
sight works when you're shooting moving targets. Now let's go
ahead and get started. Joining me now is retired Navy SEAL
sniper Chris Sajnog so I wanted to put this video together
because I've got so many of you that understand that it's
important to focus on the front sight if you actually want to
hit your target. But I do get a lot of comments where people
say, Yeah, Chris, that works great on paper targets or
Bullseye targets. But it does not work on moving targets or
combat shooting. And I am here to give you evidence and prove
to you that not only can it be done, but it should be done if
you actually want to hit that target. Now before we get
started, we need to agree on a couple of ballistic truths are
number one, when you shoot an open sight system, or a two
plane sighting systems, every time you pull the trigger, you
need to align the sights to be able to hit your target. And
that is because of fact number two, there are only two ways
that you can miss a target when you're shooting a two plane
sighting system. And those are Angular and parallel shift
errors. Now an angular error means that from the time the
bullet leaves the gun, it's deviating at an angle towards
its target, you could completely miss your target very easily
with an angular shifter. Now with a parallel shift, error,
what's happening is your sight alignment is perfect. So the
bullet is going to go exactly where you're aiming, but you are
not aiming at the exact spot that you want to hit. So for
instance, if you wanted to hit the center of a target, but you
were actually aiming two inches above that, that's where your
round is going to hit, but it's going to be on a parallel path.
So no matter how far away it is, you're still only going to miss
by those two inches. All right. Now the last thing that I hope
we can agree on is that when you have a firearm with a short
sight radius here, and your sight radius is the distance
between your rear sight or the rear plane, and the front sight
or the front plane, the shorter that is, the easier it is going
to be to miss your target. So for instance, on a firearm like
this, I could be off in my aiming alignment of my front
sight by just an eighth of an inch, and at 10 yards away, I
could completely miss my target. So if you have a very small
sight radius, you need to aim even more precise to be able to
hit your target. And then that also means that the further the
distance gets, your misses are going to get bigger
exponentially. And we definitely don't want that. But of course,
I'm here to show you that there's a way to fix all of
that. Alright, so to prove it to you and show the difference
between sight alignment and sight picture and why it's so
critical on a moving target, I want you to go grab a level of
some type, so something with a bubble in it. And all you need
to do is get somebody to watch you. And we're going to try one
of two ways either looking at our target as it's moving and
trying to keep our level straight or flat, we want to
keep that bubble right in the middle. And then I'm going to do
it the other way where I'm looking at the bubble, and I'm
using my awareness to track the target. So I'm using my focus is
going to be on the bubble and then we can say that's our sight
alignment. And then the awareness is going to be our
sight picture that's tracking our target, okay, and then have
somebody watch behind you when you're doing both of them. So
the first one have them watched to see what that bubble does.
Okay, so it's going to look like this. So I am not looking at the
bubble and I'm going to track my imaginary target and I'm trying
to keep my bubble straight. I guarantee that that bubble did
not stay in the middle and remember if it's off of its mark
there if the bubble is out of center by even an eighth of an
inch, you can completely miss your target. Now the other way
you can do it is now I'm going to focus on the bubble which
would be my front sight and it's still going to be hard with this
bubble.
But now I can move and I'm constantly having to adjust
which is what you want to do when you're shooting is
constantly adjusting your your aim but the bubble is staying
closer to the center and we can even do that with our firearm as
a training tool to make sure that our gun is center and level
as we're shooting. It's actually easier for me to do that with
the level on my firearm just because I'm used to shooting a
firearm more than I'm used to holding a level out in front of
me. Alright, so try that at home. So have somebody watch you
doing both of those. And hopefully this will convince you
and prove to you that not only can you focus on your front
sight when you're shooting a moving target or a dynamic
target or a combat situation, whatever you want to call it,
but you should, especially if you want to hit your target,
which I think is important, and I'm sure you do too. So that is
all I have for you today. And until next time, keep paving
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