Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor
Chris Sajnog, and the founder of The New Rules of marksmanship
training system. In this video, I wanted to discuss whether you
should focus on your front sight or not. Now let's go ahead and
get started.
Joining me Now is retired Navy SEAL sniper Chris Sajnog.
Alright, so when it comes to whether you should focus on your
front sight or not focus on your front sight,
there is a lot of debate going on out there. And I want to try
to clear this up for everybody. Now, when it comes to training,
I hope we can all agree that we want to train for perfection.
And I think we can also agree that there is a reason that on
your pistol, you have two pieces of metal sticking up one on the
front, and one on the back. And those are designed to make you
able to hit your target where you want it. So when you train,
you want to train to be able to focus on that front sight. So
you can hit targets that are either farther away, or they're
smaller, so you need to be more accurate. And through training
and repetition, your ability to focus and line up your sights is
going to become faster and faster. And that is what I talk
about. When I say paving your path to perfection, you're
literally building neural pathways that allow you to
quickly and smoothly do those repetitions that you've been
practicing at home. Now, on the other end of the spectrum, of
course, if you have a target that is right in front of you
say somebody comes up and pulls a gun on you, and you want to
shoot them, they're so close that you don't need to line up
your front sight, you just point your gun at them, and you're
going to shoot them because you're so close, then, of
course, you don't need to focus on your front sight. But again,
if we trained to never look at our front sights, we're not
going to be able to take those farther shots because we'd never
practiced at it. So what I have a sliding scale, and that
sliding scale for me goes to site priority focus or target
priority focus. So with site priority focus, your priority is
more crystal clear focus on your front sight. Now that's going to
be again for a target that is further away. So a long distance
shot or a target that is smaller, and you need to be more
accurate. Now on the other side of the scale, you have target
priority focus, if there is a target that's right in front of
you, your focus needs to be on that target. Again, that is
shots that are going to be so close that it's just going to
take more time to actually line up your sights and take that
shot you don't need to because it's so close. So what I want
you to do is just remember it's a sliding scale, it's not one or
the other. If it's further away, you're going to need to focus
and you're going to need to practice that way. And again, if
it's closer, you're just not going to need to use the sites
but you're able to if you need to use them. So that is it for
today. I hope that cleared up some questions that you might
have had and helped you out and until next time, keep paving
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