Hi I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog author of Navy SEAL shooting and one of
the top 20 most frequently asked questions I get is what are the biggest
shooting errors now start your timer as I share with you five of the biggest
shooting errors and how to correct them in today's five and under 5 FAQ
alright number one on the list of shooting errors is either pushing or
pulling the trigger this happens because of this old way of teaching and telling
people that only the tip of your finger is the only thing you can put on the
trigger the instructors that will tell you this it doesn't matter how big your
hand is how big their hand is what type of gun you're shooting just for some
mysterious reason this is the magical place where it all happens
well that's not the truth you need to put your finger where it lands when you
have a good grip on the gun okay so get a good grip on the gun let the finger
land where it will because if it's not there you're either going to have too
much or too little finger on the trigger and if you have too little as you pull
the trigger back you're going to be pushing the gun over and if you have too
much of your finger on that trigger you can pull the gun over as you pull the
trigger so you don't want to do either of those obviously you want to pull the
trigger straight back to the rear so make sure you have a good grip and it's
gonna fix that pushing or pulling the trigger number two is another grip error
it is milking the grip so just like you milk a cow I'm guessing I've actually
never milked a cow even though I am from Wisconsin
but milking the grip is when you're squeezing your hand as you're pulling
the trigger and as you do this if your arm is not lined up and your wrist is
not lined up properly you're gonna actually be turning the gun as you
squeeze the trigger so you don't want to do that and again if you have a proper
grip you start off you're not gonna milk the grip and you're not going to have
that shooting error number three is either anticipating or flinching now
these are slightly different things depending on whether it happens right
before you shoot or right after you shoot but they're always caused by the
same thing and that's simply not training properly if you are flinching
or anticipating the only way you're going to get rid of that is to stop
going to the range and go back to the basics go back and do say a month of dry
fire training I've got a free app that you can download it's the seal training
app and on there I have a 30-day challenge that you can
do where I teach you how to drive fire and I guarantee if you go through that
in your anticipating or flinching before you start after 30 days when you go back
to the range that's gonna be all cleared up for you so go check that out
number 4 is looking over the sites and this usually happens I find a lot of
times especially when people are shooting on steel they want to for some
reason see where the round hits because a lot of times on paper you can't see it
but it also happens when people are shooting closer they want to see that
bullet hole in the target so make sure that you are really truly focusing on
the sights you're not just looking at the sights truly focusing on the sights
and maintain that throughout the shooting process during your
follow-through continue focusing you should see your sights go up and then
come back down and then get that focus again and that'll fix that error number
5 is simply not focusing correctly and there's lots of people out there that
say you don't even need to focus on your front sight when you're shooting a
pistol and this is just nonsense if you weren't supposed to focus on the sights
there would be no reason for all these companies to put those pieces of metal
on top of our guns so you definitely need to focus on the front sight I've
got tons of videos out there on how to focus how to improve your vision so go
check those out and learn how to actually focus on your front sight
alright that is it for today's FAQ make sure to correct any of these five
shooting errors and please check out my other 19 5 and under 5 FAQ videos to
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