it going guys welcome back to the pilot Patriot Channel now recently I decided
to do a series of videos that really gets back to the basics and this is
going to be for new shooters inexperienced shooters those kind of
people we're going to go over things like grip stance trigger control that
kind of thing so if you're interested in that makes you hit that subscribe button
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upload new videos now this video today we're going to talk about the proper way
to grip a handgun now it doesn't matter if you've been shooting your whole life
you grew up around guns I've seen people that say that to me and they're still
getting that grip wrong no your grip is one of those fundamental things that
could throw off the rest of your shooting maybe you're just naturally a
good shooter and you can go out to the range and get those eight-inch groups
all day long but I'll promise you if you can get that grip right you're going to
shrink those groups down a lot now I've seen a lot of really interesting things
when you talk about grip I've seen people do the old that right there you
see that one a whole lot with that hand just supporting on the bottom that is
not the right way to grip your handgun I've seen the wrist support grip that
kind of thing no don't do that and obviously you're gonna see things like
you see in the movies you're gonna see something like that right there now one
other thing you will see quite a bit is you'll see people that want to get that
thumb back here behind the gun now there are a couple reasons why this is not
good one obvious one is that the way that's going to operate is that slide
comes back with a whole lot of force when you fire the gun so if your thumb
is back here behind the slide and that slide comes back and bites that thumb
you're gonna have a really bad day so you definitely don't want to do that now
today we're going to be using my new MMP Pro I've been looking for a good reason
to show this thing off so that's the first time you're going to see it in one
of my video I have done some upgrades to it you'll
see that done the grip tape on the grips I know they've y'all have seen my video
of that if you haven't you go check it out I'll put it right here at the top of
the screen now a good hand gun grip starts with a good one-handed grip and
we're gonna get started with that right now now just to show you this hand gun
is unloaded and the first thing you want to think about is you want to get that
web of your hand up as high on that back strap as possible you can get it way on
up there just press it into the top of that back strap there you're gonna wrap
your bottom three fingers around now you also you want to get those three fingers
up high and tight against that trigger guard the best you can the higher your
grip is on the gun the more control you're going to have over that gun and
as far as your thumb goes you and just want to rest your thumb straight along
the side of the gun and one thing a lot of people don't think about is where
you're putting that pressure at on the gun now you don't want to put all your
pressure here on your fingertips because what that's going to do is that's going
to pull the gun to the left you want to put all your pressure right here on the
center of these fingers pushing straight back into the butt of your hand
that's going to give you the most stable grip where you're not pulling the gun
one way or the other while you're shooting a nice even pressure straight
through the middle to the back of your hand and obviously if we flip around
here you never want to put your finger inside the trigger guard until you're
ready to shoot you want to keep that finger just rested right along the frame
of the gun straight forward and remember always keep your muzzle pointed in a
safe direction now like I said before your main concern is controlling this
gun no matter what size gun you're shooting small big what caliber it
doesn't matter we all know that every gun is going to want to recoil it's
going on a jump right out of your hand and your goal is to try to control that
and keep it as flat as possible while shooting now that's why you want to get
that hand up as high as you can on that back strap what that's going to do is
that's going to put most of that force straight back into your hand and give
you the ability to hold that gun as flat as possible you know just imagine if you
had your hand way down here on the grip or you're not up high you're lower in
that pivot point so when that gun starts to recoil it has a lot more room to move
because you're lowering that pivot point down halfway down the grip obviously if
you get way down here it gets even worse one thing you're going to see when you
start doing that is you're going to start getting malfunctions because this
gun isn't designed to do all that movement your goal is to get that
webbing of that hand high and tight get full control of that gun and try to
prevent that recoil the best you can now your proper grip starts with a good one
handed grip but most of us shoot with two hands so when you get that second
hand in there and there's a few things you need to think about like I mentioned
earlier a lot of times you'll see something like this or like this or like
this and none of those are right and there's a reason for that now think
about if your hand is right here that's basically nothing more than a supported
one-handed grip this hand does nothing to control that gun all it's doing is
giving you some support on the bottom but it's not helping you control that
gun at all same thing with that wrist grip that you see that may help you walk
that wrist and having a good lock wrist is important but it's not as important
as getting that hand up here and really controlling that gun so one thing you
see right off that is you see this gap that's created in between my fingers and
the butt of my hand here what you want to do with that second hand is you want
to get the butt of your support hand and you want to put it right there and fill
that gap your goal is to get as much of your hand on that gun as possible so you
can control it so you're going to take the butt of that set that support hand
you're gonna put it right there in that gap you're gonna wrap those bottom four
fingers around over top of your strong hand fingers and just like the
one-handed grip you want to get it up as high on that trigger guard as possible
that's just going to help you get more support now with that support hand thumb
you're just going to lay it straight along the frame a lot of you'll hear a
lot of people say thumbs forward on that's a good way to think about it and
with that strong hand thumb you're just going to rest it right on top of that
support hand thumb now as you can see when you have this grip right here
I have that gun completely encased in my hands I have full control of this gun
there's not one part of my hands that isn't touching the firearm give you the
view from the other side as you can see those fingers are high and tight the
webbing between my thumb and forefinger are up high got those fingers forward I
have as much of my hands as possible completely encasing that firearm and
that's what a proper two-handed grip looks like and one thing to consider
with your thumbs especially on smaller guns is you want to make sure that this
thumb isn't rested completely on that slide lock there because if it is what
could happen is after you fire that last round when your slide is supposed to
lock back if your thumb is rested on there holding it down it's not going to
allow your slide to lock back and you may think you have an extra round in the
gun when it's really empty so what I like to do I still want to get most of
it on the gun but I'll just rest it on top of those fingers they're more like
that and as you can see I still have complete control of that gun I have as
much of my fingers and my hands on that gun as possible
now a couple other considerations with a semi-automatic handgun especially with
smaller guns as a couple things that you may see different you may see people do
something like this whether they're doing they're getting these three
fingers up high and they're taking the index finger and they're wrapping it
around the trigger guard you do see that quite a bit and I don't really see a
problem with that especially on smaller guns when you're really trying to get as
much of your hand on there as possible that's a good way to do it as long as it
doesn't interfere with that trigger finger and I did forget to bring a
smaller gun with me today but I should be able to demonstrate it just fine on
this gun one concern people have let's just imagine that this is a smaller gun
one concern people have is when they have smaller grips they can't get that
pinky on the grip and that concerns them they think they can't shoot that gun as
well they need to get a bigger gun to be able to shoot it properly don't worry
about that don't worry about that pinky so much it is nice to you
all the fingers on the grip that helps but there's no reason you can't still
wrap that pinky around the bottom and still get your good grip so don't let
that pinky hanging off scare you you can still get a perfectly good grip without
that pinky fully on the grip now for you revolvers guys the grip is no different
for a revolver you still want to get the webbing of that hand up as high on that
back strap as possible you still want to get these fingers up as high as possible
underneath that trigger guard a lot of revolvers actually have this undercut
here that lets you get those fingers even higher up and then when you go back
to the two-handed grip it's exactly the same you're still filling that gap
you're still getting these fingers all the way under there the one difference
is you want to make sure you don't rest that thumb on the cylinder because you
don't want to prevent it from being able to function like it's supposed to so you
are probably going to get these thumbs down a little bit lower it's even
acceptable to switch these thumbs if you want to switch those thumbs like that do
something like this that's okay especially with revolvers what that's
going to do is allow you to operate that hammer with your support hand without
messing up that good one-handed grip that you already have so now if I'm
working the hammer with my strong hand I'm partially breaking my grip if I'm
doing it with my support hand thumb I can still fire as fast as I want to
without breaking that good one-handed grip that I already have then once
you've learned how to get a proper grip on your gun go out to the range I
guarantee you'll start to see tighter groups you'll start to shoot a whole lot
better I go out to the range and have some fun thanks for watching guys I hope
this videos helped you out if you're new to shooting or if you're just looking
for a way to shoot better hopefully this video showing you how to get the proper
grip on your handgun now like I said this is going to be a
series we're going to do some other fundamentals type videos basic handgun
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