Standing Shooting Position with the Carbine
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 the standing shooting 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 going to find yourself in most often. It’s a position that’s very quick to get into and out of. It’s also a position that you can easily maneuver from.
#1 Base Position
So with any position, you always want to start off with your base. In this case, that’s our feet. So we want to start off with our feet about shoulder width apart, maybe a little more.
You want to think about your natural point of aim, which just means you want to keep your hips pointed directly at your target. If you are right-handed, your right foot drops back about a foot. You want to bend your knees and you’re probably going to need to adjust your toes a little bit.
Get into a stance where you feel like somebody bigger than you is going to come and tackle you. That’s how you would be standing. Now that your base is set, the next thing you want to do is just put your nose over your toes. So that means you are just leaning forward a little bit.
#2 Buttstock Position
Now next up is putting the buttstock into your chest. You also want to put it directly below your eyeball. What a lot of people will do is put the gun out on their shoulders. That’s when you see people shooting will their heads titled a lot.
If you shoot like that your gun is too far out. And that’s definitely going to become a problem. If you place the buttstock right below your eye, you don’t have to tilt your head, you can just look straight into the sights.
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.
#3 The Grip
Alright, so next in this standing shooting position, let’s talk about your grip. So there are obviously two places we are gripping the gun. You’re going to grip the back just like you would your pistol.
Your other hand is used to drive the gun. So that means if you want to shoot at different targets, you are doing it all with your support hand.
First off, make sure you do this with a clean gun. What I mean is don’t have any sights on your gun. You just want to be able to grip the gun properly. 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.”
You want to get your support hand as far out as safely possible to be able to support the front of the gun. You want to have some part of your hand on top of the gun because it will go up when it goes bang.
#4 Elbow Position
A lot of people will have their elbows down when they shoot. What you’re doing if your elbow is down is creating a hinge point to actually help the gun go up when you shoot.
A lot of people will say, “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 and just rotate it out. Just doing that, will help a lot with recoil when shooting.
That is a good standing shooting position with the carbine. Make sure that you practice this at home. Get comfortable with your position, 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. Until next time, keep paving your path to perfection.
