Shoot Like a Navy SEAL

Question 1

What are the seven fundamentals of marksmanship?

Answer 1

1) Shooting platform
2) Grip
3) Sight refinement
4) Sight picture
5) Breathing
6) Trigger control
7) Follow- through

Question 2

What are the four gun safety rules?

Answer 2

1. Treat every gun as if it were loaded, regardless of perceived or actual condition.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
3. Always keep a gun pointed in a safe direction and never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
4. Be sure of your target and know your target’s foreground and background.

Question 3

What are the steps to ensure your pistol is unloaded (do this everytime a firearm leaves your hand, is cleaned, handed to you by another person, transported, or stored)?

Answer 3

1. Verify loaded chamber indicator is showing not loaded by looking into the hole at the rear of the barrel.
2. Grasp pistol with finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard. Point the muzzle in a safe direction depress the magazine release, and remove the magazine.
3. Grasp serrated sides of the slide from the rear with the thumb and fingers, and briskly draw the slide rearward in order to extract any cartridge from the chamber and clear it from the pistol.
4. Lock the slide in the open position by allowing the slide to move slightly forward from the rearmost position while pressing upward on the slide stop.
5. Check the barrel chamber to verify it is unloaded and check the bore visually for any obstructions.
6. Examine the breech face to ensure the firing pin is not protruding.

Question 4

How to shoot like a Navy SEAL

Answer 4

1) Always shoot with a positive attitude
2) Have an open mind
3) Have a plan
4) Train every day
5) Train to your weakness
6) Dry fire
7) Use a range book

Question 5

What are the three elements of any good shooting platform?

Answer 5

1) Bone support
2) Muscular relaxation
3) Natural point of aim

Question 6

How do you find your natural point of aim?

Answer 6

1) Take any shooting position and mount your weapon.
2) once the sight picture is established, close your eyes, take a deep breath and exhale to your normal respiratory pause.
3) Concentrate on making your body completely relaxed. Doing this will cause the gun to fall to your natural point of aim.
4) If your gun is clear and safe, use this opportunity to dry fire.
5) Open your eyes and adjust your position by shifting you lower body until the gunpoints to the target at the exact point where you want the bullet to strike. Do not make any adjustments using muscle; even very minor adjustments must be made with the lower body.
6) Go through steps 2-5 until, when you open your eyes, your sights are exactly where you want them.

Question 7

What is the proper standing pistol stance?

Answer 7

1) Stand with feet shoulder-width apart (feet can be wider if it feels better), toes pointed toward the target, knees slightly bent (5-10 degrees).
2) Drop the strong-side leg straight back until the toes are in line with the heel of the other foot. Again, you can slide this foot back farther to get into a more aggressive stance.
3) Both arms are fully extended and locked straight out but not over-extended. If you extend your shoulders out of the socket, you lose strength from your larger chest and back muscles. You should also not have any tension in the biceps when you arms are extended. You should shoot from wherever your arms naturally stop when extended. “Locked” does not mean tense.
4) The head is upright, leaning forward (nose over toes) at the waist.
5) Bring the sights to the eyes.
6) Shoulders, arms, hands and gun will be in a straight line.
7) The barrel of the gun will be in line with the shooter’s spine.

Question 8

What are the elements of a proper pistol grip?

Answer 8

1. Forearm of strong hand in line with barrel of pistol
2. Hand as high up on the gun as possible
3. Wrap hand around gun
4. Place support / reaction hand palm in space on grip, angled down 45 degrees
5. No space between palms, pressure equal between hands
6. Both thumbs pointed toward Target

Question 9

How can you check for a proper pistol grip?

Answer 9

1. Let go with the bottoms of both hands and the gun should hang straight down.
2. Point the gun straight up in front of your face. The trigger finger should be straight across from the reaction hand thumb.
3. You should be able to support a pistol only with your reaction hand.
4. You don’t need to adjust your grip between shots.
5. Your sights come back in the same way after recoil.
6. You’re shooting consistent groups.

Question 10

What are the steps of a proper follow-through in shooting?

Answer 10

1. Call the shot
2. Stay relaxed and do not react to the sound or movement of the weapon.
3. Maintain shooting platform to include head position.
4. Maintain proper grip.
5. Re-acquire sight alignment after your muzzle settles.
6. Continue holding the trigger to the rear for a split second.
7. Re-acquire sight picture
8. Let out the trigger only until it resets.
9. Prep the trigger for follow-on shots if needed.

Question 11

How do you call your shot?

Answer 11

Imagine you are taking a picture with a camera and the trigger is the shutter release button. When the flash goes off (bang), you’ve got your picture, what the sight picture looked like.