5 tips for first time shooters w/ Lena Miculek!

hi guys i'm lena mitchulik and today i'm here with brayden and no we did not plan our matching shirts this was a coincidence we were out here filming something else but it turns out that you haven't shot much before i have not no this would be once i pull the trigger it'll be my second time ever shooting a gun second time ever shooting a gun and we're gonna go film a little fun competition over there but before i want to give you some tips i want to work with you on shooting what we're going to start working with today is a sig sauer x5 legion pistol we're going to go ahead and start with iron sights because it's how most guns start mine looks a little different than the standard one because it has a glittery grip completely unloaded slide is down before you even do eyes and ears we're just going to find our stamps and our grip are you right-handed right-handed right-handed fantastic so with our right hand we always want to make sure the beaver tail is all the way up in the web of our hands so whenever we grip we're going to come all the way up to the very tippity top now support hand i want you to take it put all your fingers together now i want you to point your thumb at your target you see how you had to rotate your wrist to do that so what that does is it helps lock this joint so now it's stronger than it would be if you were anywhere else okay so we want to make sure that we're all the way up on the gun thumb pointed at target he said the last time he shot he ripped open his thumb yeah oh you have a scar he has a nice scar look at this learning moment right here seven stitches oh geez you are serious oh yeah 100 okay i'm going to say you grab the gun like this with the thumb around the back so to avoid that that's why these thumbs come up here and hold them high thumbs on either side of the gun thumb on top of thumb just like that all right now what i'm going to do is push on you and i just want you to keep moving your feet and keep fighting me until i can't move you okay so it's a fantastic way to teach someone how to find a stance because it's very unique to who you are as a person so i'm just gonna take my two fingers i'm gonna go on the trigger guard i'm just gonna push back now don't let me push you okay move your feet try a little bit more just move around ready yep there you go so he is solid so he can shoot from where he stands now now what i'm going to do is switch them just a little bit try putting this foot forward the slight stagger get it up there like yeah move that one just a little bit back a little bit further back now think about putting that weight in the balls of your feet kind of like in your toes now i'm going to push on you you got your sights there is it easier to fight me yeah yeah i can i can't even move you now so we have found the same level of recoil control but what we've done is we found an easier way to achieve it now i want you to bring that sight up to your eye very good are you left side or right eye dominant we don't know i don't know ah place that gun down let's figure it out we have two eyeballs and just like our hands we have a dominant one so until we know which one that is we don't know where to aim so there's a little test that you do with the easiest one as an instructor is for you to put your glass on top of your head so i can see your eyeballs and i want you to point at my nose when you close your left eye is it on my nose when you close your right eye it's not yep there you go so you're lining things up and you're siding with your right eye fascinating oh yeah so now you know so let's try that again now bring that little green dot up to your eye and if i go like this you should still be able to see that green dot in that notch boom find it there we go can anybody go like this yep there you go so this green dot not only needs to be in that notch but flat across the top okay and that is that now the gun is completely unloaded what i want you to do is just put your finger on the trigger and we're going to dry fire the gun won't go off there's nothing in it we're just going to play with this gun get to know it a little bit before we shoot there you go whenever you're ready smooth press on that trigger slow and steady very nice we're going to do that one more time we're gonna dry fire [Music] beautiful beautiful i'll be honest i freaked out there for a second that's why we're warming up all right we don't have time for a whole lot more but once you take your hands arms straight push your palms together i want you to push your palms together as hard as you can when you're shooting this is pretty much what your arms look like now what i want you to do is start to bring your palms back to your chest pushing as hard as you can pushing pushing as hard as you can okay so you pop do you feel how much more strength you have in your hands here than out here so what we're going to do is find a happy medium so i usually shoot right about there and my elbows are out to the side because if my elbows are underneath now i have a giant lever and that recoil is going to want to do this and the only way i can fight it is with muscle so if i rotate my elbows slightly now we can push our palms together we have a little bit more strength our bone structure will help mitigate the recoil and everything will be just a little bit easier okay bam all right we went through stance and a good grip we found our dominant eye we then went to elbows in arm position we pushed our hands together to find our point of strength and recoil mitigation with our bone structure i feel like we've got a few check check check now we're ready to shoot yes all right so now as slow as you want put your finger on the trigger smooth press think just keep it rolling [Music] yes not only did he hit it but he broke it he just won so yeah well that was fun we got our first shot off no you're not done yet don't oh no okay but you did it okay now when you did it you hit exactly where you're aiming we feel good we feel solid all of our hands we have no blood no stitches no stitches today we're off to a good start all right so now you have a big hole in that target so let's aim at this other black target the big one on the right should we go yeah whenever you're ready smooth press nice nice there we go nice [Music] there we go right fingers straight and you can lay it down thank you for nicely done getting over that fear so there you go not only do we match in shirts now we both shoot guns too so that's cool thank you lina you're welcome

Channel: Sportsman's Warehouse

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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 31 2022