How to shoot a Rifle with world champion shooter, Jerry Miculek (AR15, TAVOR, & SCAR)

[Music] that right there was just beautiful I don't know if it was good for you but it was good for me party on one get some get some and I do have to say it beats a double-barrel shotgun any day of the week hi I'm Jerry Mitchell uh I've been shooting 3-gun competition the multi gun competitions for going on 30 years now so I can think of at least 50 major three gun victories and also I'm a small arms trainer I work with some of the top military units and my job there is to teach them high speed target acquisition and rapid fire but the platforms that you see here so what we're going to cover here is some basic rifle training and I'm also want to show you show you some of the products that I shoot the platforms that I practice with and what I try to achieve with each of them and why they are different so we'll start with my competition rifle and it's the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 what you notice has an 18 inch stainless steel barrel it has a Jerry Mitchell a compensator honor this is something I engineered about 20 years ago spent a lot of time on a range getting it exactly the way I wanted it it's a great compensator I haven't really seen anything yet to beat and if the price point is just unbeatable so adjustable gas block this one here the Clark custom guns carbon fiber handguard it's a very lightweight handguard what I was trying to do here is get to weight of the whole package down to where it's just where I wanted it like I said it's the Smith & Wesson M&P lower I've got a JP light and both sets the minute a taste buttstock an old a1 grip that I'd not go and check ER and off I like a small grip it has an American gold trigger in it and far as the optics one thing good about an open division rifle is I can put as many optics and anything I want on it I can have three by five seven scopes that's all illegal so in that division so what I want to do when I set this up I want to have the advantages of a rep out for close so you notice the monitor on the side so I can shoot it real quick and I can go right into my razor one by six this also is a Jerry Mitchell AK reticle in this particular model and it's got holdover calibrations off to 600 yards so and it's a 1 by 6 magnification which seems to work out really great in the in the three gun games one power you can shoot with both eyes open it also has a red dot you can you can put the you can turn the dot on and use it as a red dot scope keep both eyes open for really close quarters work and also as a reference point for you hold over so it's proven to be a really really nice package so two razor sighting systems on one rifle so that's my competition AR as you see it right here what we have next to it is an iwi tube or bullpup design it's a polymer frame basically what they're trying to do here is make this as small as a package as you can for close quarters work and in and out automobiles armored vehicles or anything of that nature 16-inch barrel magazine to the rear side ejections totally different way to hold it and totally different way to get it on target but also very a very functional package this one has the strike fire vortex red dot on it which is a very good package to put on a rifle system like this red dot pretty much meets the accuracy requirements of what you see here so it's a pretty interesting package as you see it next to it is an FN SCAR it's a five five six also it has the original FN multiple break on it I've got a u.s. optics one by four with the dot reticle is not something that I shoot often and what I want to do with this package I use it the cross train with it has the original trigger system in it which means it's pretty much a GI spec trigger it's kind of hard to shoot it's not really the way I'd have it set up for my preference but when I get into the shoot off that FN is gracious enough to sponsor we pretty much have to use their equipment so and I don't have a choice of the optic that is available at the time so I set this up different than I would my competition guns to make it as hard as possible and that's one of the aspects of cross training is to go right into a different platform and shoot it well so that's the FN and next to it another M&P 15 is a Performance Center lower this one has a hyperfine a trigger system and it's totally different than what I use it when I use in competition at the Jaypee light and grow boat a Viking tactics upper jumm compensator and another one by six vortex razor telescopic sight you notice I increased the height of the scope over the bore it's not what I usually shoot and that's why I put it that way so when I cross train I have to reference that detail and make it make it apply to the target so it's a different grip than I usually use all this is set up again guys to make it harder for me to shoot so when I go into this platform I have to adapt to it and I want to shoot it at the same level as I want to shoot my competition gun so I use this to trick myself and I use this to actually shoot matches so and what I'm trying to do here is one out practice it's not to get comfortable in any one routine or any one product because in some of the matches you have to shoot other people's equipment so that's the idea of what you see here so we're going to move this out of the way and we're going to go into some basic rifle marksmanship stances we're gonna go over some standing positions and basically I have two distinct variations of the standing position one of them is standing and shooting and the other one is gonna be on the move so anything else really does apply to what I want what I need to do so I don't do it so give me some idea I'm gonna stand and you were the target and we do have a flank chamber guys so we're totally safe or empty so if I was gonna stand and you over the target I want to stand as erect as I can what I'm trying to do again is a look through the center of my glasses if I find myself monitoring you to a target and I'm getting turtle and I'm looking through the top of the lens that gives you an indication right there that you're not have you're not having a good field of view to the targets so you want to try to keep your face as flat as you can bring the firearm to you and not you to the firearm so you're the target well Stan just about like this what I'm trying to do is keep my face as tall as I can and keep it practical into the target zone you notice this left hand I'm going to try to get my hands as far apart as I can the reasons for that is like bracing a fence post if I have both hands together like this I've lost a lot of the bracelet fact of this hand see if this was on the ground I actually had a brace going into the ground this buttstock was on board surface and this was my brace it's going to be very hard to control the end of that muzzle about brace was this long going into the ground it's a lot easier to use that brace so that's what I'm trying to do here and give that bracing effect as far as I can apart makes the control a lot easier so when I'm in the target zone another thing you notice is my left hand it's pretty much gonna be parallel to the ground my support hand I've seen different variations over some guys getting a little hard some don't I think that's all the variation of how strong you are with your support hand so there you are you have to you have to play with that and see where you are in the shooter with your right hand or your actual you're firing hand there again I want to grip as high as I can on the one on the stock a good rule of thumb is if I'm on target I think my support hand off that's about how much control on one then I come in with my we can and just straighten it up now when you're actually firing that variation of hold is going to change from platform to platform this is just a five five six it's got a good compensator on it doesn't take a whole lot of technique to keep it on target the bigger the guns the more stock they are the more muscle you're gonna need to control itself something to think about my other stance would be if I'm actually charging the target I've mounted up a little more square and that's because when I when I'm trying to walk I'm trying to advance as fast as I can and the more if I'm bladed into the target like this it's really hard to keep my feet in line with the target zone so I'm gonna stand a little bit more Square to the target come in but I'm still trying to grab it as far as I can I'm gonna get a little bit lower the reason for that is when I'm walking I'm trying to go a heel a toe and it's smoother form it's and as smooth a fashion as possible without making the end of the gun jump with each step so I'm gonna really bend my knees walk in come in just like that be surprised how fast you do it and will you keep your feet rolling and not come ever into the ground with a flat foot so to basic stance but when you get out on a range that's when you really have to tailor the needs of you to the firearm this is going to have so much of so much recoil and up to you it's going to be up to you as a shooter to start diagnosing what needs to be done with your left hand on your right hand your target is going to tell you everything that you need to correct hey guys I've got an iwi de Boer here it's a bullpup design so with your support hand on your weekend you're going to really have to change your technique a lot to make this an effective platform to the target so I'm going to staying pretty much the same way but with my support hand you notice it's gonna be a lot closer together and that's just the way it is the good thing about the way this thing is designed it weights to the rear anyway so you're not really holding up a lot of weight with your support hand is mostly gonna be back on your strong hands so that aspect of it makes for some better control than it was a standard rifle just having a weight to the rear so bring it into your shoulder stand it into the target bring it up it's the same way guys you can control with one hand just come in with your support hand you notice i'm trying to keep i'm trying to keep my vision as square as I can to the target zone and that's something that's really critical is I see through the seven of you glasses as much as you can because you start the turtle like this when you go to when you go to transfer left and right odds are you're gonna rainbow the gun and you're coming into the target in a choppy fashion you have to come over and come back up come over to come back up so the more erect you stand when you do your transfers left and right the flatter to the horizon and the quicker the transition so something to think about when you're training the other rifle again is the FN SCAR which is critical about this when you fire it guys it has a reciprocating charge handle you can mount it either left or right but every time you fire a shot that charge handle comes back at the same velocity as that both so if you have your thumb off like this but on that charge handle you cook it off your thumb is gonna take a beating but the best part of it is that thumb in a way could short stroke that rifle and if in a bad situation could have a malfunction so you want to be very critical in that aspect here to put your hand in the right spot you just bring it back in front make sure you don't grab it up close to the magazine have your thumb up like this it's gonna be a big always so that's one of the downsides of a reciprocating charge handle so also you have a lot shorter handguard so you're gonna have to use it a lot smarter than you would the full size a ours so if you don't know you're gonna grab it upright or you grab me long as you can there again that elbow you want to probably work that elbow in the best you can you get a lot of control from itself to having trouble responding or getting your responsive muzzle in between shots don't hesitate with your left arm to play with your elbow position that's probably where most of the problem is gonna be we getting ready to head out to the range so what I did I came back and I changed out my upper on my AR on my M&P 15 you notice right right away it's a different hand guard it says g10 this is made by Alexander arms it's a 14-inch g10 material has an adjustable gas block underneath here it also has a chrome-lined barrel the reason I swapped out uppers this is my play upper when I go on train I get it hot I'll kind of use it I don't want to really ruin my match go and so these going to shoot just about inaccurate I saved my really good shooting gun for matches so I'm going I'm gonna go out and do some rattle battle so I've got my training upper back board here I've got the two vortex optics on the other one by six and also the Razer red dot it's set up exactly the way my other one is and this is the one I train with a lot so that's the upper we're gonna be shooting here in just a moment and the ammunition we're going to shoot his Hornady makes a fifty five grain Full Metal Jacket training ammunition so which basically it's a Hornady 55 grain ball round loaded on top of a steel case Burton prime disposable casing so and one thing I do have to say about the Hornady 55 grain Full Metal Jacket bullet out of all the 55 grain fmjs I've ever shot the hornet iran is the most consistently accurate if this round a lot of guys even shooting in competition up to two or three on the yard so even though it is their basic ammunition that they sell it's also a very good ammunition so you're really lacking nothing here if you don't reload this is what you really wanted to be shooting the 55 grain owner detraining gamba so I got my offer their rifle ready to fly I got my owning the ammunition we're gonna head out the drain do some rapid fire okay guys you made it out to the range got my trusty M&P rifle with my practice up are on the top here I've got an mg MC zone target down there what that means to me is it's a hardened rifle target I'm 50 yards away so that's relatively safe I've shot him at this distance before with ball ammo it's good deal MGM makes them a really great target so anyway getting right into some shooting positions I see a lot of guys on the range they're trying to shoot off in like this the distance now with this what this stance is really made to do is when you do a room entering you've got guys ooming around you elbows are tucked in you're just trying to get yourself out of the way this is a field shooting position I want to use as much of me to get on the target and make it an easy performance as possible so I'm gonna stand there my head erect as possible my use my left arm is to my advantage and we'll play with that elbow position to get it to where that firearm repeats the target so and what that means to the shooter is repeat the target is every time I pull that trigger it should be exactly where it was before I pulled the trigger after the shot if I got a hunt and peck and find that site by technique is way off base so I know how this platform is set up on mobile stance so I'm just gonna do a little offhand for you slow fire give you an idea how easy it is to keep it on target if you have the right stance so another thing that's critical guys with a ARS would compensate us if a compensator was effective it's gonna be brutal loud every time you every time you see me on a match or you see me practicing or you see me on a range and there's an a or present or any high-velocity rifle Ron um I have at least at least three at least two three at least two layers of hearing protection okay guys if I had three years I plug the third one too but I'm gonna have earplugs in that on the top I want to have the best quality muff I can have what I'm trying to do is reduce this vibration and also the sound impact of course coming to your face coming through the side of your face I'll just this is about the best I can do right here to hearing protections I got the AR so I'm just going to go ahead and start off take the on point in the same direction drop the boat finger out a trigger guard on the timer I'm just going to come up and shoot the target six times so just watch the end of the muzzle see what it looks like you can see I'm not sided with his MO but you see how easy it returned I'm aiming in the center so it's hitting to the left I'm actually signing in for a sixty grain bullet as it says on the cap here so but give you an idea that was pretty that was pretty easy to keep it on target that was a 36 to 37 a 35 so we shot about 3,500 splits really no worked at all just using my left hand use it to my advantage the whole idea about rapid fire and not how fast you can shoot it but how fast you can accurately shoot so it gives you a lot of feedback it's a great way to calibrate who you are to the platform that you have in your hands at that time be it a shotgun rifle pistol doesn't matter so the whole idea behind rapid-fire is it calibrates you to the platform so that was about 35 splits see if we can go a little bit faster that was a little bit faster still on target it's over 25 22 20 so even at 20 splits 2,100 splits right technique you're right in the center of the target so don't have to take guys to use the left hand to your advantage and try something new one thing you want to remember guys when you have your shooting position or your stance the way you want you want to use that stance all you want to do is pivot on your knees you don't want to push the end of your muzzle from target to target you want to pivot your knees so I've got a good shooting position here and I like it so I'm just going to fit on my knees I've got to play the rack down range at 50 yards or so go ahead and engage it and see what it looks like here we go a little wild on one but I still got him give you an idea guys you've got a good position you got a good stance pivot on your knees just keep the barrel parallel to the horizon and you'll have a good performance okay that was a very brief intro to practical rifle shooting I could spin well it took me 30 years to understand where I'm at right now so I'll give you some idea on a YouTube experience you're not gonna learn it all in one in one presentation so but what I do have available for you is this training video Michell act practical rifle what this has is over two hours of training videos it will entail everything from how to set your gun up different ammunition how to set your scope your stock multiple target engagement shooting on the move moving targets reactionary targets the whole gamut of the experience of practical rifle is pretty much in this one package this is 30 years worth of work and it's available at a reasonable price so if you're interested in this package you can get it from Mitchell ENCOM also the rifle compensator that you see me using and also in the video is available at Mitchell ENCOM hey guys I hope you enjoyed the short presentation that we had for you today it was kind of fast paced but we could we covered some really major points of interest so also stay tuned guys we got an FN p90 coming up we've got a desert eagle 50 caliber chrome plated whiskey edge veg-o-matic and I ought to be some fun stuff there I'm kind of excited about getting at my hands and making it shoot fast so but anyway if you like what you saw out like invite you to subscribe to Mitchell comm also like me on Facebook you'll find a link on the description box below and don't hesitate to send us some comments we appreciate y'all and yeah we appreciate you input

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Length: 20min 13sec (1213 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 04 2013

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[u/ravendon]

Good tips.