Hi everybody. Welcome to the channel here again at C two Tactical in Scottsdale. If you're watching specifically in the Aspen Unlimited app, but also on the YouTube channel on active cell protection extra, I talked a little bit in one of my classes about kind of my check-in procedure for accurate, for extreme accuracy at distance shooting, and I want to teach it to you here today in kind of a little bit of a condensed format so that you can use it and practice it yourself. Dark Star Gear is one of the few companies that I trust to make holsters that I wear. They make high quality appendix carry holsters for a variety of firearms manufacturers. Check them out at the link in the description. I really think we do not know what the limits of human performance are with accuracy shooting at this point. When we're using pistol mounted optics.
When we are using training shooters like athletes, instead of training them like non-athletes, I think that we haven't remotely hit the potential that we have right now for defensive shooting. And when we talk about accuracy, I'm telling you the queen of this is Carrie den Hoffer, okay, you need to go talk with Carrie. You need to go take her class or sniper pistol class, the whole thing. And she's got this whole path. I've, for my own kind of source, condensed it down to five check-ins and those five check-ins. Let me kind of process quickly when I need to take an accuracy shot. If you are a Gen X kid or if you're a boomer, make sure you get to bed on time tonight, or even if you're an older millennial. What I want to talk about here is not being Riggs, but instead being murtaugh. So not rigs, murtaugh. So that's a whole lethal weapon joke. And so it's a dated pop culture reference. So if you're old enough to get that joke, make sure you schedule your colonoscopy soon. But remember when Riggs, he's going to go up there and shoot little happy face patterns, whereas Murtaugh is like, oh, okay.
And he gets that one shot exactly where he wants, right? So we're talking here about extreme accuracy, mtaw not rigs. And so five check-ins. The first thing I want to do is I check in with my mind. Alright? So here's the five path where we're going. I'm going to check in with my mind, check in with my body, check in with my hands, check in with my eyes, and check in with my trigger. So if I check in those five checks, then I will be ready to shoot. Let's talk about them in order. I first check in with my mind and to check in with my mind, I am checking into accuracy mode. I'm checking into, I am going to do all the things that are necessary to hold my muzzle very, very still until my trigger breaks and do everything. And I'm an accurate, consistent, efficient, and disciplined shooter.
That hitting the target is like me. That is what I do. And therefore I am going to do it in this case, and I'm going to focus on the processes that will get me that. And so I check in with my mind, okay, okay, mind, this is what we're going to do. We're going to do the accuracy piece here to get the hit that we need. Then I check in with my body, and so I start looking and feeling my body and going, what do I feel here? Where's my tension? What can I do in order to put myself in a place of engaged, relaxed? So I want to be in what I was taught in my martial arts journey as what we call a physiological state of engagement, that I have all the tension that I need and no tension that I don't need.
Alright? So then I'm simply getting in a good athletic stance. I am relaxing myself where I can. For me, that is usually, you see me do this all the time, I'll pull my shoulders back because that opens my chest wall out. Lets me breathe a little bit easier. Good. Now, in this particular case, I'll also check in is something hurt and is that going to affect me? Right now, my knees are a little sore. I'm running and doing stuff. I've dropped about 50 pounds, and so my knees are like, Hey buddy, how are you today? So I just recognize that for what it is. And also I have a muscle in my left side of my low back that's just a little sore, a little tired from my run today. Cool. Recognize all that. I don't think any of that's going to affect the way that I'm able to shoot today.
Cool. So I've checked in with my mind. I've checked in with my body. Next, I'm going to check in with my hands when I grab the gun. And what I mean by that is do I have the grip on the gun that I want? I think for extreme accuracy, shooting everybody I know when it's time for extreme accuracy, we do not grip the gun as hard as when we're trying to control recoil. Now wait a minute, John, is that teaching multiple grips? Yep. Yep, sure is. Now will I know the difference when some guy is three yards away here and I've got to grip that gun, I stole something from me and go and hit him five or six times, then make a transition over here and go, Ooh, I really need to hit that guy and moderate my grip pressures. Yeah, I think I can do that.
I don't think that that's too much cognitive load for people. So I'm going to moderate my grip pressures and make sure that I'm gripping the gun in order to keep it still. Then I'm going to check in with my eyes and see my sights and say, how much seeing do I need to do through this in order to be successful? I am an pistol mounted optic shooter, so I am also maintaining target focus, right? If you're an iron site shooter, you got to come back, especially when it's extreme accuracy time, hard front site focus, equal height, equal light. Make sure that you've got that kind of target to front site to target to front site focus and seeing those things. Now, I'm not talking about accommodation and different lengths and those things. I'm saying as an optic shooter, I don't have to worry about any of that stuff.
I just look at the target, superimpose the dot over the target and then keep looking at the target. But as I'm checking in with my eyes, I want to keep seeing, okay, I really want to continue to see. And then finally I'm checking in with my trigger. And when I check in with my trigger, I say, okay, wait a minute. I want to add pressure to the trigger wall and I don't want to pulse the trigger. I want to press the trigger. If I'm looking at the amount of pressure on the trigger over time, I don't want to pulse the trigger. I want to add pressure to the trigger until it drops at a pace that I can keep my sights on target. So I'm checking in, I want to keep seeing my sights and keep pressing my trigger. So I use to keep checking in with my eyes and checking in with my trigger finger.
I use my mouth and that reminds me, you'll hear me say, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing a lot of us at times, we will turn our eyes off or we'll go for a minute of inattentional blindness while we're finishing our trigger press. And then God only knows on extreme where that's going. Instead, I'm going to keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing. We do this when we play a game out here. Now we'll often do it on our ask targets on the two inch circles. We're at a little bit of a shorter range here. Okay? So we will just push this back a little bit. We are not going to have 25 yards out here, but I will tell you at our latest instructor cohort, we had students using this path hitting two inch circles, at least one out of three shots at 25 yards.
And if you think about it, that makes sense. That's roughly the inside of the 10 ring and the X ring on a B eight target and guys at 25 yards can hit X rings pretty regular. I've seen, I've seen as much as a hundred like six x out of people at times. So you can do that. I've shot 99, 6 x is the most that I've ever shot on a 25 yard ba. We're going to step in here to five yards and I'm just going to walk it back a couple times and just let you watch me practice it. Sound good?
All right, five yards. Five yards, should be an easy day for me. Might not be an easy day for you. If it's not an easy day for you, then move in further. Okay? So I'm not telling you you got to be to my standard or you may be way more than my standard. You may look at that and go five yards. John, you woos, what is going on? Cool. Then shoot it at 10. I'm just going to start here at five for most people. Okay? Alright, let's take a look. Here we go. So I'm just going to shoot the number six.here. And again, I'm going to check in with my mind. I am an accurate, consistent, efficient, and disciplined shooter. It's like me to make hits and I will make hits here. Okay, check in with my body. Body. Feels good. Let's get rid of all the unnecessary tension neck. Feels great. Okay, check in with my hands. I've got the amount of grip pressure that I need and my grip feels good on the gun. Check in with my eyes. There's my dot. And it's superimposed beautifully. I see everything that I need to see. Relax a little bit back to my body eyes now check in with my trigger. Keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing,
Keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep
Beautiful. Now you got a little bit of offset here so I don't need to do anymore because I made my hit. So we have a little bit of offset down. Why? Because we're at five yards. We got to recognize that we have a little bit of down offset. Cool. Let's step it back to seven. But I got my hit, so I don't need to go any further than that. I always give folks three opportunities, but if you get it, move on. Right? Alright, let's do the same.seven yards. I would say that for most people, if you're doing dot torture or something like that, seven yards is probably as far as you probably really need to do it. I mean, if you're going to go farther than that, you probably rung about as much out of it as you can until you start to try to play and have some fun with stuff. But let's see if we can hit a seven inch circle here or two inch circle at seven yards. Check in with my mind. I have every bit of skill that I need to hit this target at seven yards. Yep. I'd like me to succeed. Check in with my body. Feels good. Check in with my hands. Grip pressures. Feel nice. Check in with my sights. There it
Is. And centered. Nice. Check in with my trigger. Keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing.
Very good, Ken. Little bit left. You know what you're actually seeing here I think is that this gun is, I didn't bring my training gun today, so I'm shooting my carry gun and I'm shooting training ammo through my carry gun. So it's a little left is what it actually is. I'm going to grab some carry ammo and verify it's zero before I go home today. But there's seven yards. Let's go to 10. We're not doing a lot of time pressure here. I'm not trying to do that. I'm in extreme accuracy mode. And this one again, check five check-ins, check in with my mind, check in with my body, check in with my hands, check in with my eyes, check in with my trigger using my words. And we'll see what we do at 10 yards. Now I'm going to be real for most people. Like, okay, so if you're in the high information like meat eating, crime fighter, gun dude groups, shooting a two inch circle at 10 yards, it's doable.
Most of those folks should be able to do it. A lot of high-end ladies could do that well too. The vast majority of shooters, the millions and millions of firearms owners in America, shooting a two inch circle at 10 yards is like you're a wizard, Harry. It's Harry Potter, Hogwarts level stuff. But you can do it guys. I want you guys to be able to do it so that you're not looking at people on Instagram and going, oh, they're magic wizards. No they're not. They just learned the tricks to doing it. You can too. Okay, check in with my mind. I can hit a two inch circle at 10 yards about every bit of skill that I need to hit that. And I am going to do so because it's like me to succeed. Check in with my body. Feels good, man. Those knees are sore today though. But that's not going to affect the way that I shoot today. But I want to really relax my neck and stay up high. Okay, let's check in with our hands. Hands. Feel good. Hands feel. I have no problems with my hands whatsoever and I've got a good grip on this gun. Good. Check in with my eyes. Perfect. Love that.
Seeing everything I need to see. Relax. Eyes feel good. Check and trigger. There it is. Keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing
Made my hit. Doubt me. Let's go down and look Don, right there. 1, 2, 3. Alright, what do you think? You think we can do it from 15? I think we can. Let's go check it out. It's probably as far as we'll be able to do today, but let's take a try here. 15 yards. 15 yards on a two inch circle is not a joke for anybody, me included. Okay, so this is an interesting one, especially because I'm playing a little Kentucky windage because like I say, this guy, my dot right now is just a Scotia left. I think I can get it. Well, let's stop that. I know I can get it. I have all the skill that I need in order to make this hit. I know I can keep my muzzle still enough to do so. My mind is set. Body feels good. Let's check in with our
Hands. Yes.
So interesting. You know what I'm feeling here? There's a little bit I can feel the tiniest bit of just play in the back strap of this gun and I'm feeling that in my hands. So I'm really trying to check in and feel the gun. Not necessarily trying to kind of manhandle the gun, but just feel it. And I felt that right now. That's interesting. It probably won't affect me in a defensive context at all. Okay,
It's checking with my eyes. Yeah. Oh, and there it is. That looks great. Keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep pressing, keep
Pressing, keep pressing. I am the tiniest bit. I'm just the tiniest bit left. I am so close. I bet you that could be a hit. Alright. And I am straight up. I'm Kentucky winding just to scooch. So I'm going to Kentucky, windage a Scot Moore and get the hit for you. Okay? Check in with my mind. I have it. I know exactly what I did there and I know how that was. And I know exactly where the bullet's going to go. Okay, so now I've got that. I've got everything I need. Good. My body feels good and I was able to stay relaxed there. Good. My hands feel good on the gun. There's my eyes.
Here's my trigger. Keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep seeing. Keep pressing, keep seeing.
Now that one I healed the tiniest Scot. I think that one was a hit too. But let's, give me one more. Okay? Give me three shots. Give me three shots. Mr. You'll never see me. No. Ooh. Dated pop culture. Reference foho.
Alright, get it.
There it is. All right. Keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing. Nope. So I'm going to abandon that one. And the reason that I abandoned it is that my glasses got a little foggy and so I was having a hard time seeing. I checked in with my eyes and my eyes were having a little hard time with it. So I'm going to clear that this is extreme accuracy mode. Well, John, you won't have time to clear your glasses in a fight, in a gunfight. I won't be wearing glasses in a gunfight. So also start your own channel and tell me how to do it. I don't care. Do your thing. Alright, mind good? I've got it.
Body feels good, hands feel good. Highs look good. Trigger. Keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep seeing, keep pressing, keep seeing, keep pressing
Boy. Right in the same place. But that one caught the circle for sure. Let's go take a look. Yeah, that one caught the circle for for sure. Okay, so 1, 2, 2, 3. That last one caught the circle for sure. So I'm out of space here. Could we go back a little bit further? Yeah. Would it get a little bit challenging because of how I am winding this because of the difference in ammo? Yeah, just a little bit. Here's my point. Five point checkin, right? So that was 10, but each hand had five. So you get my point, right? Five point check in, check in with your mind, check in with your body, check in with your hands, check in with your eyes, check in your trigger. Do that continuously. And as you do that, I think your extreme accuracy will improve. Give it a try and let me know in the comments how it works for you.
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