CARBINE FUNDAMENTALS: RECOIL MANAGEMENT
What's going on, everyone? Travis Kennedy here, owner of Kennedy Defensive Shooting. Today I'm going to talk about carbine fundamentals. Specifically recoil management. Let's do this.
Two points of performance I want to discuss in this blog post and those are: Grip and shouldering the rifle. I teach a specific way to grip the rifle, specifically how to place your fingers along the finger grooves that are designed on the grip. Yeah, you could use those and align your fingers along those grooves, but I align my ring finger above the first groove on the rifle grip. My finger is at the top of the grip knob on the grip of my rifle. This gives me a high seat up on this beaver tail on my rifle grip. Now that I have a nice strong grip on this thing. I got more reach with my trigger finger and have more reach with my thumb to manipulate the safety.
When I shoulder the rifle, there's a couple of things I see that people do wrong. They either ... It's too high or maybe it's just too low. You want the entire butt stock seated within the shoulder. That gives you strength behind that rifle, especially when we start rapid firing. If you're working with body armor kit, it's more of a pain, but it can be done. The buttstock needs to get seated directly into that shoulder pocket and my left pulling that rifle back into my shoulder. I utilize the Magpul finger grip. I have a relaxed grip with my right hand to pull the trigger. When I go to present and I go to fire, after I fire, my left hand is pulling my muzzle back on target that helps with my recoil, get my sites aligned back on target to re-engage.
Another point of performance is stance. Stance a little more exaggerated than when I'm just shooting my pistol. I lean forward with more of an aggressive posture. My left leg is in front a little bit more when I shoot my rifle, because I want to be in more of an aggressive stance, and really lean into this thing.
Remember, we don't want the butt stock high and we don’t want it low. Remember to keep the firing arm elbow down when we shoot. We don't want this elbow flared out. And when I go to bring my rifle up to my eyes to acquire my sights, I bring the gun up and I just dip my head slightly to get that cheek weld to acquire my sights. That's my touch point. Touch point is my cheek. As the rifle comes up, I drop my head, gun is put on fire, finger goes on trigger, I acquire my sights, and I engage. Same thing with high ready, punch out, touch points is my cheek, jam the rifle back into my shoulder then engage.
Try those points of performance out and make sure that butt stock's right in that shoulder. If you guys like this post, please share and comment below. If there is a certain topic you would like me to talk about put it below.
Let's train hard.
Teams.
-TK