I really like listening to this guy speak. He is clear, concise and to the point.

I'm a Royal Malaysian Police, and I love your videos regarding firearms sir ..God bless 👍

Dont know why there are thumbs down for a veteran who was trained by our government , especially Navy Seal............. Thanks Chris. you have my thumb up.......

The barrel "inline" with your forearm was great, when everyone used the weaver stance. Not so good now, using the isometric triangle stance(isosceles). Your gun natural wants to point to the left this way. I move my strong hand slightly around the gun, to put it in a better spot for the triangle. This also helps you get more of your support hand on the grip, in a HIGHER, MORE FORWARD position. Which is perfect for recoil management. I also pull back on the front of the trigger guard, with the pointing finger, of my support hand. I used to miss left, until I changed to this grip. Try it!!!

Excellent lesson. When my father taught me to shoot a handgun, he addressed most of these issues. I worked on my grip strength, and a consistent grip. When I paid attention to these key points, my shooting was consistent. By the time I was in my teens, I was able to shoot comfortably with one hand, and either hand. Keeping that gun steady is key, and a trigger pull that doesn't move the gun either. I am a can killer!!

When you mentioned the empty space between the support hand and the grip if the support hand wasn't placed correctly, I knew that was one of the biggest detractors to my grip. Thank you for this video, it really helped!

The best explanation on grip that I've ever heard.

So glad I found this video I could not for the life of me figure out why my shots kept pulling to the side! I watched this video and started practicing getting myself into that perfect grip. The next time I was out at the range my buddy said it was like watching a completely different shooter. I gave him the name of your channel and he should be checking it out soon! Thank you I appreciate the help!

I've been involved in training sessions (Police Academy and US Army) where several different methods were shown on how to hold and fire a pistol, however, this video is BY FAR THE BEST training I have ever experienced. I now have a much better understanding of why I should hold the pistol this way and what differences it makes to hold it any other way. Thank you for the information and thank you for an excellent video.

I have watched 5 or 6 videos on gripping the gun, and this one makes the most sense.

Thank you for the tip! One pointer in your video about support thumb in relation to trigger finger made the clarification that no other videos did. For the first time using your grip I can pull double action trigger with absolute steady hand, barrel, and sight!

Ran across this video and was pleased to see all of your successes and the TREMENDOUS positive impact that you have had on so many. Has been many years since you first arrived at BMC Panama City. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!

Really good instructions, thank you sir. Showed me exactly how my grip has been wrong and why I’m constantly shooting low left. I will definitely apply the lessons learned here and get it right. Appreciate it!!!👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

I just got my pistol license. I’m so glad I came across your page!! great explanation on how to grip gun!! Can’t wait to watch all your other videos! Thank you for making these videos!!

This was the best block of instruction I heard on pistol grip. I have been taught by academy instructors but for some reason this was more detail and thorough. Thank you!

You're not only a hero to many, you're an EXCELLENT instructor! Thank you for your service, Chris!

@Chris Sajnog - Thank you for your help. I've seen many many many videos on shooting/gripping pistols and I can say with full confidence that your videos are by far the best. I tried many ways shown on many gun channels to shoot better but yours was the key. Your method helped me understand the fundamentals of good shooting with any pistol of any size and caliber. Thank you for your time and knowledge and your service to the U.S. military.

Was always told trigger control. But until I worked on grip that’s when I became a consistently better pistol shooter. Thanks for the great info.

I know a Ranger and a few Seals...every single one has shown me this exact same form. Safe to say it's the best way to go. Great video!

I’ve been watching way too many grip videos and I’m getting all sorts of contradictory advice but intuitively, this grip seems to make the most sense and I will be trying it the next time I hit the range

Great video. Alot of this hit home for me. I'm always shooting low and left. Definitely gonna work on my grip. Really enjoyed the video and gonna remember what you said next time I go to the range!

Wow, I'm so glad I found this video. I just bought my first hand gun and want to learn correct grip and the reasons why it is correct. Thanks!

CHRIS: In 2016 I returned to airgunning. I started researching techniques to shoot both my pistols and rifles more accurately. I realized that videos of real steel/powder burning 'experts' would have techniques that I could transfer to my own field. I have to say that this is the most informative (and correct) of all the videos I've watched. Including those made by competition shooters. Not only did you explain (in easily understandable words and examples) the proper way to grip, but also what happens when you don't grip properly. I was also pleased to see that you were 'shooting' with both eyes open. I learned, and practices that, even before I had my cataract operation. And now that I've had it, and continue that method, my accuracy has improved to what it was (or better) when I received my awards in the Canadian Cadet Corp as a youth. I look forward to more of your videos (and downloading & sharing them). This one will be shared with the many air pistol groups I am with on FB from around the world. DOC

Working on actual grip strength is a great piece of bonus advice. Another piece of “bonus” advice I would like to add is for the gun itself. Your trigger pull weight should be equal to the weight of the gun itself. When you have a high trigger weight, it ensures that more movement is introduced into the gun during firing, thus bringing it out of the target line. With polymer frames, usually much more so than with all-steel pistols. Here's an example: with a CZ 75 Shadow 2, the factory trigger weight in single-action mode is roughly equal to the pistol's total weight - the ratio is almost 1:1. With a polymer pistol, such as a Glock G17 with a total weight of about 700 grams and a trigger weight of about 2.1 kg, the ratio tips toward an unfavorable 3:1 factor. This is why grip is so important and further adds to Mr. Sajnog explanation of competitive shooters with heavy guns and light triggers not needing as tight of a grip. Beginners usually do better at targets with all steel guns for this reason.

Your advice is helping me tremendously! I will do the grip exercises and when I finally make it to go shooting, keeping in mind your sage advice.

Chris now's what he is talking about I bought his book I was in the army since I have been using Chris's info I have improved a 110 percent it has got rid of a lot of my bad technics I was doing listen to him and practice practice practice ty chris for helping me and my family become a better shooter

It is quite pleasant when a speaker is emanating experience and time--tried advice. No need for flashy lights, just pure knowledge. Bravo, Seal. USMC,US Army

Chris thanks for your service to our country! Thanks too for the videos. Shooting pistols is a new interest of mine, and I enjoy your work.

You can definitely train me any day on handguns! Your such a dynamic and prolific teacher. I'm so blessed to have found you. I will be transferring to a Glock from my Revolver in May. You explain things in simple terms and you have so much patience. Thank you 😊 and God bless!

Chris, I really appreciate how you make so much sense with you instructions, easy to understand and not condescending. I'm going to teach my 16 Y.O. daughter about guns, safety and shooting. This video will go a long way in doing that successfully. Thank you

Love it, you nail it on this that others well-intended tend to confuse new shooters about, I am sharing this with my friends. The gun becomes part of you just as the arrow becomes part of our pointing finger for instinctive (no sights or aiming methods) archery, only we are using the sights on the handgun if possible. If no time for sights, this you teach helps tremendously to still have everything work well for point shooting.

Got some range time in front of me, after enough dry fire practice, I can shoot MOA with just about any rifle, not so much with a pistol. This video helped!! Thanks!!

You are awesome!! I learn from understanding and your explanation of the mechanics and physics of why goes on makes so much sense to me that when I put it into practice it’s almost second nature!! Keep these videos coming !! I’ll be supporting you for sure!!

The thing is . This makes perfect sense I’ve been shooting the same style weapon for over 25 years ( Sig Sauer P22x platform)) And this video gave me several areas to improve on Thank you And thank you for your service to our nation

Wow thank you for this video. My instructor taught me well I guess. I watched a few videos and they all said "place your finger here on the trigger" "that part of the knuckle should be there" etc then I watch your videos and that's exactly what my instructor from last year taught me. Thank you!

Thanks, Chris. I have watched a lot of "how to grip pistols" videos and each time the same general rules are gone over, but each person says something new that someone else hasn't. In this one, it was the loosening of your lower fingers to check your grip, trigger finger and left thumb alignment, and not placing your trigger finger until you have your proper grip set up. I was taught differently about where my trigger finger should fall.

Phenominal, Thank you for this wonderful instruction...My groups changed dramatically after studying this video and tweaking my mistakes, amazing disciplines.

Well explained and not so exhaustive as to be frustrating. This is informative that is immediately actionable. Thank you Chris.

Everything he is saying is spot on I’ve been shooting for over twenty years after doing all his videos shooting ten fold better.thank Chris God Bless Be Safe

Awesome Chris! I’m taking my Son to my indoor range today and having you as his first perfect practice grip instructor makes my exact same grip instructing a breeze. Thanks as always for your Service Sir! 🙌🏼❤️🇺🇸❤️🙌🏼

I will definitely subscribe. The technique you show to eliminate shake is what i taught myself to train out my tremors. You are a smart guy with excellent means of knowledge conveyance.

Thanks you for these videos I am a first time gun owner and safety is my first concern. You instill confidence in me with your instruction and calm manner. Also ..Thanks you for your service as well Subscribed, liked and looking forward to more !

Always great to review the basics to keep everything square and straight - Thanks, Chris ~

This was the second time I watched the video and it really came together for me this time. I was doing a couple of things wrong, and I think you've sorted me out. Just small things, but already my grip feels right, where before I was uncomfortable. This seems to have worked practicing at home. We'll see how I do at the range. I'm just a novice, so every bit helps right now. There's so much to learn, and it's going to take patience. I'll check back in in a few days, hopefully with a better target group. Thank you.

Excellent points Chris. A good check on the placement of your support hand, especially thumb placement, is natural sight alignment. A sidearm should be a natural extension of your body and once you can master grip placement the sights become irrelevant especially in close combat. The ability to put a bullet in a vital area that will neutralize the attacker should be as natural as walking. This also requires a sidearm that fits the shooter instead of the shooter adjusting to the sidearm. Great video!

Absolutely THE BEST grip video out there. Can't wait to try this technique this weekend at the range.

You litterly fix my shot from 40 yards with just the fact of my thumb placement n having my grip canted! Best explanation of everything on this channel for trying to finess my shots thank you

Alot of people start shooting guns without real training from an expert. They learn from a friend who learned from a friend.. Etc... I'm a personal trainer, and the way you explained it was very common sense, as I do the same showing how to do exercises properly... Very good video

Excellent instruction Chris, I know one helluva lot of Law Enforcement Agencies that would benefit from just this one video.

Thank you so much. Can’t wait to hit the range and make those adjustments. Stay blessed my dude.

This video made an immediate improvement in accuracy, Thank You.

Excellent video!!!! Everyone who's about to purchase a sidearm should watch this. Gun shops won't take the time to explain some of this so non military personnel have no idea what they may be doing wrong and just get frustrated at the range and probably won't be confident with the sidearm.

Thank you for your video. I've not shot a pistol before, thank you for explaining the reason why you do what you do.

Simple yet very informative. Exactly what I needed. Now I know what I should be doing. Thank you!

I learned exactly what I have been doing wrong for a long time. Holding my gun the way you show takes a little practice but absolutely see a nice difference in performance. Thank you for sharing this one invaluable tip.

I've been wanting to get my own hand gun for self defense for a while now and just haven't gotten around to it. But a few days ago at a busy park we frequently go to someone took a picture of my 2 year old and ran off quickly while I was there alone and 7 months pregnant. This isn't the first time something like this has happened to me in my life and I'm not waiting anymore. Watching your videos help me feel more informed before I go out and practice shooting with my family. Thank you

Chris, Really love the way you explain. Keep up good work

Thank you so much for this video. Practicing at home, I can already see what I've been doing wrong at the range. Subscribed and looking forward to checking out the rest of your content.

Spot on information Mr. Sajnog. Every one ought to have the opportunity to see your series and learn.

I am new to this and some suggestions I heard contradict this but what you makes perfect sense and I see results immediately. Hands down best video I seen so far on grip. I can't thank you enough.

Excellent video. Chris, thanks for the simple to understand instructions, and thank you for your service 🇺🇸

Thank you! I’ve been using full-size pistols for years, now training with compacts. It’s hard for me to get the sites lined up. After watching this, it became simple.And THANK YOU For saying finger position on trigger doesn’t matter. I’ve been arguing with people for years on this. God bless and thank you for your service sir!

This video helped me a lot using my Glock 17 Gen4. My groupings were always Down-Left. Ppl told me all kinds of stuff, especially the trigger-finger positioning, trying the different backstraps and so on. But none of them how to use my support hand properly! Now i can control recoil way much better, and my groupings went from Down-Left, to Left-Center. Still a long way to the center, but now i´m motivated to achieve that! Thank you, sir!

Thanks Chris: I was using a .32 Ibar (old). Recently bought a 9mm SCCY. What a difference first time in range. I'm hoping your grip teachings will help me today. Thanks again.

great content as always

Good video Chris! Thank you for your service to our country!!

Sir, thank you for your service first and foremost. But thank you for a great video. This is my first time running across your page, and I must say, I will be following, absorbing information you teach, and utilizing said information for my shooting skills. As a former GOLF instructor, Grip is one of the key components to a solid swing, so I can 100% appreciate how this will becoming an accurate/effective marksman. I look forward to learning more from you sir. God Bless, and God Bless America

This gave me more confidence to handle firearms. Thank you for the tips and for your service to America.

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Thanks Brother In Arms. The Front Sight Video Was Also Amazing. It Really Works. I'm 60 and it changed my whole way of shooting. Wish I was 18 again. Lol.

Your grip that you show increased my pistol league scores by almost 20 points on average. Incredible! Thanks!

thanks Chris, for me the push pull never really worked cause trying to concentrate on 60, 40, or 70 30 percent took was too much to think about when i was shooting, taking your advice as using my hands as a vice, has really helped. was at the range this morning after work, and using your technique only twice, my shooting has improved, hitting 25 yard targets 3 out of 5, definitly need more practice but more fun shooting. And finding the right gun to grip i figured out years ago, double stack pistols are too big for my hands, i shoot the Springfield EMP and Springfield RO elite with G10 grips witch are a slimmer ..... thanks

I last shot a pistol in Vietnam. I took up pistol shooting several years ago and didn’t get half the learning that I got from from you. Thanks for your teaching and service.

Excellent explanation 👌

By far the best explanation yet!!! Just evening out the thumb and finger makes a huge difference!!! Also thank you for your service!!!!

This makes complete and total sense. Thanks for posting, Chris.

HI....thanks for this video. I haven't used a pistol in years but about to buy one for self defense. I forgot proper grip technique but this video explains it clearly and will watch again & practice once I purchase my pistol.

Chris is spot on!!! A lot of this we taught on Paris Island but he explains it a lot better!!!

Great video and explanation "in layman terms" to a relatively new shooter in PA. I do struggle with the grip, but I am drawing from a holster, so this one will have me looking at things differently next time I go to the range. Can't wait to try these techniques out!

Thank you so much...I've figured out a lot of my grouping issues simply by working on my grip...EXCELLENT advice.

Excellent training! Now I understand why I'm always slightly off to the left all the time-now it all makes sense. Will definitely start practiciing these tips at home and keep them in mind when I get to the range. Thanks for the info.

My wife is getting into shooting so I had her watch this video first. We went to the range and her shooting and understanding increased immensely. We both shot better. Excellent video.... Basics! Basics! Basics! Thank you Chris

SIR, IT'S AN HONOR LEARNING YOUR MILITARY WAYS SO I CAN IMPROVE MY SHOOTING SKILLS. AND CONGRATS ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, THE GREATEST DECISION A MAN CAN TAKE. WE WANT TO BE WITH OUR FAMILIES AND SPEND EVERY MOMENT WITH THEM. GODSPEED.

This has been about the best video I've watched ! I'm a little guy 5'6 140lbs and have kid sized hands, so it's been hard to find a good grip even on a 9mm. So many guns I'd love to shoot but can't because I can't reach the trigger. The part about the grip tilting the direction of the gun really helped me realize why I'm feeling the recoil on a small gun like my sccy cpx2. Lining up my index fingers and being able to squeeze without it changing the direction of my gun will really help in the range. I have such a good eye on lining up my sights but my lack of good grip ruins it. And not having my arm lined up with the frame ruins it too. So glad I watched this video! I'm only 26 and just barley got my gun rights back 7 years after being charged with 2 felonies. I have had no professional training. Other than practice in a in door range. This will help me practice good habits thank you! Any tips on smaller grip guns that are easy grip for someone with small hands? This sccy cpx2 grip is way too wide. Makes squeezing the trigger with a good grip almost impossible haha. I'm thinking of getting a few different types of 22 and 380 pistols try shooting them and see which fits me better.

Very informative video, thankyou. An honor to get instruction & tips from someone in the Special Forces community. Thank you for your dedication & service.

Awesome job Chris! Thx!

Great lesson and would also appreciate some tips on gripping revolvers - some of us old timers still shoot "wheel guns" too !

I love in your book how you describe it as milking the trigger. Resonated with me and my pistol shooting improved.

By far the best tips I've ever seen in youtube for gun control. Great job on the video sir.

Chris this is awesome instruction! I have been shooting a long time and still I've learned a lot from you. Thanks for posting, and Chris Thank You for your service! God Bless America!

Chris, thank you so much for your video on proper pistol grip. After watching your video I practiced at home,dry firing, and then went to the range. I couldn't believe it! The guy next to me was like,"Dude! Your grouping is awesome!" I told him, "I know! I watched Chris Sajnog on KZfaq! " You have changed the way I shoot forever! Thank you!

This is by far the best instruction for proper gripping technique. Cheers!

Chris I bought and have read your book and practice the grip and stance 15 minutes per day, recently I was facing one of our large mirrors and noticed that the gun tilts alittle to left. Probably from a severally broken wrist when I was younger, seeing in the mirror has allowed me to adjust. Great videos as well.

Thank you! I'm gonna be a first time gun owner soon and I'm trying to get as much information as possible before.

This is very informative... Thanks!

That was a wealth of information. I appreciate how you went into such detail to explain the way.

This was a fantastic instructional video. Keep up the good work. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and uploading it for others to learn.

You are good, thanks for you’r video!

I've also seen great shooters use the Weaver stance and lock the shooting hands thumb under the weak hand thumb for a extremely ridged grip, steady as a rock but not ideal for rapid shooting as the gun often does not recoil straight back.

You solved my issue! First let me say I am retired LEO with 20 years service, so I am not new to firearms. When I was employed we had to qualify every 3 months. Now I only have to qualify once a year under the Law Enforcement Safety Act for retired LEOs. I never had issues. In the last year or so, I began noticing I was shooting low left of center mass. Perhaps it has to do with the small concealable handgun I now use. After, watching your video re-educating myself, I realized it was a trigger-finger placement issue. I went to the range today. You hit the nail on the head! I readjusted my trigger-finger and there it was...I was hitting center mass, again! Thanks for the great information!

5:15 helped my transition from R handed to left handed. Holy SMOKES that helps so much. Thank you!!