{"id":1907,"date":"2009-12-07T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2017-08-10T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:51:08","slug":"the-four-s-shooting-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/the-four-s-shooting-method\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Four S” Shooting Method"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an effort to categorize the skills that make a good shooter I have come up with four areas.\u00a0 They all start with the letter \u201cS\u201d hence the \u201cfour S shooting method.\u201d<\/p>\n

I Safety<\/h2>\n

Safety should be the primary concern of any shooter, be they a dedicated bench-rest person, skeet shooter, plinker, action shooter or training for combat.\u00a0 Obedience to Colonel Cooper\u2019s four rules is imperative.\u00a0 Mastering safe weapons handling now will reduce the risk of injuries or death while training or competing. If you ever have to use a firearm for its intended purpose it will reduce the risk of friendly fire casualties.<\/p>\n

II Stance<\/h2>\n

Artillery pieces have a large heavy carriage or baseplate from which to shoot.\u00a0 The purpose of this is to make the barrel more stable during firing.\u00a0 With small arms you are the baseplate.\u00a0 The position of your body and the interface of you to the weapon (grip) are major components to how accurate you will be.\u00a0 In practical vs. target shooting there is the additional need to be flexible in stance.\u00a0 This is in order to be able to move quickly in and out of the position to move as well as to be able to better utilize cover.\u00a0 In most positions we shoot from the waste up.\u00a0 There are many arguments as to foot location and over all position.\u00a0 What is critical here is that you weight is evenly distributed between your feet (if standing) or other ground contact points (other positions.)\u00a0 Do not worry to much about textbook pictures of shooting positions.\u00a0 Odds are that if you are using a textbook position you are not using cover and concealment correctly.<\/p>\n

III Sight Picture<\/h2>\n

This is how you choose where you want your bullet to go.\u00a0 There are a variety of sights available, peep, v-notch, bead, red dot, telescopic etc.\u00a0 The point of all of these is to give you a reference of where your bullet should travel when you squeeze the trigger.\u00a0 You must master your particular sight type.\u00a0 I am a firm believer in starting off with iron sights.\u00a0 I feel that using iron sights is like stick shift cars.\u00a0 You might think you drive well with an automatic, but if you can\u2019t drive a stick you will never really understand driving.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean I’m not a believer in modern technology.<\/p>\n

IV Squeeze<\/h2>\n

This is the final step to the shooting act, the manipulation of the trigger to fire the gun.\u00a0 An effective trigger squeeze requires a familiarity with your firearm that can only come with extensive dry firing, as triggers vary greatly from platform to platform.\u00a0 But the universal rule in accurate shooting is that the trigger \u201cbreak\u201d when the hammer or striker falls should be a surprise.
\n[Via Every citizen A Soldier]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to categorize the skills that make a good shooter I have come up with four areas.\u00a0 They all start with the letter \u201cS\u201d hence the \u201cfour S shooting method.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17808,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/17808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}