 Hey guys Dylan Schumacher sitting on the fence and before we get rolling with this video I just want to real quick cover the four firearms safety rules beforehand. I just feel compelled to do that because this is an intro video and in an intro video it's for people who are of course new to guns and so you may or may not know the four firearms safety rules. This deserves its own video which I will do at some point but for right now just so we're on the same page I want to give the four firearms safety rules. The first firearm safety rule is treat all guns as if they are loaded or all guns are always loaded which means we're never going to do anything with a unloaded gun that we wouldn't do with a loaded gun so the word should never never come out of your mouth it's okay Dylan it's not loaded you shouldn't say that okay that means we're not going to point the gun at ourselves we're going to point at someone else we're just going to treat that gun like it's loaded all the time if we all just did that no firearms accidents would ever happen the next three rules are derivations or an explanation of I guess the first firearm safety rule so first firearm safety rule treat all guns as if they're loaded or all guns are always loaded the second firearms safety rule is never point your gun at anything you're not willing to destroy which means I'm not going to point the gun at you I'm not going to point it myself I'm not going to point the gun at anything that I am not willing to destroy I always picture that there is a laser coming out of the end of that muzzle and I don't want to laser anything that I'm not willing to destroy so I want to be very careful where I point this muzzle that's particularly important on hand guns because it's such a short muzzle and the slightest turn of your wrist can sweep large swaths of area with that pistol I want to be very careful where we point that the third rule is keep your finger straight and off the trigger this is where your finger goes on all guns pistol rifle shotgun doesn't matter this is where it goes it does not go here all right we don't rest our finger there we rest our finger here outside of the trigger guard we want to keep our fingers straight and off the trigger until we ready to fire the fourth rule is be sure of your target it's foreground and its background so if you pull your gun out to save your life you want to know what's between you and the bad guy and what's beyond the bad guy so it's important to know where else could your bullet go in the event that it doesn't go where you want it to so those are the four firearms safety rules that's very quick like I said that deserves its own video which we will do at some point however that is your intro so as you watch these videos about firearms and handling firearms I want you to keep those four rules in mind all the time and we're never going to break those thanks a lot enjoy the video hey guys Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and this is going to be part two of you just bought an AR-15 and now what so the first part was going through the mechanics of the actual weapon and how this thing actually functions and now it's going to be how to hold it how to shoot it how to practice with it this is basically just an introductory dry fire session right now coronavirus is going on so we're all trapped at home anyway and so a lot of you just maybe bought one of these and it's like well what do I do now you can't necessarily go to the range and shoot it right now but what you can do is do some dry fire to ensure that you are ready to go to the range and shoot it and so we're just going to do some simple dry fire exercises we're going to talk about how hold this how to shoot it some simple dry fire to get you ready so that when you do go to the range you're going to be miles ahead of where you would have been otherwise okay so first thing we're going to do when we dry fires of course we're going to make sure that that rifle is unloaded because otherwise that can be really bad so I like to pull the charging handle back lock it to the rear if you haven't seen part one you don't know how to do that go ahead and watch that first it is clear I don't know if you're going to be able to see it but I can see it it's clear so after we know it's clear we're because we're going to be pulling the trigger here want to make sure that the weapon is unloaded I suggest you do this in a basement where you can point the rifle in a safe direction now we're going to work from four different positions to bring the weapon up to fire so first let's talk about how we're going to hold the weapon okay for most of us are right handed right that's going to be pretty simple you're right if you're left handed just reverse what I say okay you're going to get the pistol grip that's pretty simple go ahead and size the stock so that when you fold your arm the stock goes all the way to your bicep okay this would be too short for me that would be too long for me I kind of got to size it to where it fits my bicep okay that's the best way to size that you can adjust it assuming you're shooting without plates or armor or anything like that so from there as we're going to grip with our right hand okay left hand I'm going to tell you to grip it where it's comfortable some of you longer-limbed fellows will be able to grip it more towards the front some of us shorter than people will grip it more in avoid gripping at the magwell if you can that just leaves too much weight out here and it gets harder to control so kind of where it's comfortable for me I put this little nice grip here thing grippy thing here not because I'm going to grip that actually but that's a marker for me for where my hand goes so that's that's why I have that there and that's why most of us run those on a rifle nobody grabs this like this that that's weird doesn't give me enough control the rifle we'll grab the actual four into the gun but we run these here so that it marks where our hand goes okay stance stance is very important so I will try to roll in some pictures of this here but basically what we want to do is we want to stand with our if I'm right-handed with my left foot forward I'd say by about a half a step to a full step forward and what I'm going to do is I'm going to load meaning put most of my weight on that front foot so I'm going to be leaning slightly forward with most my weight on my front foot we're going to do that to transfer the recoil through the ground okay and that's one of the best ways in order to do that when you stand make sure your hips are pointing towards the target towards what you're actually trying to shoot wherever our hips point is naturally it can be our natural point of aim you can shoot across your body you can do that however it's not assisting you the best and it's not aligning with your body's natural point of aim so pay attention to where your hips are pointing because that's where your natural point of aim is going to be furthermore if you do get into this morning you do start wearing plates and armor and kit and all that kind of stuff you want your plates up front so that if you get shot you take it into plates not through the side or something like that okay so we got our stance squared away we got where we're going to grip the gun squared away the last thing to do is shoulder the rifle actually we get into a good stance we grip the gun where it's comfortable or what I want to do is we're going to want to shoulder the rifle so when we shoulder the rifle we're going to bring it up to right here now I want you to have that stock buried not buried like all the way down in here and not so high up that it's it's transferring over remember the recoil of the gun is going to recoil right along this line okay so we want to get that into our shoulder and it's high up so we can bring the gun to our head we don't want to drop our head to the gun but we don't want to bring it all the way up here right where the recoil is coming clean over my shoulder so we kind of compromise there I bring it up right here and I have to drop my head just slightly in order to get it into the gun but ideally my head would not move that much my head's going to stay here I see what I'm doing and I'm just going to bring the rifle up to my head okay so that's how we're going to hold the gun just go ahead and pause this get used to that give it a feel okay but really like I said you're just going to shoulder the rifle in your shoulder and look down your sighting system whether that's irons or a red dot or whatever you got going on doesn't really matter okay okay so now that we've established our grip and our stance we're going to talk about how to float through some basic dry fire positions okay so there's gonna be four basic positions like I said the first one we're going to work with is called low carry or you know rifle down whatever you want to call it basically we're just going to make sure our rifle is pointed straight down okay just going to hold it here again make sure the rifle is pointed straight down we're going to start from straight down we're going to bring the rifle up to that mounting position like we talked about earlier we're going to disengage the safety and we're going to pull the trigger reset by pulling back on the charging handle and reset the safety put the rifle back down okay that's it we're just going to start down the rifle is going to come up disengage the safety pull the trigger now uh when you're pointing this at your basement wall I just want you to go ahead and pick a spot on the wall uh you pick an outlet you can pick a light switch whatever just pick something to put your dot on okay so do that just do it about five times start low come all the way up get your optic on target disengage the safety pull the trigger reset reset your safety rifle down so just so you know there's a thing called mechanical offset which means inside 25 yards with this weapon system what you're going to have is your optic or your iron sights sit about two inches above the barrel okay so there's about that much difference in there right so that means your bullet is going to strike about two inches below where you're looking at so if you want to practice practice on holding your dot about two inches above what you actually are aiming at in this scenario okay so again do that five times just from all the way from low carry all the way down to all the way up into on target disengage safety pull the trigger okay so after that we will do low ready so low ready is i want you to bring your rifle on target and then take it down just enough so you can see can turn your head you can look over your shoulder okay that's a little ready basically we're we still have the rifle up and it's ready to go however we can still see what's going on it's not all the way up in our vision and precluding us from seeing below it or anything else we need to be seen so that's a little ready so again we're just going to do that five times low ready disengage safety pull the trigger reset the charging handle reset the trigger reset the safety come back down do that five times okay now we're going to do high ready so at high ready we're going to hold the rifle up i'm looking just over the muzzle at what it is i want to be looking at what i don't want to see in this case my target i mean me and a light switch on the wall over here so i'm looking just over the muzzle at my light switch when you're ready you're going to drive the gun forward pull the gun back into that position we talked about earlier align my optic disengage my safety pull my trigger reset come back to high ready simple enough do that five times okay now we're going to do high carry or up whatever you really want to call it basically we're just going to point the rifle up right now if you are in the basement make sure there's no one above you okay this is good safety practice we don't want to point our rifle at anything we're not willing to destroy however the really thing i like about pointing my rifle straight up is i can easily move around people like if i had to move around a friend or a buddy or a partner i can easily do that with my having my rifle up so it's a very good carry position to utilize and and want to get used to and want to get used to transitioning to being on target from from having a rifle up so same thing from here we're going to flow right through that high ready position see that see how that works and then we're going to put the rifle in our shoulder get on target disengage the safety pull the trigger reset come back up pretty simple do that five times flow through that high ready shoulder the rifle disengage the safety pull the trigger one of the things i want you to be working on while you do this is calling your shots when you're pulling that trigger i want you to make sure where was that red dot or where was that front sight the moment i pulled the trigger because that's where my bullet is going remember your mechanical offset however i want you to call your shot you need to learn to read your sights so that you know where your bullets are going rather than looking at your paper it's going to make you a much better shooter five times from high carry or up now there are more complicated dry fire things you can do by complicated i really just mean we can work on the functions we can work on loading the rifle we can work on doing tachry loads with the rifle there's all kinds of fun things we can do with the rifle and dry fire however assuming you're new and assuming you just got this thing and you just want to know how to handle it and work it start here and then we can always progress on to those other things later down the line do break deeds and enjoy