Why does he grip all the way up there....

[RobertMW]

So many threads about this. I say that it seems to work for him!

[Gun_Smoke]

It doesn't even show his impacts, just because he can hold a modified m60 and pull the trigger doesn't make him a badass.

But my hate for CC aside holding far out is the most stable way to shoot from an unsupported position.

[mikenewgun87]

cuz its taticool...and probaly works...

[macman9]

Dont like The Guy. Dont care If it works. Hes just another no it all. Just like James yeager.

[bubbagump]

You know who else holds the rifle all silly?

This guy...

[ocabj]

It's a good way to mitigate recoil in the standing unsupported position.

[Calgunner739]

Dont like The Guy. Dont care If it works. Hes just another no it all. Just like James yeager.

Hahaahahaha okay keyboard warrior.

The op was wondering why he was holding the M60 a certain way, not your unfounded personal opinion on the mans' character, nor James Yeagers

[CK_32]

cuz its taticool...

Fixed it.


What a lot of people don't know is their guns are more hand crafted than some of our 1911s so they have 0 recoil and can pull of 90 rounds a second. It sells DVDs that's why they do half the stuff they do.

[Gun_Smoke]

Well no, holding your rifle out farther has proven advantages.

A basic understanding of physics makes it easy to argue why you should hold your rifle out farther as opposed to near the magwell.

[SOAR79]

"4:34 get some" lol

[CrippledPidgeon]

Holding the rifle far out on the handguard is neither something that Chris Costa pioneered, nor is it new. From what I understand, holding the rifle farther out on the handguard started as a competition technique, which worked its way over to the military. It doesn't necessarily help stability, because neither hand is going to be near to the center of gravity and you'll tire more quickly (keeping the center of gravity in front of your hands means that it's harder to transmit hand movement to the rifle). What it gives you is better control of recoil, as well as aiding your ability to move the rifle between targets quickly and precisely. Unload your rifle and try it in your home. Set up three targets about a yard apart, and stand several yards back. Now pretend you're doing an El Presidente Drill, and see which technique is easier to stop your rifle in the center of each target without overshooting, or slowing down way early.

Here are a couple videos featuring people who have a bit of trigger time, and use variants of the technique.

Jerry Miculek with an AR

Jerry with a FAL

Kyle Lamb's 1-5 Drill

Travis Haley's 1-5 Drill

[macman9]

Hahaahahaha okay keyboard warrior.

The op was wondering why he was holding the M60 a certain way, not your unfounded personal opinion on the mans' character, nor James Yeagers

Don't care.
I just think Its funny seeing people at The range shooting like that. Dressed in Camo dumping a mag from there ar. Just makes me laugh. Its even more funny when The range officer tells them to pack there crap Because there done for The day.

[voiceofreason]

It works better. Try three mags even if you don't switch over, you may see the point

Support thumb points to target and is over the top but not quite the spine/top rail

Just point ur support thumb where you want rounds to go

Thumb gets you close, optic/sights get you precision

Costa did a good job in the video above IMO

[stormvet]

Because it works.

[RobertMW]

The op was wondering why he was holding the M60 a certain way, not your unfounded personal opinion on the mans' character, nor James Yeagers

Actually, this vid just happened to pop up on YouTube and I thought it was entertaining. I know why he does what he does. But it was fun to watch him mag dump an M60.