The relevance of the study is due to the need to substantiate the differentiated exercise of physical training in hard of hearing and deaf shooters in the process of sports training. The physical fitness of deaf and hardofhearing shooters at the stage of initial training is determined as the subject of the study. The aim of the study was a comparative analysis of the indicators of physical fitness of deaf and hard of hearing shooters at the stage of initial training. To achieve the goal, the following research methods were used: analysis of scientific and methodical literature on the research problem, analysis of normative documentation regulating the training process in bullet shooting for athletes with hearing impairment, pedagogical observation, testing of physical qualities, methods of mathematical statistics, generalization. Results of the study: the results of physical fitness of deaf and hard of hearing shooters are analyzed; differences in the manifestation of a number of abilities between deaf and hard of hearing athletes are revealed, provisions for the development of methods of differentiated physical training with an emphasis on lagging abilities in each group are substantiated. The results of the study can be recommended for practical application to athletes with hearing impairment specializing in bullet shooting, their coaches in order to improve both the process of physical training and the implementation of its qualitative and full control.