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Title: Surgical Speed Shooting : How To Achieve High-Speed Marksmanship In A Gunfight by Andy Stanford ISBN: 1-58160-143-3 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You can benefit from reading this book
Comment: Beginner, intermediate, or advanced shooter, you can benefit from reading this book. This book isn't as complex as the title might suggest. Stanford applies a keep it simple approach. Ultimately, his key to high speed marksmanship is a sound focus on the fundamentals. That's an easy thing to lose grasp of when you're trying hard to build skill and get better.
The second half of the book is really full of gems. I particularly liked Stanford's treatment of one-handed shooting. He points out that a very likely reason you'd have to shoot one handed is because you're fending off blows, wrestling, or fighting with the other hand. He give that topic a good treatment. The photos in that chapter tell a lot too.
Stanford is part of a current new wave of firearms instructors. This wave is taking a realistic approach to shooting as a fighting skill. They acknowledge that you're likely to be scared, shaky, and uncoordinated when you actually have to use a pistol to defend your life. Stanford and these other new instructors are teaching simple techniques that you can use when you're gasping for air and at wits end.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very disappointing
Comment: The author spends the first third of the book ranting about how stupid people are who use the Weaver stance. He seems more concerned about making his point with Weaver fans than in actually teaching anything. He makes many statements throughout that do not inspire confidence in his advice. The first rule of life is to be careful where you get advice, and that goes doubly true if your life will depend on it. While there are some good concepts here, there is nothing that is not explained better in other books.
Save your money and buy something from Gabe Suarez instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book on shooting
Comment: I don't give a book 5 stars for nothing, but this time I had to do it. This book covers just about every aspect of shooting a handgun in combat, and it does it in detail. Stanford devotes a whole chapter on every aspect of shooting; grip, stance, trigger control, and so on.
I especially like the author's attitude: He tells his opinions on the correct techniques, then gives his justifications, but he doesn't force his opinions to the reader. For example, he is an Isosceles man, but still recommends a reader to attend different instructor's courses; even to those who teach Weaver, and tells everyone to find out what technique works best for him.
The reason this book is worth 5 stars is that it doesn't try to cover every aspect of combat, but rather focuses on shooting techniques, and does exellent work at that. I much rather read few exellent books on different aspects of combat, than several mediocre books that try to cover it all.
Just about only downside to this book it it's name. I almost didn't buy the book, because the name indicates that the book is about competitive combat shooting, not real life combat.
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Title: Tactical Pistol Marksmanship: How to Improve Your Combat Shooting Skills by Gabriel Suarez, Gabe Suarez ISBN: 1581602782 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Defensive Shooting for Real-Life Encounters: A Critical Look at Current Training Methods by Ralph Mroz ISBN: 1581600941 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Tactical Pistol : Advanced Gunfighting Concepts And Techniques by Gabriel Suarez ISBN: 0873648641 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Tactical Advantage : A Definitive Study Of Personal Small-Arms Tactics by Gabriel Suarez ISBN: 0873649753 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: How To Become A Master Handgunner : The Mechanics Of X-Count Shooting by Charles Stephens ISBN: 0873647092 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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