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 enlarge | Authors: W.e. Fairbairn, E.a. Sykes
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 729193
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 4.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0873640276
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780873640275
ASIN: 0873640276
Publication Date: April 1987
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 Great Manual get it for 5.99 at usbjj.com November 20, 2003
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Great book, all the basics of handgunning. However, I would buy it at usbjj.com or ebay for only $5.99 on CD. The US Military's Marksmanship Training Manual is simliar to this, with more grip illustrations, but not as extensive in other areas. Still a classic.
The title says it all September 28, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
One of the classics on combat shooting by two of the most interesting men that ever worked in law enforcement. Based on practical police experience in one of the worlds most dangerous cities the book lacks the usual macho posturing that many modern books have. The book quite simply is about "Shooting to Live". While there is no substitute for practice and training this book is a very good start on the practical realities of combat use of the handgun.
Concise and the most realistic August 23, 2002
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
You only have to compare the conditions found in a typical shooting range with what would be the most likely scenario
in a self defense confrontation to realise how unrealistic are the modern training methods. After having read this book and check its principles with some friends who are policemen and have participated in several gun fights (and in one case wet their pants and not with blood), this book is an absolute necessity if you are interested in actual self defense and not in shooting games.
Matt temkin from NYC June 20, 2001
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
I was a personal student of Rex Applegate and I consider this one of the most important shooting books ever written. This volume (written in 1942, but based on the authors experience with the SMP from 1907 to 1940) is as relevent today as the day it was written. From the descriptions of the typical gunfight(under 4 yards), to their dislike of competition/team shoots, to their theory of stopping power( we don't know what makes bullets effective so we recommend shooting until the threat drops), to shooting from behind cover, to using two hands for the ocasional long shot,to the use of the 'mystery house" for training, this volume was way ahead of its time. Why these ( and Rex Applegate's) methods fell out of favor for the nonsense being taught for the past 20 years is almost a sin. I've read this book dozens of times and I STILL learn something from it. Modern law enforcement/military instructors are finally praticing these methods and so should you. This book is a ten!
The best book on combat shooting that I have ever read! September 29, 2000
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Though this book is nearly 60 years old, and the techniques described in it were developed between the World Wars, this is still by far the best book I have ever read on combat pistol shooting. With only a few changes to reflect current pistol design and shooting doctrine, you could still use this as a manual for instruction today. In many ways the book is way ahead of its time as it recommends self-loading pistols over revolvers, discusses stopping power, body armour and suggests a layout for a tactical range that would be familiar to military/law-enforcement/IPSC shooters today. Thoroughly recommended to anyone who might have to use a pistol in a combat situation or who simply has an interest in the origins of modern tactical shooting techniques.
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