Jeff Cooper began experimenting with carbines as early as the mid-1960s. His work with these reduced rifles led to his conceptualized solution to the one rifle question—Steyr’s Scout Rifle. What is very often overlooked is the practical application and friendliness of the rifle Cooper was trying to create.
Richard Mann
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Dry Fire Drills: What They Can Teach You
Updated: December 8, 2013You do not have to make your gun go bang to improve your shooting. This is good news because often you cannot go to the range and sometimes you just cannot afford ammo. Dry practice, practice with your firearm without ammunition, is a viable training tool and can help you master many aspects of the defensive handgun.
Defensive Handgun Training – What we’re doing wrong?
Updated: October 26, 2013There is no shortage of variations in the training methods and doctrines employed when it comes to the defensive handgun. Shooting schools are operated all across the country, police academies are in every state, and thousands military personnel are trained at various levels and locations. The only thing these different educational processes really have in common is that they place an emphasis on getting hits. Beyond that you will find differences, some subtle, some drastic. These differences apply to not just the doctrine that is taught but to the methods of instruction. The point of this article is not to offer one method or doctrine as the best, but to make you think about a few things that many defensive handgun instructional programs do the same. It seems to me that these programs make some mistakes. Here are some of what I consider the most common and egregious errors.