Is there a super good publication on pistol shooting technique?

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Is there a good book that teaches pistol shooting technique? I have been checking out the net and have found a couple of sights that have some fairly good info, but not exactly what I am looking for. Is there anything any of you could reccommend as a "bible" for a new shooter who is experiencing some difficulties? :(
 
First check out this vid. :D

Second go to the CMP store here, and think about getting a copy of the AMU (Army Marksmanship Unit) Pistol Guide.


Thats a nice little start, but I'm sure there's plenty of other awesome stuff out there that people will share.:D
 
The Modern Technique of the Pistol, by Gunsite Press.

From memory - little blue book. Might be a bit off on the name though.
 
Great video, thanks. Any more that you know of?

They just had .45's in that video. I wonder why those IPSC guys love them so much, but no agency's in the free world issue them. I like the way they shoot personally, but noone uses them for service, exept these IPSC guys. Wonder why that is?
 
http://www.brianenos.com/
Buy his book.
http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showforum=1
is the handgun techniques forum.

http://www.mattburkett.com/ Another good trainer with books/videos.

http://www.doublealpha.biz/ Saul Kirsh also sells books DVDs and training.

http://www.toddjarrett.com/ Todd Jarretts website.

IPSC shooters used to love the .45 1911. IPSC was pretty much guided by the ideas of Jeff Cooper. Jeff promoted the .45 ACP cartridge and the 1911 platform as the perfect combination for practical shooting, and the powerfactor handicap in favour of the .45 entrenched the product. The .45 has lost it's place at the top of the heap as guns and the game evolved.

These days the prefered calibre in Open Division IPSC is the .38 super in an STI or SVI double stack race gun, an evolved variant of the 1911. In Standard (limited) Division it's the .40 S&W, which is classified as 'major powerfactor' like the .45 and has more rounds available in a double stack gun. In Production Division it's the 9mm para in a production service pistol.
 
Refinement and Repetition, Dry Fire Drills for Dramatic Improvement

Radagast or anyone else,

On that Brian Enos site there is a book called "Refinement and Repetition, Dry Fire Drills for Dramatic Improvement."

Does anyone have an opinion on this book?

On another note, Radagast, is your middle and last name "the brown"?
 
On that Brian Enos site there is a book called "Refinement and Repetition, Dry Fire Drills for Dramatic Improvement."

Does anyone have an opinion on this book?
Very good book indeed, but it does not go into the specifics of shooting technique very much. It's more a collection of dry-practice drills designed to improve a particular area of your shooting.

Saul Kirschs book Perfect Practice is more along the same lines, but geared more toward live-fire practice.

- Chris
 
If you're having trouble hitting the target, nothing beats practice.
you could just break down at your local shooting range and ask a guy who's shooting really well "how did you do that?!" they're usually so humbled that they'll tell you what's wrong with your stance/sight alignment... etc.
 
Two of my favorites are "The Art of Handgun Shooting" by (then) Captain Charles Askins (unfortunately, long out of print but I see it from time to time at gunshows) and"The Pistol Shooter's Treasury", available from Gil Hebard Guns,Inc., 125 Public Square, Knoxville, IL 61448 (309) 289-2700, for $5.95.
 
J. Michael Plaxco's Shooting from Within
Brian Enos' Practical Shooting Beyond Fundamentals
Andy Stanford's Surgical Speed Shooting
 
GVMan, yep, Radagast the Brown, Radagast the fool, Radagast the bird tamer. I decided to stay out of the WMD wars (Weapons of Magical Destruction)and went shooting instead. :p
 
i too would reccomend the AMU publication. AMU has produced more top shooters than the rest combined.

after reading everything there is, you will realize that the underlying factor is the same in them. it all comes down to grip, stance, sight picture and trigger control. of these, trigger control is the number one factor. nothing turns out right if everything is perfect and you jerk the trigger

first off, ypu need a gun capanle of considerable accuracy. then, good ammo to feed it. this combination will shoot where you point the gun. if the shot goes into the seven ring, that is where it was pointed when it fired.

at big tournaments, big guns show up. the winner is not determined by who is the best shot, but, by who makes the fewest errors. and, shoot for the ten ring. tournaments are won by score, not X count.

practice is not how many rounds you fire, but, how methodical you go about it. twenty shots can mostly teach you more than two hundred. ignore the poor shots as you dont want to repeat them. pay close attention to each shot so you can understand what you did to get the good ones that you do want to repeat. and, don't despair, keep working, no one shoots all tens

learn trigger control and shoot fot the middle of the target and you will become a threat on the scoreboard. it is mostly in your mind, not technique

keep a notebook of your range experiences and scores. and, do an average of your recent scores. when you shoot, shoot for your average. if you could shoot higher scores, you would have a higher average.

good shooting and good practice
 
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