Surgical Speed Shooting

Book Review: Surgical Speed Shooting
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Surgical Speed Shooting helps you learn the secrets of shooting a handgun quickly and accurately under the extreme stress of a gunfight.

These cutting-edge techniques for managing recoil in rapid fire, high-speed trigger control and more are used by today’s hostage rescue teams and competitive grandmasters.

Andy Stanford is a well known firearm instructor, and the shooter on the cover is the famous/infamous James Yeager.

I actually come from a town near where Yeager came from and took my very first handgun permit from him before the goatee and tattoos.

All that aside, this book is about how to shoot fast and accurately – and that is something I can get behind no matter who is the person teaching.

How Shooting Stance Impacts Recoil Control

 

Shooting Stance Training Tip
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I love firearm training, especially instructor courses.

When running an instructor course I get to meet the best kind of people – smart, dedicated, and proficient shooters. Not only is it great fun, but I get to talk with people with all sorts of backgrounds.

I learned about the 300 blackout on a break at a course, got to discuss suppressors with a manufacturer, and today I get to share some training from a new NRA Pistol Instructor. We started talking and after class we decided to do a little video work.

The instructor in the video is Marcus Talley from Veteran’s Tactical in Mississippi.  He is not far from my land in Waynesboro TN and I hope to have him come teach on occasion.

In the video he is giving an example of why proper stance is important for accurate shooting and good follow-up shots.

If the shooter tenses up as they shoot multiple shots can get the shooter rocking, but too loose makes for a slow second shop.

A good balance where your body can absorb the recoil but not be taken too far off the target is optimal, and his tip of having a second shooter tap you hand while in stance can help you find that balance point.

Contour Camera Review

Gear Review: Contour Camera
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I recently purchased a contour +2 action camera to use in my video production.  I bought it because it was small, durable, had an external mic jack, streamed wireless to my phone, was water proof, and had a built in GPS.  So it only figures that I would do a post on a Contour Camera Review

When I got it, I found that it was oversold just a little bit – it has an HDMI out port – which they say allows it to be used as a webcam to apple computers – but the laptop I have is HDMI out only, so it will not work to tape my classes.

The video is a little jump as it has a low frame rate, and the lens makes everything look a little walleyed.

However, it comes with a waterproof case for scuba and snorkeling activities, and a bunch of different mounts – if I was using this solely as a gun cam, I would be very happy, as it is smaller and has more features than the go-pro.

Because I wanted a good quality camera with an external mic jack and I wanted to stay under $1000.00 I allowed myself to be taken by all the hoopla around this camera.  I guess sionce I have a waterproof case I can finannyl start working on shooting the Glock underwater…

PRN Episode #5 What to Do After a Shooting

PRN Episode #5 What to Do After a Shooting
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In this episode David talks about What to Do After a Shooting.

Its easy to learn how to shoot.  However, it is harder to learn when to shoot.  Even more so what to do after.  Because that is not always addressed in some classes.

There are two schools of thought when dealing with the police, and David discusses them both

The show is scheduled for Monday at 10pm central time at this link.

If you cannot listen on Monday, you can always download the podcast for listening at your own leisure.

I have several blog posts on this subject and have written about this on other sites like guns.com as well.  It is my view that there are many people teaching how to shoot, and a few teaching when to shoot, but learning What to Do After a Shooting is not as well covered in the instructor world.

If you don’t know how to handle yourself during police questioning you can find yourself a suspect instead of a crime victim.  The justice system has two different paths depending on its view of you as it relates to victim or subject.  Officers quickly decide which path to put you one, and it is extremely hard to get back if you have been derailed off of the crime victim track.  This is a topic I have written extensively about.