Posted on 03/02/2011 8:27:17 AM PST by fightinJAG
The author was an IDF officer in a combat unit.
In this article I'll teach you a simple technique that will allow you to shoot your handgun accurately. We'll start with the steps you need to take, I'll explain what happens when you fire a handgun and how it affects you, and then I'll give you a few simple tips to reinforce your new shooting technique. If you follow my steps and tips, and invest a few hours working on this technique at home, you'll be able to shoot your handgun much more accurately. In fact, if you practice for as little as a week, you'll even surprise yourself with much improved accuracy!
The technique comprises of four simple steps: You get into a proper stance, you grip your handgun efficiently, while acquiring a decent sight picture, and then applying your full attention on trigger control. Combine these simple steps with discipline to practice, and basic understanding of what happens when you fire a handgun, and you'll be shooting like a pro in no time.
Let's look at what happens when you fire a handgun. It's important to understand because the forces you unleash affect your ability to shoot well. When you pull the trigger and fire your handgun, you initiate a small, controlled explosion. That in turn generates pressure which propels your bullet, through your handguns' barrel toward the target. The explosion and subsequent travel of the bullet through the barrels' rifling, generates noise, recoil and a twisting motion. Our technique takes this into account, and teaches you how to manage this process with professional ease.
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You got that right!
I also remember an incident when the soldier swore up and down he had checked the chamber -— BOOM.
Uh-huh.
The thing is sometimes no matter how hard one tries, mistakes are made. Especially when it’s dark, one is tired and cold as hell, etc.
We had several areas where everybody had to fire into the barrel before entering.
shooting bump
>Yeah, the clearing barrel. I distinctly remember a ‘squared away’ officer grumbling while going over to use it after coming off a convoy. Then a loud bang. Woopsie.
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>Clearing barrels are a good thing!
F—ed up thing is that any discharge in a clearing-barrel [at least when I was in Iraq] was grounds for non-judicial punishment.
That’s right, the clearing barrels are for DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY! [/semi-sarc]
“F—ed up thing is that any discharge in a clearing-barrel [at least when I was in Iraq] was grounds for non-judicial punishment.
That’s right, the clearing barrels are for DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY! [/semi-sarc]”
Yeah, that sounded like more of a rumor at the time. Remember the amnesty boxes? They were an oddity until they started receiving RPGs, AKs, PKMs, RPKs, etc. Then the whole subject became a, ahem, training opportunity. Seems it was easier to dump confiscated weapons in the amnesty box than catalog, store and dispose of them.
Thank you. God bless.
Seems to me that a shooter who was so unstable as to be teetering on the edge of disaster due to the confusing nature of the “Cooper rules” and could only be brought back from the brink by learning the “NRA rules” should probably seriously consider something more user friendly than a firearm, like a rock or stick.
Even then, it would be an extremely dicey proposition.
modern firearms are very simple tools to operate, whereas i have many lawn and garden and household tools that require MUCH more study to use properly and safely, albeit that usually a disregard for those doesnt result in harm to others...
a basic 'rules' set is nothing more than age old common sense in a redundant package, designed to be 'lived' as a guard against unintended consequences...
my skill saw has a blade in it, my chain saw is usually 'loaded' as well, they are simply tools that perform certain tasks for my well being, dumbing down the owners manual doesnt enhance safety...
An empty gun is a club. Jeff Cooper.
“”Even then, it would be an extremely dicey proposition.””
Poor chap - obviously educated way beyond his intellect......
An empty gun is a club. Jeff Cooper.
Then load it ! Reading was a skillset lost on Jeff. If you intend to "carry", are you ready to use the gun ????
Most likey because he was an arrogant blowhard.
Calling Cooper names will not win you many fans on FR. He taught a lot of people to shoot very well.
Massad Ayoob out-shot him with his weak hand.
You have no qualms trash mouthing the best firearms trainer. What a hypocrite.
Target, target, target!
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