Colonel Jeff Cooper, USMC (Ret.) Originally published in the Guns & Ammo 1975 Annual Issue. So here we are in the “Age of Extortion!” Our local friendly felons have finally discovered what has long been taken for granted in what we used to call “more backward countries” — that crime does pay, in millions….
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Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946
Jeff Cooper’s First Article Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially…
Gross Motor Skills and Weapon Manipulation
Gross Motor Skills and Weapon Manipulation I pull this article from the archives every year or so as a FUNDMENTAL REFRESHER. Incorporate these truths into your training regimen and watch your Speed and Accuracy increase.
Shooting Mechanics: Cooper’s El Presidente
Classic Combat Pistol Drill: Cooper’s El Presidente When my father first started teaching me to shoot a handgun around nine or ten years old, he used Cooper’s Modern Technique to cement the fundamentals and then a few years later the El Presidente to combine all of these skills together. One of the things I distinctly…
Cooperism Trifecta
Know Your Weapons: What’s Up With Norway and Military Scout Scopes?
Aside from the German widespread issue of the ZF-41 type scope, I have only come across three other military uses of long eye relief optics – and they are all Norwegian! One is simply Norwegian reuse of surrendered German K98k-ZF41 scopes, including updating them to .30-06 in the 1950s (these were eventually replaced by the… What’s…
Putting the FIGHT before the TOOL
From the Archives, 2014 Certain words in the English vocabulary produce very strong mental pictures when they are used. Take for instance the word “Gunfight”. When we hear it, despite the story that may go along with it, we often imagine two or more people blazing away at each other, bullets whizzing through the air….
Dave Lauck sends: Notes On Competitive Shooting
In his later years Jeff Cooper was highly critical of the IPSC and other Competitive Shooting organizations for their over-emphasis on the use “race guns” versus everyday carry guns. Bottom line, if you are going to use Competitive shooting to keep your skills sharp, TRAIN with what you carry (and wear) everyday and keep the…
Action This Day!
Run, Hide Or Fight, NZ Hero Abdul Aziz Choose To Fight Some people CHOOSE to Fight and not RUN when the chips are down. “The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail… the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.” -Jeff Cooper While reading this article a nagging thought kept…
Home Owner Uses AK-47 in Self-Defense
Houston Gunfight, Deadly as OK Corral; Home Owner Uses AK47 in Self Defense For all those folks out there that say a semi-automatic rifle with a 30 round magazine (what you liberals call an “Assault Rifle”) has no place in a civilian’s arsenal, consider this scenario where a lone homeowner was confronted with five…