ABlaster
Marksman
Long post warning.
So, I bought the book Pistol Personal Defense and it arrived this morning. It's not a long read. So I learned a long time ago to "sandwich" feedback. So you point out a positive, get into the negative, and end on some more positive.
So, overall I'm positive I've been had, but that aside the book does have some good content. The mechanics of gun handling section is pretty solid but some of the advice lacks context. Specifically, it talks about firing, releasing the trigger fast, and coming back to the "wall" where any further movement will trip the sear. It doesn't go into when that is appropriate and IMHO it is not for every shooting situation. It has a line item that reads "grip the pistol first, then fire, if you do both at the same time it will move the gun and you want to keep the gun without moving." I teach that as milking the grip, but it describes failing to isolate the trigger finger from the other three fingers.
The next section is legit the most needlessly over-thought description of how to grip a pistol I have ever seen. Here is an actual photo from the book.
The book does an excellent job of describing and showing the three basic sighting types (six o'clock, center, and 12 o'clock) and makes an excellent distinction between shooting in an action/CQB environment and shooting under no time constraints. Most people, even seasoned instructors, try and apply a precision shooing skillset to an action shooting environment and they don't mix.
The book moves on to building searches and the tactics are solid but need more description to fully flesh it out.
Here's the part where I feel like I've been had.
I believe the original poster may either be the actual author of the book or have some skin in the game for seeing it sell.
I'm basing that on a few things. The very first thing I saw was the first sentence of the preface says "...I am going from the elementary to the most advanced material." The underlines are present in the book, which almost exactly mirrors the OP's post in post #9, even the emphasis. The OP also identified themselves as an engineer, which tracks with the over-thought diagram. The book has some misspellings and weird sentence structure, just like the OP's posts, and finally (and the weakest evidence) is that the OP's name is Berettatiger, and in the book all the semi-auto photos are 92/M9 style pistols. Lastly, the OP has no other posts except the ones in this thread.
Anyway, contgratulations, Berettatiger/Agent Delta, I bought your book and while it needs to be fleshed out more it doesn't entirely suck.
So, I bought the book Pistol Personal Defense and it arrived this morning. It's not a long read. So I learned a long time ago to "sandwich" feedback. So you point out a positive, get into the negative, and end on some more positive.
So, overall I'm positive I've been had, but that aside the book does have some good content. The mechanics of gun handling section is pretty solid but some of the advice lacks context. Specifically, it talks about firing, releasing the trigger fast, and coming back to the "wall" where any further movement will trip the sear. It doesn't go into when that is appropriate and IMHO it is not for every shooting situation. It has a line item that reads "grip the pistol first, then fire, if you do both at the same time it will move the gun and you want to keep the gun without moving." I teach that as milking the grip, but it describes failing to isolate the trigger finger from the other three fingers.
The next section is legit the most needlessly over-thought description of how to grip a pistol I have ever seen. Here is an actual photo from the book.
The book does an excellent job of describing and showing the three basic sighting types (six o'clock, center, and 12 o'clock) and makes an excellent distinction between shooting in an action/CQB environment and shooting under no time constraints. Most people, even seasoned instructors, try and apply a precision shooing skillset to an action shooting environment and they don't mix.
The book moves on to building searches and the tactics are solid but need more description to fully flesh it out.
Here's the part where I feel like I've been had.
I believe the original poster may either be the actual author of the book or have some skin in the game for seeing it sell.
I'm basing that on a few things. The very first thing I saw was the first sentence of the preface says "...I am going from the elementary to the most advanced material." The underlines are present in the book, which almost exactly mirrors the OP's post in post #9, even the emphasis. The OP also identified themselves as an engineer, which tracks with the over-thought diagram. The book has some misspellings and weird sentence structure, just like the OP's posts, and finally (and the weakest evidence) is that the OP's name is Berettatiger, and in the book all the semi-auto photos are 92/M9 style pistols. Lastly, the OP has no other posts except the ones in this thread.
Anyway, contgratulations, Berettatiger/Agent Delta, I bought your book and while it needs to be fleshed out more it doesn't entirely suck.
