Surgical Speed Shooting: How To Achieve High-Speed Marksmanship In A Gunfight
by Andy Stanford
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Author: Andy StanfordEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07-01
ISBN: 1581601433
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Paladin Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
Andy Stanford's name is well-known to people heavily involved in the firearms training community. His main claim to fame is as the winner of the fourth National Tactical Invitationals. A Master class IDPA shooter, he also runs a training school called Options for Personal Security (OPS).
In this book Stanford takes high-speed gun handling and marksmanship techniques that saw their genesis in IPSC (the International Practical Shooting Confederation, simulated gunfighting competition) and uses them as the basis for his recommended self-defense shooting methods. Kind of the best of both worlds there. High-speed, precision gun handling is the serious IPSC shooter's forte. It only makes sense, if you want the best techniques available to shoot fast and straight in a real-world emergency, you apply methods developed, and used, by the best practical pistol shooters.
Stanford's recommended techniques are built around the Modern Isosceles stance. In a clever play on Jeff Cooper's Weaver-centric "Modern Technique of the Pistol," Stanford refers to the Modern Isosceles as the "Post-Modern Technique of the Pistol." Also recommended are the straight-thumbs method of gripping a handgun, so identified with IPSC that many people call it "the IPSC grip." Stanford understands things about the subtleties of this grip technique I've never seen discussed in a book before. I only knew them myself by piecing together things I've learned during years of reading on the topic, and personal instruction from some of the best firearms trainers on Earth.
Particularly impressive is Stanford's instruction on trigger control. The method he recommends, of taking up the slack, prepping the trigger, firing the shot, hitting the trigger reset and re-prepping the trigger while the gun is still in recoil, is one of two techniques used by advanced-level shooters (the other being "trigger slapping"). In my experience, trigger control is the area of marksmanship in which the serious student is least likely to find competent instruction...because most firearms instructors don't really understand the concept, and can't execute it themselves. That's not the case with Andy Stanford.
Because this book is concerned with self-defense shooting, in places the pure efficiency of a technique has been sacrificed for perceived tactical superiority. For instance, most decent IPSC shooters fire from an almost upright position with only a bit of forward lean; Stanford by contrast prefers a much more forwardly aggressive body posture in case you have to resist being bowled over by a charging attacker. Also, when describing his recommended draw stroke, Stanford elects to flag the support hand high and flat against the chest during the first part of the draw, staging it to execute contact distance hand-to-hand combat techniques, if necessary. From the standpoint of pure speed, of course, it's faster to hold the hand slightly away from the body, ready to accept the gun. So there has been some tinkering with the basic techniques to make them more "tactical."
Surgical Speed Shooting is touted in Paladin Press literature as providing "truly advanced techniques for grip, stance, aiming, and follow-through." And that's true, if by "truly advanced" you mean "based on the best techniques out there." On the other hand, there's little here that the best IPSC shooters in the world didn't figure out 20-plus years ago. What makes this book valuable - and make no mistake, I consider this a very valuable book - is that, more so than anything else I've every read, it gathers those best techniques between the covers of one slim volume, and presents them in a fashion the average shooter can understand.
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Summary of Surgical Speed Shooting: How To Achieve High-Speed Marksmanship In A Gunfight
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.Military Science Books
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