| | |  | Training | Home » » Tactical Pistol Shooting: Your Guide to Tactics & Techniques that Work, 2nd Edition | | | | | | | Description: | | Mastering the basics is the only way to shoot faster or more accurately, and this goal can be achieved only with proper instruction and critiques. This consolidated, easy-to-read handbook provides a base knowledge that offers laymen and/or professional operators the references to learn/maintain their skills with their pistol, thus raising their level of safety and competence. Whether you carry a pistol for living or for defense, this book will help you attain the level of training desired. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Erik Lawrence | | Paperback:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| Gun Digest Books | | Publication Date:
| November 07, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1440204365 | | Product Length:
| 9.06 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.52 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.65 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.19 pounds | | Package Length:
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| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
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| 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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55 of 56 found the following review helpful:
 Best Shooting Book for the PriceJan 09, 2008
By Library Picks Reviews
"Library Picks Staff"
We just finished reviewing 10 recent tactical shooting books (2000 to 2008) for an upcoming magazine article, and Lawrence's Tactical Pistol Shooting is light years ahead of all the others, regardless of price.
If you spend $5,000 and go to Gunsite (we teach blade combat as one of the Yavapai modules), you will walk away with almost the same knowledge as buying Lawrence's book for under 20 bucks! Erik covers all the most recent topics and insights, and does it with tons of illustrations, lots of lists, and extremely practical advice for the real world. Even our seasoned NRA instructors are raving about his thoroughness.
There is NO wasted space in this book. Others spend time arguing about stance, quoting philosophy, etc. for "fill." Lawrence PACKS the book with original and unusual professional topics, including gun fighting while injured, knife fighting, and many other unexpected pearls. 8 of the other 10 we reviewed were ok for beginners, this book has enough beef for even the most experienced pro.
41 of 43 found the following review helpful:
Top 3 of all books on tactical shootingNov 08, 2005
By annonymous fed
"Train like you will fight"
As a federal agent and a prior police officer, I loved this book. It is concise, well illustrated, and straight to the point. If you can only read one book, and you need to learn tactics and techniques that could save your life, this is it. This author puts out a good book, and I just wish I could train with him. The only negative, it should have been longer so that it would have more time to read. The people he list as reading and critiquing the book are real world players who have tested this stuff in combat, especially Tom Wilburn. Soldiers, police officers, and civilians will learn an effective way to protect their lives.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Tactical Pistol Shooting 'Your Guide to Tactics that work'Jan 23, 2006
By Rusty
"Rusty"
What saves lives in a gun fight is doing the basics well. This is one of the best books out there for teach the basics. Excellent pictures and easy to understand discriptions makes this book great for all levels of marksman. If your getting into pistol shooting or want to learn how tactical teams shoot this is a must have.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 A lot of good info but...Aug 18, 2008
By D. Hover
Erik Lawrence has a lot of good information in this book, and for many it does give a great overview of a lot of material. That being said, some of the techniques shown are not current. This is in no way to diminish Mr. Lawerence's military background, but some habits that one learns in the military have been proven outdated by those at say, Gunsite, Thunder Ranch, Sig academy and so on. For example, using just the forefinger and thumb to release the slide, has been essentially dropped from many a schools curricula in favor of a "saddle grip" that is with the thumb facing rearward and four fingers grasping the slide, using two major muscle groups are more efficient than using two fingers to grasp the slide. Secondly shooting over cover is generally a bad idea, as it highlights the one thing that you don't want shot, your head! Again, these could be stylistic differences, but noting the recent publication date of the text, these things have already been covered and updated prior to publishing. Positional shooting, reloads, and malfunctions are covered very well. Again a good book, but not the instant classic as some are claiming it is. Also a trip to gunsite can never be replaced by a book.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Not bad, but hardly authoritativeDec 05, 2010
By John M. Buol Jr.
"John M. Buol Jr."
As always happens, the best ideas about shooting start in the competition world and eventually trickle down from there, first by top trainers and more elite spec ops, then the general gun public and finally to the doctrines taught by law enforcement and the military.
If you want to see what ideas and concepts will be "cutting edge" in the spec ops community five years from now, go attend good formal competition shooting events today.
"Tactical Pistol Shooting: Your Guide to Tactics & Techniques that Work" by Erik Lawrence proves that. Brian Enos published "Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals" in 1990 based on his findings and success in competition shooting through the 1980's. This book, written sixteen years later, merely echoes these findings.
Basically, as a special operations soldier Mr. Lawerence was a student of a teacher that learned high level shooting from people like Enos. Later, Mr. Lawerence decided to write a book about it.
This isn't a bad thing. The whole point of organized shooting is to create a format that people can experiment and learn from. By risking only points in a match, instead of life and limb, participants can try things and have an objective measure of the results. This book is more simplistic than "Beyond Fundamentals" and more approachable by most people. The shooting advice given is sound and if you don't already have a decent text on practical pistol shooting this is a good one to consider.
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