Tactical Pistol Marksmanship: How To Improve Your Combat Shooting Skills

Gabriel Suarez is one of the best known authors on tactics and shooting, and for a reason. As with other books by Suarez, this book is written in clear and easy to read style, and the book is filled with photographs to add to the clarity of the text. Sadly, most of the photos are a bit too dark, or the lighting is bad (strong light coming directly from the side, for example). However, the pictures are clear enough to see what they are depicting.Suarez starts with a brief history of combat handguns and combat handgunning. Then he proceeds to weapon and ammo selection, and he also touches the subjets of accessories. These chapters are short however, and you just can't make a selection on proper defensive ammunition, for example, by just reading three pages. Suarez gives a few valuable pointers on what to take into consideration when choosing proper gear, however.Next Suarez addresses the basics of handgun shooting: the grip, stance, loading and unloading the gun, proper sight picture, and safety rules. After the basics he advances to ready positions, tactical and speed reloads and so on. Interestingly, he is not as strict in his opinions as he used to be. These chapters contain some ideas that are very interesting and were new to me.The next few chapters are what sets this book apart from most: Suarez gives detailed training program to improve your accuracy and speed. He also advises that you don't have to spend vast amount of money on trainig ammo, as majority of training can be conducted as dry practise. Besides, quality beats quantity anyway. This section is worth the price of the book alone.At the end Suarez tells "the truth about point shooting", and answers to some frequently asked questions. The question of point shooting seems to be a hard one, as Suarez defends aimed fire by giving what seems to be almost the same rationale as point shoters use when defending their point of view.In the end, I would give this book 4 ½ stars, if it were possible. Full five stars is reserved for special occasions, so I give this book "only" four.

Having lived tactical shooting as a core part of my life this is a good starting point and guide for some of the core concepts associated with tactical shooting. I would say this is a decent book #1 for anyone getting started with tactical shooting.I strongly disagree with the author on his disparaging and limited coverage of non-sight, "push" shooting. This is a technic that is critical to learn and practical in many tactical shooting scenarios.The book has a fairly law enforcement oriented take on tactical shooting and limits itself in that sense. Not a complete treatise or coverage on tactical shooting.Good basics book. Kudos to the author for a solid work.

This comprehensive work covers all the shooting fundamentals such as considerations for choosing a weapon, figuring out what type of ammunition to purchase, and understanding shooting essentials (e.g., grip, stance, sight picture, safety). These pages are pithy with just enough depth for readers to understand the important ideas. The best part of the book, however, is the detailed training program which can markedly improve your speed and accuracy with a hand gun. I shot competitively for years, going through as much as 10,000 rounds per annum in practice. Believe you me, that ain't cheap. With Suarez's dry practice advice, you do not have to spend anywhere near as much I did to improve your technique. There is also a great section on extreme low light shooting, much better than I've seen in other books. This is a very well written textbook on the finer points of marksmanship and defensive handgun skills. You can implement many of these ideas and see improvements right away.Lawrence KaneAuthor of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction

Gabe Suarez covers a wide range of topics: Pistol Selection, Ammunition, Accessories, Loading, Unloading, Grip, Stance, etc... It's an excellent overview of combat shooting for those just beginning to learn and a great review for those with more advanced skills.There are numerous illustrations, a list of resources and practice drills (both live fire and dry fire).Overall a well written book that covers a lot of ground. Suarez advocates perfect practice and dry fire training. He says..."the more you shoot, the worse shot you will become." From a personal perspective, my skills began to increase significantly after I decreased my live fire practice sessions and focused more on dry fire at home. Although it took me a while to believe in the concept; perfect practice at a slow to moderate pace WILL make you smooth and that smoothness is what makes you fast (i.e. slow is smooth and smooth is fast).

Good Buy, Fast Delivery Would recommend

Suarez' books on shooting have always been very good in both content and presentation, combining solid information with an easy and fluid style. This one's no different; covering everything from gun selection to carry modes to stance and combat movement, it does what it says on the tin and nothing else. This is how gun books should be written.

Exactly what I expected.

Il s agit d une compilation de toutes les techniques de tirs tactiques mis au service de la communauté des tireurs pro pour accroitre son efficacité lors d engagements de survie. Dans cet ouvrage tout est remarquable la pédagogie mais aussi la netteté des techniques de tir ainsi que la simplicité et modestie de l auteur qui ne cherche jamais a se valoriser mais au contraire a faire progresser les eleves tireurs.L auteur est un grand professionnel digne d éloge pour son savoir faire et surtout pour son faire savoir. En un mot du grand artDe la part de Gilles MACCHI in FRANCE

Gabriel Suarez hat mit diesem Buch die Verbindung zwischen Lerninhalt und Unterhaltung perfekt hergestellt. Sehr zu empfehlen.Das Englisch ist leicht verständlich und zur Erläuterung tragen Skizzen und Bilder bei