Shooting To Live
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Product Description
Shooting to Live is the product of Fairbairn’s and Sykes’ practical experience with the handgun. Hundreds of incidents provided the basis for the first true book on life-or-death shootouts with the pistol. Shooting to Live teaches all concepts, considerations and applications of combat pistolcraft.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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IN 1942 IT WAS WAY AHEAD OF IT TIME!
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I rate this book a strong 3.5 (stars).
This classic manual was way ahead of its time in 1943, and some of the theory still holds true today. This book was a joint venture by two of the most respected gunfighters of the day; Fairbairn and Sykes. This book shows both the authors no nonsense approach to teaching and employing these combat prove techniques. The same techniques taught to the World War II American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), British Commandos and the Shanghai Police and this is just but a few examples of players who employed these methods.
This book is a superlative work on "modern" pistolcraft (in 1942) dealing with the intricacy's of pistol selection, close quarters shooting methods and stopping power theory. Although it focuses on autoloaders the methods can be applied to revolvers (if one really cared to use one over an auto-loader).
Overall this is an important and significant title for its historical study and value. Today a lot of the methods have been debunked or improvements have been made on the techniques in the evolution of combat pistol shooting leaving much of the material in the book dated. As well there continues to be heated debates on the validity of "point shooting". Although it being a dated book I fully recommend it for historical/academic study.
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Combat Shooting
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Shooting To Live offers great thoughts on the Fairbairn and Sykes method of point shooting. They educates a surprising amount of "modern" material for a book written in the early part of the 20th century.
A few points I enjoyed:
-Fairbairn and Sykes trained on negative targets.
-They incorporated failure-to-fire drills into their training.
-Fairbairn and Sykes utilized different gun positions based on proximity of the threat. And they fired off of the centerline.
-I found one point of particular interest is the ideal sight design for a defensive pistol (an express style sight as used on big game rifles, with the front sight being a large bead of ivory or silver). An Very worthwhile purchase and read.
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Overpriced but Interesting look at history
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Fairbairn and Sykes were way ahead of their time. Many of the concepts in this book can be seen today in several different forums; tactical pistol shooting techniques, concealed carry weapon and holster design, indoor shoot houses, moving target training and competition.
That said, there is some advice that has not proven itself over time. For example, they recommend you disable the safety on the 1911 and carry it without one in the pipe. Most people would disagree with that advice today for tactical as well as legal reasons.
Formatted as a small pocket book with a fuzzy "manual typewritter" font, with only 96 pages it can be read in a single session. A historically significant book that is well worth reading but overpriced.
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Shooting to Live
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This 1942 reprint was the first Practical Handgun Training Book for Police and Military. Experience taken from years with the Shanghi China Police Dept who patrolled the most dangerous streets in the World, this book was a compulation of what worked in over 600 deadly encounters between police officers using only handguns and criminals attempting to kill them. This is a great piece of history of law enforcement.
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Of Greater historical than practical interest.
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The book is a classic, setting forth what has become widely accepted doctrine on defensive shooting. It is clearly written and commonsensical. The chattiness gets a little tiresome, with all the references to the now-grizsled author's youth and adventures.
It's certainly interesting as an example of the first-generation of practical shooting books, but I'd advise people to borrow a copy instead of buying one.
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