The Ultimate Shooting Skills Manual


Book Description

A showcase for basic firearm skills and the most current shooting equipment and methods in use today from the bestselling team at Outdoor Life. Whatever you’re shooting, whether it’s a tricked-out MSR, a tight 1911, or a custom skeet gun, the experts at Outdoor Life have the know-how you need to take your skills to the next level. Covers handguns, rifles, shotguns, and ARs. RANGE SKILLS & HUNTING: This book is filled with tips and tricks that build solid shooting fundamentals, letting you shoot faster and more accurately. Detailed drills for advanced gun handling and manipulation complete an expert course in range accuracy. PERSONAL PROTECTION: Fortune favors the prepared, whether you’re protecting your family while out on the streets or guarding your home. The sensible, real-world tips on concealed carry and personal protection in this book could save your life. COMPETITION: Insider tips from top competitors guide you through hands-on pistol, revolver, precision rifle, AR, and action shotgun drills and techniques you can apply anywhere you shoot.




The Ultimate Optics Guide to Rifle Shooting


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The Ultimate Optics Guide to Rifle Shooting walks you through each step of the process on how to use your optical rifle scope to its maximum potential. A complete and comprehensive guide to using your rifle scope in the field or on the range. The optical rifle scope has been in use for more than one hundred years, but it's not until now that a book has come along to teach the shooter how to truly use it. Law Enforcement and Military Snipers, competition shooters and hunters, this book will raise your shooting skills to a whole new level of effectiveness. With illustrations and full description of each facet of the operation of the rifle scope this book is a must for anyone who uses an optic on a firearm. The author speaks to you in a language that every shooter can understand and gives you real world examples of its uses.




The Total Gun Manual


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One of the most trusted brands in outdoor sports brings you the bigger and better gun reference—with new sections that reflect trends and developments. David E. Petzal and Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream’s shooting sports experts, are the top-rated writers working in the field today, due to their knowledge, experience, and their ability to communicate even complicated topics with clear, simple language and a dry and engaging wit. New hints cover range-shooting skills, the fastest-growing segment of the shooting world. For newbies and weekend shooters, the range offers a safe, affordable way to try out target practice and have fun with friends. The book also covers: Gun basics: Getting started, gun safety, choosing the right gun, and more. Handguns: Expanded handgun section covers range, target, and indoor shooting for the casual enthusiast and the serious shooter. Rifles: Whether for hunting or target practice, David Petzal has decades of experience and expertise, and shares it all with his trademark sense of humor. Shotguns: Phil Bourjaily is a year-round hunter as well as coaching clay and skeet shooting teams, so he knows his shotguns and how to impart tips and tricks. Gear up, shoot better, hunt smarter, stay safer with The Total Gun Manual. “If you’re looking for a new product for the hunter in your family, or someone who just has an appreciation for firearms, The Total Gun Manual is packed full of great tips and advice.” —BroBility




Total Gun Manual (Field & Stream)


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Shares insider hints, stories from the range and field, and hands-on guidance for the first-time gun owner and the seasoned veteran alike, offering advice on choosing the right gun, increasing shot accuracy, and staying safe.




Shoot


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Whether you’re a firearms enthusiast, an experienced shooter, or someone who has never even held a gun, Shoot: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition will help you explore different types of firearms, understand crucial safety rules, and learn fundamental shooting skills. This book provides an introduction to a wide variety of shooting sports through detailed descriptions that relate each type of competition to everyday activities and interests. High-quality photography from actual competitions and step-bystep instructional images augment the clearly written descriptions of both basic and advanced shooting skills. Throughout the book, Julie shares beneficial tips, explains sportspecific lingo, and stresses vital safety concerns. Going beyond just a skill-building manual for those new to firearms and shooting, Shoot addresses competition stress, goal setting, logging, and beneficial practice techniques to help all shooters, from novices to champions, excel and take their skills to the next level.




The Modern Day Gunslinger


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“This book will save lives.” —Dick Conger. An all-encompassing manual that addresses safety, equipment, tactics, and the best practices for all shooters, here is an all-encompassing book of use to every gun owner. A result of twelve years of research, The Modern Day Gunslinger was written to meet the needs of the gun owner, the experienced shooter, those who own a weapon strictly for home and self-defense, and for the military member who wants to become a better shooter in defense of our country. It’s also for the law enforcement officer who risks his or her life going against the thugs of our society and for anyone interested in learning the defensive and tactical training techniques from some of the best and most experienced shooters in the world. This comprehensive training manual includes chapters on: Weapons and Range Safety Dry Fire Use of Force Living in a Battlefield Combat Mindset Shooting Competence Handguns Defensive Handgun Ammunition Marksmanship Stance Basic Kneeling Positions Ready Positions The Draw Strokes Grip and Trigger Control Visual Techniques and Sight Alignment Multiple Shots Follow-Through and Scan Loading, Reloading, and Unloading Malfunctions Low- and No-Light Shooting Concealed Carry and Holsters Learning Styles Training Fundamentals Shooting Drills The shooting skills taught in this book carry broad application in civilian, law enforcement, and military contexts. Common criminals, terrorists, assailants—the enemy and threat—all will find themselves outgunned in the face of a properly armed and trained gunslinger. Members of the armed services, government and law enforcement agencies, as well as civilians, will find that the close-range shooting methods addressed in this book can provide a decisive advantage.




Long Range Shooting Handbook


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"This book is the complete beginner's guide to long range shooting written in simple every-day language so that it's easy to follow. Included are personal tips and best advice from my years of special operations sniper schooling and experience, and as a sniper instructor. If you are an experienced shooter, this guide will be a resource covering the principles and theory of long range shooting"--




Shotgun Guide (Field & Stream)


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From the most trusted brand in outdoor sports, Field & Stream, this book is drawn from the Total Gun Manual, the latest in the top-selling series that began with The Total Outdoorsman (200,000 copies in print!). Author Phil Bourjaily is the magazine’s Shotguns Editor, a popular blogger, and co-host of the Gun Nuts show on the Outdoor Channel (sponsored by Smith & Wesson). When it comes to shotguns, Field & Stream’s Phil Bourjaily is the real deal. He loves to talk guns, to clay shoot, and to hunt waterfowl, upland birds, turkeys, small game, and even deer with a shotgun. He has a wealth of advice and opinions to share, and isn’t shy about doing so. Charismatic and funny, he’s the guy you’d want helping you choose the right gun, fix your stance, and bag the ultimate Thanksgiving turkey. This book covers all the basics: Understanding your gun options, choosing the right gun for every situation, understanding shot and shells, old-school blackpowder hints, improving your shooting and hunting performance, and much, much more.




The Ultimate Sniper


Book Description

Through revised text, new photos, specialised illustrations, updated charts and additional information sidebars, The Ultimate Sniper once again thoroughly details the three great skill areas of sniping; marksmanship, fieldcraft and tactics.