The 100 Greatest Combat Pistols: Hand-On Tests and Evaluations of Handguns from Around the World

The 100 Greatest Combat Pistols: Hand-On Tests and Evaluations of Handguns from Around the World Review

After reading this book, you will know which combat pistols to bet your life on and which to avoid at all costs, how to match current ammo with vintage weapons, how to field-fix handguns and which weapons of opportunity are most likely to turn up during current conflicts. This highly informative and enjoyable read is crammed with practical tips, rare historical insight and exceptional weapons you probably won't see anywhere else.

The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense

The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense Review

Containing information on current state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, updated safety information, and accounts of incidents of concealed handgun self-defense, this comprehensive handbook intends to prevent gun owners from becoming the victims of a criminal or terrorist attack. The book offers advice for selecting and buying a handgun, discussions of the importance of self-protection, methods for concealing weapons, and an examination of the mental attitude required in case of an armed encounter, as well as advice on how to avoid violent encounters entirely. In addition to providing a current list of handguns suitable for concealed carry, this updated edition includes new information about the psychological ramifications of using deadly force against another human being and provides information and context from recent events, such as the mass shootings at Virginia Tech and in Tucson, Arizona.

Shooter's Bible Guide to Combat Handguns

Shooter's Bible Guide to Combat Handguns Review

From the top, trusted source on firearms comes a brand new guide for the popular combat and defensive handguns.

For more than 100 years, Shooter’s Bible has been the ultimate comprehensive resource for shooting enthusiasts across the board. Trusted by everyone from competitive shooters to hunters to those who keep firearms for protection, this leading series is always expanding. Here is the first edition of the Shooter’s Bible Guide to Combat Handguns—your all-encompassing resource with up-to-date information on combat and defensive handguns, training and defensive ammunition, handgun ballistics, tactical and concealment holsters, accessories, training facilities, and more. No Shooter’s Bible guidebook is complete without a detailed products section showcasing handguns from all across the market.

Author Robert Sadowski proves to be a masterful instructor on all aspects of handguns, providing useful information for every reader, from those with combat handgun experience in military and law enforcement fields to private citizens, first-timers, and beyond.
300 color illustrations

The Modern Day Gunslinger: The Ultimate Handgun Training Manual

The Modern Day Gunslinger: The Ultimate Handgun Training Manual Review

“The Modern Day Gunslinger is pure dynamite—a gunfighter’s bible. It is a must-read for the beginner, the master, or (perhaps most of all) the trainer.”—Lt. Col. David Grossman, author of the Pulitzer Prize–nominated On Killing

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.

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. An all-encompassing manual that addresses safety, equipment, tactics, and the best practices for all shooters, The Modern Day Gunslinger is the most all-encompassing book on shooting ever published. It’s a book that, in the words of senior special agent and U.S. government senior weapons and tactics instructor Dick Conger, “will save lives.” 200 color photographs

Handgun Bullet Stopping Power: Beyond the Hyperbole of Cartridge Advocacy

Handgun Bullet Stopping Power: Beyond the Hyperbole of Cartridge Advocacy Review

For the law enforcement officer and the civilian who may be in a situation that requires the use of a handgun to stop a lethal threat action, it is important that the person differentiates between the crass, glib and self-serving advertisements of ammunition vendors and the reality of how, what and why effective stopping power occurs.

Factors to consider are the physiological response, the psychological response, the time frame parameter and bullet efficacy. Of these four factors, only bullet efficacy can be somewhat controlled by the person, this only by understanding how and to what extent the bullet contributes to the degree of stopping power obtained.

A number of concepts / formulae have been included so as to permit the reader to consider their merits and whether or not they are consistent with the reality of biology, physics and other relevant sciences.

Finally the material in this book is intended to permit those persons to instruct, teach or make decisions regarding the selection of a service handgun/cartridge combination that will help to provide the means to prevail in a lethal threat confrontation.

About the Author:
Mr. Bredsten retired from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center/Firearms Division (FLETC/FAD). With FLETC/FAD he performed duties as a firearms instructor and he also taught ballistics to the FLETC/FAD staff and to students in the Law Enforcement Rifle Training Program and in the Precision Rifle (Sniper) and Observer Program. Subjects covered included the ballistic coefficient, barrel time, the coefficient of reduction (form), Greenhill formula (rate of rifling twist), firearm recoil, bullet time-of-flight, bullet drop, bullet midrange, wind deflection, bullet penetration potential and bullet terminal (wounding) efficacy.
Since retiring he has provided ballistics consultation service for the FLETC/FAD, the Transportation Security Agency, the Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department and Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Mr. Bredsten attended and completed various classes/courses relating to firearms (e.g., H&K MP5, Steyr Aug, Uzi, Tactical Speed Shooting and advanced shotgun) and ballistics (e.g., the first and second International Wound Ballistics Conferences, a Federal Law Enforcement Ammunition and Ballistics Seminar and Oehler’s Ballistic Instrumentation). Mr. Bredsten has an AA degree from Chaffey Jr. College and a BA degree from Sacramento State College and currently resides in Georgia.

Official Soviet 7.62mm Handgun Manual

Official Soviet 7.62mm Handgun Manual Review

This Soviet military manual, now available in English for the first time, covers instructions for use and maintenance of two sidearms, the Nagant 7.62mm revolver, used by the Russian tsarist armed forces and later the Soviet armed forces, and the Tokarev 7.62mm semiauto pistol, which replaced the Nagant.

Great Combat Handguns: A Guide to Using, Collecting and Training With Handguns

Great Combat Handguns: A Guide to Using, Collecting and Training With Handguns Review

Over 50 of the best personal handguns available worldwide are selected, assessed and tested. As well as full technical data and handling characteristics each handgun has photographic and line artwork illustrations - chapters also include advice on choice of ammunition, the various carrying methods, choosing a weapon for specific uses as well as the expanded firearm directory.

Handguns Afield

Handguns Afield Review

When Handguns Afield was first published in 1961, hunting with a handgun was in its infancy. Surely settlers and cowboys of the 19th century would have used a handgun on wild game from time to time to fill the campfire stewpot, but as far as using a handgun for hunting as a pastime, this sport was not yet widely recognized. Jeff Cooper expertly summarizes the various aspects of hunting with handguns in the few dozen pages of this volume. Handguns, cartridges, holsters and shooting small and large game are all thoroughly described and explained here. If the average handgun shooter follows the advice in this book - most of which is still relevant today - he will be well prepared to hunt game with a pistol.