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| Snubby Revolver: The ECQ, Backup, and Concealed Carry Standard | 
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| Author: Ed Lovette
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 664004
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1581603827
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9781581603828
ASIN: 1581603827
Publication Date: January 2003
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Condition: "Revised and Updated" Edition (2007) NEW from the Publisher! APO/FPO Orders Welcome. Order from a VETERAN-OWNED Bookseller. Every order shipped with Delivery Confirmation, Please E-Mail us directly with any shipping questions.
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Product Description
At a time when the semiauto pistol has become the issue handgun for our police and military and the handgun of choice for a lot of citizens, the snubby holds its own. It is available in a wider range of calibers, weights and finishes than at any time in its history. It continues to serve as a dependable backup weapon for the police officer, and it is a highly popular choice with the legally armed citizen. In this book, former CIA operative and longtime Combat Handguns columnist Ed Lovette pays homage to the short-barreled revolver, or snubby, holding it up as the timeless standard in concealed carry, backup and extreme close quarters (ECQ) defensive weapons. He also addresses the four most common complaints about the snubby - grip, front sight, trigger and ammo capacity - and presents viable ways to remedy those issues based on his personal experience. Lovette devotes the second half of the book to defensive tactics, running the gamut from basic personal defense to strategic planning for extraordinary situations such as surveillance and carjackings to considerations specific to the use of the pocket revolver. This book is a must for anyone seeking objective, practical insight into the snub-nose revolver's enduring value.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 The Snubby Revolver May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The info in this book outstanding. I have read on and been to a number of classes on the use of revolvers. But the things covered in this book were not covered or received very little attention there. This book is a must have if you use the small ones. When I started this book,I had read over half before I could put it down.
Agreat guide to the snubby! April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a consise and educated argument for the use of the snub in today's world. The new version has more great information and I would highly recommend it, even if you already have the first edition. If you are a true student of handgun self defense, buy this book !!!
great book on snubbies and personal awareness March 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have just finished reading the book. In fact, I've read it twice. I've made my 14 adn 12 year old daughters read it. It not only lays down the basics of a short barrel revolver, but persoanl awareness and survivablity. I'm not a military or active cop. I'm a armed civillian, with more than just the basic training of weapons and tactics.
First of all, the author layed out the book very well. It flowed from subject to subject nicely. Enough "war stories" in to keep the reader interested and to show why a snubbie in this or that situation worked or would have worked better. Not Monday morning quarterbacking, just some good critical thinking.
Second the author lays out, to the reader, what the reader should be looking for in weapon and personal awareness training. And no book is going to replace personal training, be it from big name schools for the local range. The author has gathered several real life examples and gives a great layout of what a regular person can do, if faced with a serious threat. The author does state that alot of the reason these regular folks survived is due to their mindset of wanting to survive. And no amount of training and class time is going to help you there. And during research, the author found no "prfessionally" trained gun fighters or big name instructed victims, just plain old folks who read, watched, or was shown how to work the revolver or weapon. And, its a snubbie, so there isn't alot of "cool" drills you can do with it. The author suggest upclose to contact range shooting and unarmed protection practice. Sorry if this makes the range drill masters mad and wanting more. Simple is , simple does.
Third, the author is open minded about the snub nosed revolver and lays out its pluses and minuses. He goes over smaller calibers vs larger ones, 38 vs 357, and 5 shots vs 6 shots. As far as holsters, ammo, and other gunnie stuff, the author touches base and theses and gives the reader other venues to follow if the short list isn't enough. But truefully, its a snubbie, and there isn't much you can do with it except shoot it, carry it in a holster, and clean it. Sometimes I think that is why the snubbie gets shunned by "serious" shooters, not enough add ons.
Even if you don't have a short barrel revolver, you can get your money's worth out of the information on personal awareness and what to do in a carjacking or kidknapping.
Jerry
The snubby March 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good book with lots of anecdotes about the author's time as a CIA paramilitary handgun trainer. The thing about hanguns that a lot of people forget is that if you have to use a handgun for defensive purposes, it will be within 5 feet, and will be over within 3 seconds (on average). Thus, having a gun and getting it into the fight fast is critical, not whether or not you can hit a bullseye at 25 meters, or fire off 17 rounds in a row. Also, the thing most people forget is that during a confrontation, if the bad guy grabs your autopistol, you might not be able to fire it again, because the slide can stick. With a revolver, you don't have to worry about that. If the bad guy gets his hand on your gun, it is much harder to render the gun ineffective.
Despite some flaws, good book overall February 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Some things endure because they do what they do better than anything that can be designed to replace them. And so it is with the short-barreled revolver." So says Ed Lovette on page 15 of THE SNUBBY REVOLVER, and I think he's exactly right.
For most civilian purposes, revolvers, though they may not be as sexy or cool as tricked-out autoloaders, are superior in practical terms. And for concealed carry, it's very hard to beat a good snubby -- it's simple to use and very reliable; when concealed, its rounded, irregular outline generally doesn't 'print' through clothing as much as an auto; and, to me one of the best advantages over an automatic is that you can leave a revolver fully loaded indefinitely and not worry about any spring fatigue (which can be a problem with autopistol magazines, no matter how high their quality, if you leave em loaded long enough.) For all those reasons, I'm a snubby sixgun fan and was delighted to find a book devoted to them. I found a lot of good information and pointers here (I really liked the stuff on knives as supplements to the snubby), and overall the book was an enjoyable, fast read. The author seems to know his stuff, with a background that includes Special Forces, law enforcement, and the CIA.
All that said, I'll agree with some of the criticisms of this book: while the parts focused on snubbies were good, there was a lot of space devoted to 'defensive mindset' matters, which, while certainly important, I thought would've been more appropriate in another book. (Ed Lovette even tells you that he co-authored a book on that very subject; why he doesn't just refer you to that, rather than reprinting chunks of it in this book, is beyond me.) And I'll agree that sometimes there are too many short anecdotes, some of which are kind of served up a la carte without a lot of analysis and explanation of their point.
But I still think this is a worthwhile book for anyone who carries a concealed weapon or is considering doing so. And I for one appreciated the fact that the author did NOT fill up the book with a bunch of ballistics charts and tables and tiresome lists of makes, models, and specs, as so many 'gunwriters' seem to love doing. I'll take practical real-world advice from an experienced person over the theories of armchair ballistics theorists any day.
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