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| SHOOTING TO LIVE (2007 Reprint) | 
 enlarge | Author: W.e Fairbairn & E.a Sykes
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2212312
Media: Paperback
ASIN: B000RZJRIY
Publication Date: 2007
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Product Description
One of the most influential combat shooting books ever published, Shooting to Live is the product of Capt. W.E. Fairbairn's and Capt. E.A. Sykes practical experience with the handgun from their many close-encounters gunfights while working for the Shanghai Municipal Police in the 1930's. Hundreds of actual incidents provided the basis for this first true instruction manual of life-or-death shootouts with the pistol. In clear, concise terms, the book teaches the concepts, considerations, and applications of combat pistolcraft. A foreword by Rex Applegate explains how Fairbairn and Sykes introduced their groundbreaking methods into American military training circles at the height of World War II.
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IN 1942 IT WAS WAY AHEAD OF IT TIME! April 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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