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| Shooting to Live | 
 enlarge | Authors: Captain William Ewart Fairbairn, Eric Anthony Sykes
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1929466
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1410108309
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9781410108302
ASIN: 1410108309
Publication Date: April 29, 2005
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Product Description
Shooting to Live is the product of Fairbairns 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Best if You Wish to Carry January 6, 2009
This book is the best I've read on how to carry and use a handgun for protection. (At home, lock yourself in your room, dial 911 and use a shotgun!) The material offered is based on the realities of a violent, surprise confrontation, not target shooting and practical handgun competitions. Good pointers on how to drill for instinctive, rapid fire use of the handgun. Also, included are good, general guidelines for setting up a training range for law enforcement and military personnel. Well worth the price!
Fun history for a shooting buff. December 14, 2008
Amazon delivers as always. This is a classic book for shooters. Fun and interesting read if you are a history buff, or interested in the origins of this style that seems to be making a comeback.
 IN 1942 IT WAS WAY AHEAD OF IT TIME! April 30, 2008
3 out of 3 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.
Combat Shooting October 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Overpriced but Interesting look at history August 26, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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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