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Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals
Brian Enos's Practical Shooting, Beyond Fundamentals - often considered the competitive shooters bible - includes in-depth coverage of the technical and mental aspects of training and competition, and will offer new insights as you continue to improve.
"There is only one person in the world who I would allow to talk to my students, and that is Brian Enos."
- Rob Leatham, 15+ time National & World IPSC Champion.
This isn't just another "how to fire a gun" book. This one talks about shooting....
The keys to consistent, high-speed shooting are within you right now. This book will show you ways to bring them out. Through Brian's advice, you'll learn how to recognize and break down the barriers that are limiting your performance—you may begin to look at shooting in an entirely different way. You'll learn to pressure-proof your match performance, how different types of shooting require different focal points, and you'll see how to develop an attitude that will let you reach beyond what you thought was your potential.
You'll find a comprehensive set of exercises that will develop and sharpen your skills. You'll see how it's possible to drive the gun to wherever your eye can look. You'll discover that everything you need to know about your technique is told by the gun, if you know how to listen to it. And all the challenges and advanced techniques of practical shooting are covered too: prone, barricade, single-hand shooting, multiple targets, reloading, shooting on the move, and much more. You'll also get inside tips on IPSC strategies, steel shooting, shootoff tactics, Bianchi, and more.
Chapters include:
- Awareness & Focus
- Tools of Shooting
- Creative Shooting
- Specific Challenges
- Competition
- Development
- Shooting Tools
- Revolver Shooting
- Group Shooting
The Author
Brian Enos is a Master Champion, two-time Bianchi Cup winner, and has placed in the top-5 at every major practical shooting event, including two second-place finishes at the Steel Challenge and the IPSC Nationals. He is also a certified Combat Master.
"There is only one person in the world who I would allow to talk to my students, and that is Brian Enos."
- Rob Leatham, 15+ time National & World IPSC Champion.
This isn't just another "how to fire a gun" book. This one talks about shooting....
The keys to consistent, high-speed shooting are within you right now. This book will show you ways to bring them out. Through Brian's advice, you'll learn how to recognize and break down the barriers that are limiting your performance—you may begin to look at shooting in an entirely different way. You'll learn to pressure-proof your match performance, how different types of shooting require different focal points, and you'll see how to develop an attitude that will let you reach beyond what you thought was your potential.
You'll find a comprehensive set of exercises that will develop and sharpen your skills. You'll see how it's possible to drive the gun to wherever your eye can look. You'll discover that everything you need to know about your technique is told by the gun, if you know how to listen to it. And all the challenges and advanced techniques of practical shooting are covered too: prone, barricade, single-hand shooting, multiple targets, reloading, shooting on the move, and much more. You'll also get inside tips on IPSC strategies, steel shooting, shootoff tactics, Bianchi, and more.
Chapters include:
- Awareness & Focus
- Tools of Shooting
- Creative Shooting
- Specific Challenges
- Competition
- Development
- Shooting Tools
- Revolver Shooting
- Group Shooting
The Author
Brian Enos is a Master Champion, two-time Bianchi Cup winner, and has placed in the top-5 at every major practical shooting event, including two second-place finishes at the Steel Challenge and the IPSC Nationals. He is also a certified Combat Master.
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208 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1990
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May 6, 2014
Obviously gotta give it four stars, Brian Enos breaks down the physical aspects of shooting in a book that won't just help you boost your scores if you're a competitor, but has plenty of hints for beginning shooters. Loved it!
November 27, 2019
An excellent book that addresses information that is timeless.
February 4, 2017
Do you want to learn the basics of pistol marksmanship? If yes, this book is not for you.
Do you shoot smallbore, hi power, or bullseye and want to get better? This is not for you.
Do you shoot uspsa, ipsc, steel challenge or knock down steel and want to shoot faster better? If yes then this may be an awesome book for you.
The book is called beyond the fundamentals, and it is all about techniques beyond fundamental basic marksmanship with a pistol geared towards the skill set used in uspsa. However for uspsa, it is very much the fundamental basics.
I've read this repeatedly and it served me very well going from D class to B class. It kind of ran out of steam on the way to A class and while the skills are still relevant there isn't much help to be found for getting out of A class to master class. That requires focusing on much more specific and technical skill issues.
Do you shoot smallbore, hi power, or bullseye and want to get better? This is not for you.
Do you shoot uspsa, ipsc, steel challenge or knock down steel and want to shoot faster better? If yes then this may be an awesome book for you.
The book is called beyond the fundamentals, and it is all about techniques beyond fundamental basic marksmanship with a pistol geared towards the skill set used in uspsa. However for uspsa, it is very much the fundamental basics.
I've read this repeatedly and it served me very well going from D class to B class. It kind of ran out of steam on the way to A class and while the skills are still relevant there isn't much help to be found for getting out of A class to master class. That requires focusing on much more specific and technical skill issues.
January 29, 2014
Must read for anyone wanting to do well in competitive shooting. Probably picked it up before I was ready to read it, but as I spent more time behind the trigger, the concepts presented in the book started to make sense. I try to reread it annually.
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February 20, 2024Competition-oriented. Listed on The Cornered Cat's good books and the Active Response Training's recommended reading .
February 10, 2014
Great book on competition shooting!
December 21, 2014
Giving up. Way too '60s hippy for me. Should be called The Zen of Shooting. By page 41, it was still nothing about actual shooting. Ooohmmmmmmmmmmm.
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