Book Review: Practical Shooting Training (Stoeger & Park, 2021)

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Karl Rehn did a good book review of Stoeger's latest:

Book Review: Practical Shooting Training (Stoeger & Park, 2021)

I'm reading the book and its great so far. The focus is competitive shooting, but even for defensive shooting I've already benefited from Stoeger's advice. His methods are solid and based on his exceptional experience. However the methods lean towards the traditional. Stoeger supports the use of SIRT, airguns, and airsoft, but provides little context in their use. He doesn't mention the value of MantisX, silencers, or video simulators.

Looking forward to reading the rest of the book

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Interestingly enough when shooting on the move Stoeger recommends "shooting target focused and not sight focused."

target focused shooting = point shooting

Benjamin Thomas Stoeger is an American competition shooter and firearms instructor who started competing actively in 2005.[1] He placed first in the 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot, second behind Bob Vogel in the 2011 IPSC Handgun World Shoot, and placed third in the 2014 IPSC Handgun World Shoot[2] behind Eric Grauffel and Simon "JJ" Racaza. He is also three time IPSC US Handgun Production Champion (2012, 2013 and 2015), eight time USPSA Handgun Production Champion (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019).

Mix of sighted and target focused shooting, isosceles position... Looks like COL Applegate finally won.

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This passage alone is worth the price of the book:

When there is movement involved, be it you are moving or the target moving, it is necessary to shoot with
your vision focused on the target. This is the most missed element of shooting on the move and it cannot
be repeated often enough. If you shoot focused on your front sight or dot, you will tend to "drag" hits in
the same direction that you are moving. When you are focused on the sights, it becomes exceedingly
difficult to "track" the target. When there is movement involved, you do need to continually adjust your
aim. This adjustment happens nearly automatically when you focus on the target.

Read it. Re-read it. Let it sink in.

After reviewing 25,000 videos of gunfights, John Correia notes that people move all the time in actual fights. The lack of target focused shooting is a major deficiency in a lot of firearms training.