{"id":14228,"date":"2017-02-16T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:05:09","slug":"disparaging-the-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/disparaging-the-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Disparaging the Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DC-5\"<\/p>\n

Bashing Jeff Cooper on social media or blogs seems to be the in thing<\/em> to do now days. Mostly perpetuated by millennial shooters, Granny Hawkins would file these vain attempts to get attention under www.doodlysquat.com\u00a0\u00a0(If you don\u2019t know who Granny Hawkins is, you\u2019re a millennial for sure.)<\/a> This bashing runs the gamut of proclamations that the Weaver stance is outdated, that the Modern Technique of the Pistol has been superseded, and even includes declarations\u00a0that anyone who reads or remotely admires Jeff Cooper is a grey haired, dust covered, lunatic who\u2019s not advanced into the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

\"DC-2\"I get it, I really do. Most millennial gun owners received their firearms training on television watching Hollywood pretenders act like operators, or on the web watching other tenderfoots play with their pistols. Or, alternately, they\u2019ve taken a class from some tactard trainer who developed his own doctrine in his mom\u2019s basement, while waiting for his on-lines friends to join in on a Call of Duty game.<\/p>\n

Then there are the gamers. The competitive shooters who negotiate courses of fire where they know where they will always shoot from, how many targets there will be, where they will conduct a reload, and the\u00a0time they have to beat. All of this by the way happens in an environment where the targets will not shoot back, try to take their gun, or beat the ever-loving daylights out of them while they\u2019re trying to drop the slide on their pistol using their thumb.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t misconstrue this as a knock at competitive shooters. I know several who are masters with a handgun. Shooters like Dianna Liedorff Muller and Mark Hanish. I have about as much chance outshooting them on the range as I do receiving a tantalizing invitation from Brittany Spears. I know this because I’ve tried.<\/em> Here’s the thing; competitive shooting\u00a0is not the same as fighting with a pistol in your hand. Yeah, I know, front sight \u2013 press. But let’s be very clear about something, fighting with a handgun is not just about shooting. If you think it is, you’re likely a product of paragraph two.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the other thing, and I\u2019m paraphrasing Robbie Barrkman (ROBAR<\/a>) here, just about everything related to handguns today, can directly be traced to Jeff Cooper. Cooper started the defensive handgun movement that continues today, and his 1972 book, The Principles of Personal Defense<\/a>, is still<\/em> the best resource on that topic.\u00a0Oh, and for you competition shooters out there, would you happen to know who was the founding president of IPSC? For most, I doubt it. Were it not for Jeff Cooper, you would not have a game to play and we still might be shooting PPC.<\/p>\n

What those of you who are not all that long out of diapers may not realize is that Cooper founded the way of life you like to think you’re living. At a time when this country needed it, he conveyed a message that struck at the heart of patriots and folks of good character. The sermons he delivered in print and in lecture shaped the future of firearms in America.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you might have what you think is a better way and, hell, it might even be a better way \u2013 it might even be Timney trigger<\/a> good. Regardless,\u00a0and I’d\u00a0bet my last can of Skoal on this, the last thing you or anyone else wants to do is get in a fight, in a diverse, dusky, chaotic environment, with a\u00a0well-trained practitioner in the Modern Technique of the Pistol.<\/p>\n

As a final thought, if your technique, tool, or opinion is so high-speed, low-drag, and better than owl-shit on a butter sandwich, there\u2019s no need to belittle the work or opinions of others while you espouse its virtues. Cream has a way of rising to the top; tell your story with the respect due those whose shoulders you’re standing on. If your thing<\/em> makes sense, shooters will flock to you like crows to a dead opossum. And, while it might not sound like it, that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

\"DC-1\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bashing Jeff Cooper on social media or blogs seems to be the in thing to do now days. Mostly perpetuated by millennial shooters, Granny Hawkins would file these vain attempts to get attention under www.doodlysquat.com\u00a0\u00a0(If you don\u2019t know who Granny Hawkins is, you\u2019re a millennial for sure.) This bashing runs the gamut of proclamations that the Weaver stance is outdated, that the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509,2579,2500],"tags":[93,94,62,2738,2166,681],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-editorial","category-shooting","tag-competition-shooting","tag-defensive-handgun-training","tag-jeff-cooper","tag-modern-technique-of-the-pistol","tag-timney-trigger","tag-weaver-stance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3Hu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11465,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/the-weaver-explained\/","url_meta":{"origin":14228,"position":0},"title":"The Weaver – Explained","author":"gunwriter","date":"March 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In this new high-tech world that seems to be driven by the Internet, we continually see so-called gun fight commandos condemning the Weaver stance. 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