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February 15, 2013, 03:24 AM | #1 | ||||
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Good books: Train your Brain
Everyone watches videos now. But books are still good. They convey a lot more information than you can get in a video, and in more depth. Plus, you can always set the book down to think deeply about something the author wrote -- something we rarely or never do with information that comes in through the tube.
Here are some I've read or re-read recently, and would recommend.
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Selk's 10-Minute toughness. Enos' Beyond Fundamentals. The Peaceful Warrior is well worth watching. I haven't read the book, but it's likely very good. |
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Just ordered With Winning in Mind. Thanks.
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February 16, 2013, 09:46 PM | #4 |
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Books worth reading....
Skill training & mindset are sometimes over looked for armed citizens or armed professionals(security sworn LE military EP specialists PIs etc).
Owning firearms & knowing how to use them are different issues. In general here are a few non-fiction book titles to aid gun owners/armed professionals; NOTE: some titles or book edition content may have changed or the author names may be wrong. No Heroes(the start & organization of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team/HRT), Cold Zero(about the HRT & how the FBI trains snipers/SWAT tactics), First Seal by Roy Beihm(the US Navy officer who helped train SEALs & UDT ops), No Second Place Winner: Bill Jordan(a top level shooter who served in the US Border Patrol & was a WWII combat veteran), Stressfire & In The Gravest Extreme by Massad F Ayoob, www.massadayoobgroup.com , Rogue Warrior & Red Cell by Richard NMI Marcinko, www.dickmarcinko.com , Dead Clients Dont Pay & The Bodyguard Manual by Leroy Thompson, Delta Force by COL Charles Beckwith(the US Army officer who created the elite SFOD-1/Delta Force), John Plaster's books about the elite spec ops unit; MAC-SOG(Special Operations Group or "Studies & Observations Group"), Robert Boatman's Living With ... series; www.boatmanbooks.com , No Lights No Siren(about the NYPD by a highly decorated officer), On Killing & On Combat by LTC Dave Grossman(a retired US Army officer who researched death-PTSD/killing), One Ranger by J Jackson(a retired Texas Ranger & NRA board member), Inside The Delta Force by CSM Eric Haney(US Army-retired), One Perfect Op by Dennis Chalker(retired US Navy specwar & plank owner of SEAL Team 06), American Sniper by Chris Kyle, KBL by John Weisman, Special Forces by Tom Clancy, Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab(about counter terrorist units & the elite 22nd SAS Regiment), Talk To Me(about hostage-crisis negotiators in the elite ESU; Emergency Services Unit New York City). Other good gun & tactics related books include; Clint Smith, Elmer Keith, Jeff Cooper, John Farnam, John Shaw(Mid-South), Jim Cirello, Lewis Aleback, |
February 16, 2013, 10:11 PM | #5 |
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Because you brought it up, I just ordered:
"Mass Murder in the United States: A History" by Grant Duwe and "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws", Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott Jr.
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February 16, 2013, 10:16 PM | #6 |
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Other good books...
I'd add the gun & knife law guides. Note: some legal guides & books are updated due to new gun-use of force laws.
www.gunlawguide.com the gun & knife guide by David Wong(a lawyer who works with gun/LE issues). |
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Wow, some great additions to my reading list. May need to move to a bigger place. I'm pretty much drowning in books.
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February 18, 2013, 08:51 PM | #8 |
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A few additions
Rob Pincus Combat focus shooting second edition. Just Finished.
Everything By Masad Ayoob. Gun Digest Book of the Revolver Grant Cunningham. Set Of The Sail BN Woodson. The Bible. Dont mean to preach. Anything By Teddy Roosevelt. |
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Also, don't forget the local library is a good source to read when limited funds.
We also just got, "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws". We have checked out very many books from our library.
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No Second Place Winner by Bill Jordan.
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Frank: What I've begun to do to alleviate a similar situation is replace my low-value physical books (particularly paperback literature/scifi) with ebooks.
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My nightstand book? Holy Bible, New King Jamers Version (NKJV)
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February 26, 2013, 06:40 PM | #14 |
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Good books: Train your Brain
A few days and already almost half way through. Awesome book. Thanks pax |
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Quite welcome, guys.
Today on the plane I read another awesome book: The Unthinkable, a book about who survives disasters ... and why. Fascinating insights into denial, delay, and freezing responses to danger. pax |
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Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected by Rory Miller is a book that was really enlightening to me.
My favorite gun writer is Ayoob, and I have much of his stuff. This is a good thread. I will be sure to check some of these other books out. |
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Thanks to pax now, I'm a huge Rory Miller fan. Actually the police officer who took me under his win is named Rory.
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Constantine,
It's pathetic that I'm such a fan-girl of his stuff, but I am. Nice to know I'm not alone. ... well, on the fan- part, not on the -girl bit. pax |
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I am looking for a book that explains such things as double action, single action, striker fired, various types and grains of ammunition and the reasons to choose them. The basic books I have found seem to spend so much of their word space on gun safety that they forget to address the other aspects. I am not denigrating safety, but you can find that everywhere and more of the same is not what I am searching for. I have just ordered "With Winning in Mind" by Lanny Bassham and "The Perfect Shot" by Albert H. League but I don't think the "The Perfect Shot" covers the very elemental information I am looking for.
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Are you telling me the book, "The Unthinkable" is what I need to buy to answer my basic gun and ammo questions? Or are you telling me to read "The Cornered Cat"? I have read many of Kathy's articles including the one on ammo but that does not answer most of the beginner questions I have. But it is a great article and I printed all 19 pages.
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