This book contains the live fire training methods of Ben Stoeger. Drawing on his experience at the top levels of competition and his experience teaching others, he has refined his methodology for years. This book is the culmination of those ideas and experiences and is the most detailed and involved live-fire training manual ever produced for the USPSA/ISPC competitor. Skills and Drills contains a detailed set of drills and concepts to help you take your shooting to the next level, practice tips to help you get the most out of every single session, a section designed to explain how you are doing it wrong and how to do it better, a series of benchmarks to get you to the top level of shooting, advice on how to document your progress, insight on what it takes to train and compete on the super squad, and much more!

Recognize the void in your tactical training Train like you fight Maintain safety at all times Choose targets that force accountability Develop a series of standards Patrick McNamara spent twenty-two years in the United States Army in a myriad of special operations units. When he worked in the premier special missions unit, he became an impeccable marksman, shooting with accurate, lethal results and tactical effectiveness. McNamara has trained tactical applications of shooting to people of all levels of marksmanship, from varsity level soldiers, U.S. Secret Service agents and police officers who work the streets to civilians with little to no time behind the trigger. His military experience quickly taught him that there is more to tactical marksmanship than merely squeezing the trigger. Utilizing his years of experience, McNamara developed a training methodology that is safe, effective and combat relevant and encourages a continuous thought process. This methodology teaches how to maintain safety at all times and choose targets that force accountability, as well as provides courses covering several categories, including individual, collective, on line and standards. TAPS: Tactical Application of Practical Shooting: Recognize the void in your tactical training will increase the confidence and efficiency in your shooting by providing training tips and courses of fire to help you significantly improve your marksmanship. Utilize his tips and techniques and reap the benefits as you shoot.

I have been teaching Practical Shooting for more than a decade. Watching thousands of students fire millions of rounds over the years has taught me quite a lot about shooting. It also taught me how individuals process and obtain an understanding of shooting. I have seen students repeatedly shoot the same patterns over and over again, and I've realized the same drills highlighted the same mistakes. Over time, it has become easy for me to spot these patterns. The difficulty was making the student see and understand what I saw. However, when the student would experience an understanding, they had a breakthrough in their shooting.Over time, I modified drills and created new ones, to highlight the patterns I was seeing so that students would understand what they were doing wrong and comprehend how to fix it. This book is the product of that refinement. It contains a simple set of ideas, techniques, and drills; distilled down to an uncomplicated form. By developing your understanding of the concepts contained in this book, you can achieve your own breakthrough.

The Most Detailed and Specific Training Manual for Practical Shooting! Practical Shooting Training offers a layered approach to training. Instead of dumping out all the information you need for your training and then having you sift through hundreds of pages of drills and training information, this book is structured in a new, easy to use way. There are 4 levels of training with different mixes of drills, goals, and standards. Each level is a self-contained training book on its own and allows every reader to be able to find where they fit in and get to work from that point. The same exercises evolve and change over time as your shooting grows and changes. If you have never fired a round at a match before, you start out at level one. If you are chasing your fourth National title, you go to level four. The structure allows this book to work for a wide audience and will give you plenty of room to grow as you work through the book.

"Dry-Fire Training - For the Practical Pistol Shooter" is an at home training manual designed to complement the live-fire manual "Skills and Drills." This manual gives you a comprehensive set of drills to take your skills to the next level. The drills and associated goal times are tailored for people looking to be pushed to get better. This book has extensive drill commentary, where specific information on the focal points and goals of each individual drill are explained in detail. There is enough information here so you have the ability to act as your own coach. This book is self-contained, but it works best if you are using it in conjunction with "Skills and Drills" or have already taken a class with Ben. This book contains: -A brand new set of "Learning Drills" designed to get your gun handling up to speed -A set of field course focused drills -Extensive drill commentary -Tips on danger areas to watch out for -and much more!

Dry Fire (and live fire) practical shooting training is known to dramatically improve performance. By committing to regular practice you can reach any level you choose, be it Master Grade or even Grand Master. This training journal runs over 150 pages (A5 size) that is easy to carry and take to the range with you. Each section starts with an area for you to write out the drill name, stage start, stage scoring and stage sketch. The following page provides ample space to fill out your results - Date, Division, Dry fire/Live Fire and Time and/or Par. A Famous management thinker, Peter Drucker said, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." You can't know whether you are successful or not unless success is defined and tracked. Without clear objectives, you're stuck in a constant state of guessing. This Journal will help you measure your current level of skill and then improve it.