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    Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort: Jeff Cooper’s color-code system give you the edge in defensive handgun shooting accuracy & technique. Learn essential handgun training drills, tips & safety.
    Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort: Jeff Cooper’s color-code system give you the edge in defensive handgun shooting accuracy & technique. Learn essential handgun training drills, tips & safety.
    Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort: Jeff Cooper’s color-code system give you the edge in defensive handgun shooting accuracy & technique. Learn essential handgun training drills, tips & safety.
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    Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort: Jeff Cooper’s color-code system give you the edge in defensive handgun shooting accuracy & technique. Learn essential handgun training drills, tips & safety.

    By David Fessenden

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    In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches Jeff Cooper's universal rules of firearm safety, color code of mental awareness, modern techniques for the defensive pistol and self-defense principles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440234361
    Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort: Jeff Cooper’s color-code system give you the edge in defensive handgun shooting accuracy & technique. Learn essential handgun training drills, tips & safety.

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      Gun Digest's Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns eShort - David Fessenden

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      Principles of Jeff Cooper Defensive Handguns

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      Col. Jeff Cooper, here shown in a Gun Digest article from 1971, developed many of the principles of defensive guncraft.

      We have examined and established the history of and the definition of the art of defensive guncraft. Now, let’s explore in more detail the principles or influences that help us to reinforce and fortify the tenets of this art. They bolster and energize our beliefs and guide us on our journey toward a mastery of the handgun. They will aid us in understanding and reaching our goal of attaining the mindset we call the Comfort of Skill at Arms. (I will discuss the Comfort of Skill at Arms in detail later.) Indeed, you must have a total mastery of these factors before you learn all the firearms skills necessary to competently and safely handle your firearm. View them as the foundation upon which you construct your skill level, layer by layer up this ladder of firearms proficiency. These principles are as

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