Handgun Training for Personal Protection: How to Choose & Use the Best Sights, Lights, Lasers & Ammunition

by Richard Allen Mann

Overview

Handgun Training for Personal Protection is the definitive guide for selecting and training with lights, sights, lasers and ammunition for the modern defensive handgun.

Author Richard Mann helps you understand how to properly outfit a handgun to optimize its defensive potential. Perhaps even more importantly, he describes how to train with this optimized handgun in order to have the best chance of survival in a lethal encounter.

Handgun Training for Personal Protection will help you:

• Understand how lasers, lights and sights are valuable in a defensive situation.
• Learn techniques for training with lasers, lights and sights that develop and reinforce effective use of the handgun in a defensive situation.
• Learn how lasers, lights, sights and ammunition work.
• Learn about available equipment options.

This volume is the essential laser, light and ammunition defensive handgun training manual for anyone who owns a handgun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440234644
Publisher:	Gun Digest Media
Publication date:	04/22/2013
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	454,153
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

A former police officer and serviceman with the US Army, Richard A. Mann is one of the most well-respected firearms authorities writing on the subject today. He serves as contributing editor for several magazines, including NRA's American Rifleman and Shooting Illustrated, Varmint Hunter, and Combat Handgunner, and is the editor for Gun Digest's Cartridges of the World 13th Edition.

Table of Contents

Dedication 3

Acknowledgements 4

Introduction 6

The Rules 9

Foreword 10

Part 1 The Foundation

Chapter 1 The Secret 11

Chapter 2 Mindset 19

Chapter 3 The Modern Technique 24

Part 2 Modern Accessories

Chapter 4 Handgun Sights 46

Chapter 5 Express Sights 58

Chapter 6 Lasers in General 68

Chapter 7 How Lasers Work 79

Chapter 8 The Laser's Edge 93

Chapter 9 Red Dot Sights 107

Chapter 10 Why Light Matters 114

Chapter 11 Handheld Lights 120

Chapter 12 Weapon-Mounted Lights 130

Chapter 13 Calibers & Ammunition 136

Part 3 Training & Evaluation

Chapter 14 Introduction to Training 156

Chapter 15 Dry-Fire Practice 166

Chapter 16 Live-Fire Practice 180

Chapter 17 Evaluation Exercises 202

Chapter 18 Other Stuff 211

Chapter 19 Opinion 215

Appendix A The Rules 226

Appendix B Mixing Ordnance Gelatin 235

Appendix C Evaluation Drills Scoresheet 239