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About Jeff Cooper

Jeff Cooper was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1920. He was educated at Stanford University and took his advanced degree from the University of California. He was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1941 and served throughout World War II in the Pacific, achieving the rank of Major. Recalled to active duty for the Korean War, he moved up one rank to Lieutenant Colonel before leaving the service.

Cooper became a shottist at the age of eleven. In 1958 he originated the sport of practical pistol competition. From this activity he formulated the Modern Technique of the Pistol, now generally observed throughout the world. For the next thirty years he was active in teaching the new method throughout the Western World.

In 1976 Jeff Cooper founded the International Practical Shooting Confederation. In 1977 he founded the American Pistol Institute at Gunsite in Arizona, where he lived until his death in 2006.

He served as editor-at-large of Guns and Ammo magazine, for which he wrote a monthly column. After having served many years as a director of the National Rifle Association of America, he was elected to the Executive Council.

Jeff Cooper spent a long and active life reading, shooting, hunting, fighting and teaching. Internationally respected as the "Gunner's Guru," Jeff Cooper is a philosopher, moralist, and political commentator -- a true modern Renaissance man. It is to the benefit of his many readers that he developed the passion at an early age to write it all down.

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Principles of Personal Defense

by Jeff Cooper , Paul Kirchner , Louis Awerbuck

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To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth Oct 01, 1988

by Jeff Cooper

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The Art of the Rifle

by Jeff Cooper

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To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth

by Jeff Cooper , Paul Kirchner , Barrett Tillmann , Mark Moritz

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Another Country

by Jeff Cooper , Paul Kirchner

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Gargantuan Gunsite Gossip 3

by Jeff Cooper , Lindy Wisdom , Paul Kirchner , Janelle Cooper , Amy Heath Lovato

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Cooper on Handguns: Complete Guidebook to Handguns

by Jeff Cooper

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Fighting Handguns: History, Adventure And Romance Of Handguns From The Muzzle Loader To Modern Magnums

by Jeff Cooper , Kenneth M. Bayless

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FireWorks

by Jeff Cooper , Lindy Wisdom , Fred Lucas

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Gargantuan Gunsite Gossip 3 by Jeff Cooper (2010-11-25)

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The Art of the Rifle, Special Color Edition

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C Stories

by Jeff Cooper , Paul Kirchner

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