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Protect Yourself With Your Snubnose Revolver Paperback – January 14, 2017

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Do you have a snubnose revolver? Do you want to know how to use it to defend your life?

If you — or someone you love — owns a snubnose revolver for personal or home defense, this is the book you need!

Protect Yourself With Your Snubnose Revolver teaches you the essential shooting skills to defend yourself and your loved ones from harm. The snubnose revolver isn’t out of date, and it is still a formidable personal defense tool. This book shows you the why and the how of self defense with the snubby!

As a self defense and shooting instructor, I’ve taken my experience with the snubnose revolver and distilled it into this easy-to-read book full of tips, resources, and specific instructions to help you master the quintessential defensive handgun.

Unique to this book is a detailed practice regimen of specific exercises for learning the snubnose. They give you the game plan to develop and maintain your snubby shooting skills! Even if you’re just considering buying your first snubnose revolver, this book will be a valuable reference.

In this book you’ll find:

Part 1: Safety First!
The Universal Safety Rules
Safe and Ready Storage

Part 2: The Snubnose Revolver
Virtues and Vices of the Snubby
Manual of Arms
Defensive Ammunition for the Snubnose

Part 3: Defensive Shooting Concepts
The Goal of Defensive Shooting
Context: the Least Understood Word in Self Defense
Expecting the Unexpected: Possible, Plausible, and Likely
Being Efficient
Counter-Ambush Methodology
Making Decisions
Consolidating Your Skills
Accuracy and Precision
Balance of Speed and Precision

Part 4: Defensive Shooting Skills
Natural Threat Reactions
Ready Position
Grasp
Stance
Extension
Trigger Control
Unsighted Fire
Using the Sights
Reloading
Drawing & Reholstering

Part 5: Skill-Building Exercises
A Quick Note About Targets
Range Safety and Etiquette
Grasp Pressure Exercise
Extend-Touch-Fire Exercise
One At A Time Exercise
Multiple Shots Exercise
Draw From Holster Exercise
Sighted Fire Exercise
BSP (Balance of Speed & Precision) Exercise
One Hand Defense Exercise
Moving Point of Aim Exercise
Implausible Distance Exercise
The importance of a training partner
Special Considerations for Restricted Ranges
Dry Practice

Part 6: Putting Your Snubby to Work
Modifying for Better Function
Concealed Carry
Holsters and Carry Methods
Drawing From Concealment
Home Defense

You won’t find a more comprehensive guide to using the snubby for the job it was designed: self defense! No matter what the brand or caliber of your snubnose revolver, Protect Yourself With Your Snubnose Revolver will help you learn how to use it efficiently and effectively.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (January 14, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1520384130
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1520384139
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches

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Grant Cunningham is a renowned author and teacher specializing in personal security and defensive shooting topics. His emphasis is on preparing ordinary citizens to efficiently deal with extraordinary circumstances, teaching "real skills, for real people, living real lives."

In addition to his critically acclaimed books, Grant's articles on shooting and self defense have been published in a number of popular magazines and on websites like the Personal Defense Network. Grant has made a DVD on revolver shooting for the NRA's Personal Firearms Defense series, and is a founding member of the Association of Defensive Shooting Instructors, the nationwide professional membership organization for those who teach the use of firearms for self defense.

Known for his thorough, factual, yet highly engaging instructional style, Grant teaches frequently at locations around the U.S. You can find out more about Grant, his courses, and his available class dates through his websites: www.personalsecurity.us and www.grantcunningham.com.

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Customers find the book provides good information on fundamental revolver practice. It is easy for them to understand and read, written in a straightforward manner. The book offers basic information for novice shooters and is recommended for anyone interested in self-defense. They appreciate the simple yet effective exercises and consider revolvers reliable and concealable tools for self-defense.

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Customers find the book provides good information on revolver practice. It offers basic information for beginners and solid pointers for experienced shooters. The author has a thorough understanding of the subject matter and provides clear explanations.

"...provides common sense, totally realistic and practical guidance on handgun handling in a stress-filled life threatening situation: handle the weapon..." Read more

"...PROTECT YOURSELF, and it is true that there is a great deal of overlap in the basics...." Read more

"A very well written, and comprehensive book, on the current theoretical dogma that exists among the so-called combat handgunners, concerning the use..." Read more

"...The book is well-organized and easy to read. I believe this book belongs in every "pistolero's" library...." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to understand and read. It's written in a straightforward manner that is refreshing. They appreciate the simple and small size of the revolvers. The book provides well-explained procedures for holster draw, aiming, shooting, and reloading. Readers appreciate the logical progression of instructional steps to using the revolver safely.

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"A very well written, and comprehensive book, on the current theoretical dogma that exists among the so-called combat handgunners, concerning the use..." Read more

"...I think his reasoning is excellent. Revolvers are safe, easy to use, intuitive and even people in your family who really don't have much interest in..." Read more

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Customers find the book helpful for self-defense. It provides information about the strengths and weaknesses of a revolver. They describe it as an essential guide for snub-nose revolver owners, with realistic concealed weapons information applicable to auto or revolver. Overall, readers say it's a great book that helps protect oneself and loved ones.

"...as well as content of STOPPING THE SCHOOL SHOOTING: DEFENSIVE REVOLVER FOR TEACHERS, a POD book (as this one apparently is) that was offered briefly..." Read more

"...I think his reasoning is excellent. Revolvers are safe, easy to use, intuitive and even people in your family who really don't have much interest in..." Read more

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"...Use this book to master your snubby, and you'll be well positioned to protect yourself and your loved ones with just about anything. Buy it!" Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and well-organized. They appreciate the good information and practical tips for carrying handguns. The author provides reliable, simple-to-use advice.

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"...They are very concealable. They are very reliable. They are simple to operate...." Read more

"...As I mentioned, this is a well put together book with good information that would benefit anyone reading it." Read more

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Customers find the book refreshing and interesting. They appreciate the straightforward approach and effective exercises to improve their snubnose. The exercises are simple but effective.

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Customers like the reliability of revolvers. They mention that revolvers are simple and reliable, with strengths and weaknesses.

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G L Nelson
Excellent realistic concealed weapons info applicable to auto or revolver
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019
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Grant Cunningham provides common sense, totally realistic and practical guidance on handgun handling in a stress-filled life threatening situation: handle the weapon from the natural fight-or-flight postiion your body will assume when threatened. Forget arguing over "Isoceles or Weaver" stance, because both are equally useless when your body naturally assumes the fight-or-flight-stance when you are facing a life-or-death moment confronted by a predator who will kill you the split second you give him the opening.

For new concealed weapons permit holders, I HIGHLY recommend your first gun be a small-frame 5-shot 38/357 revovler, firing 38 Special +P ammo.
*The primary reason is that when you can competently handle and fire that small-frame 38, you will be able to handle ANY handgun with competence and accuracy. The small-frame double-action revolver will quickly reveal the weakenesses in an individual's pistol shooting capability. I will say this bluntly and to the point: if YOU cannot accurately and effectively fire a small frame 38 revolver, then YOU are not a competent pistol shooter because YOU have major weaknesses in your pistol shooting techniques that need to be addressed.
*The secondary reason for the small-frame 38 revovler, is that often the small-frame 38 is the only serious-caliber, reliable weapon that will be concealable in a light-clothing situation. This is why so many small-frame 38's are STILL carried in the day of the polymer-framed auto-pistol.

The small-framed 38 revolver is a timeless design, that remains practical, capable, effective, and incredibly reliable, even in the 21st Century. Grant Cunningham has literally written the book on practical use of this timeless handgun. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED is an understatement.

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Why this is the best book about snubbies!
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018
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Well, not because of all the exclamation points--which are annoying but don't lessen the value of the content.
Aside from Ed Lovette's dated SNUBBY REVOLVER (2002), is there another book that focuses on this type of firearm? Cunningham seems to be deliberately avoiding the cloak-and-dagger context of the earlier book, as he did in GUN DIGEST BOOK OF THE REVOLVER (2011). I reread the latter before reading PROTECT YOURSELF, and it is true that there is a great deal of overlap in the basics. To write otherwise and leave out the basics, however, would leave a skinny book but more importantly would ignore those who really are starting out with a snubby. And given the concealed-carry craze, Cunningham made the right choice.
If Cunningham has a theory of shooting it is matching the necessity of shooting with physiological reactions under stress.Thus rather than emphasizing "true tales of the Old West" (or anywhere else) he talks about the nervous system of the eye or the degradation of dexterity. Cunningham insists that these deficiencies cannot be eliminated by practice--instead, what is practiced must take account of mental and physical reactions that will only arise under the stress of an actual attack--what Cunningham describes as an "ambush."
But the book is still technical (rather than tactical). It might be nice to know (or to hear Cunningham's thoughts about) whether that ambush is perpetrated with a firearm, a knife, or bare hands. The human target is almost entirely absent from this book.
Perhaps it is understandable that gun writers are reluctant to acknowledge other books. This one acknowledges websites, which is perhaps appropriate with Cunningham's self-proclaimed iconoclasm (regarding, for instance, using sights or leaving your home-defense gun unloaded). But there is much here that reminds me in terminology as well as content of STOPPING THE SCHOOL SHOOTING: DEFENSIVE REVOLVER FOR TEACHERS, a POD book (as this one apparently is) that was offered briefly a few years ago.And what about those earlier revolver books like Lovette's (or Jordan's or McGivern's)? Is nothing to be learned from those who wrote about the revolver when the revolver was state-of-the-art? Perhaps the front-sight-focus was an irrelevant fad: was the rest of it? is target shooting and plinking really so alien to personal defense?
By the way, does anyone hold a revolver in line with his nose--isn't it in line with his dominant eye? Reminds me of that Cyclops guy in KRULL.
Something has to be said about the evolution of Cunningham's hair. In a world where so many self-defense "experts" are tactically (i.e, artificially) hairless, it's refreshing to see a gunwriter who is comfortable with both short and long hair.
PROTECT YOURSELF WITH YOUR SNUBNOSE REVOLVER is still the best book on the short barrelled revolver. I would like to see a Michael de Bethencourt book as well.

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Current theories on the use of the snubnose revolver.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2017
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A very well written, and comprehensive book, on the current theoretical dogma that exists among the so-called combat handgunners, concerning the use of the handgun in combat, with an emphasis on the snubnose revolver.
I am old. I have been there, done that. I have seen the Elephant. The snubnose was designed for combat, up close, and personal, not just for the purpose of concealment. The book misses that point, and the why, for the many reasons that a short barrel, is truly useful in combat, entirely.
Playing games, and shooting stationary paper targets are all good, and well, but they are night from day different, from actual life, and death combat. Sykes, Fairbairn, and especially Applegate, got it right, long ago, in the Real World. Their knowledge, and experience will give you a very real, definite edge, that might possibly help keep you, and those you love, and protect, alive to see another day.

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Excellent for Beginners - Common Senese and Practical
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2017
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This book is 5 stars if you are new to self defense shooting and handguns in general. I like Grant Cunningham because he is realistic and down to earth. This book isn't filled with a lot of "tactical" stuff. its written for people who have a normal life, go to work every day, and feel they need a firearm for protection. Contrary to most current gun writers, Grant likes revolvers for personal protection. I think his reasoning is excellent. Revolvers are safe, easy to use, intuitive and even people in your family who really don't have much interest in guns will be able to use them effectively with minimum training and practice.

If you have some experience with handguns and already have your own opinions as to gun type, caliber, etc, then this book will seem overly simple to you and you will probably not learn much new stuff. But if you need to know about handguns to defend your family and don't have a lot of experience this book is just about the best you can get.

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niente di specifico, le indicazioni varrebbero per qualunque arma da fuoco

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