by Devereaux Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:40 pm
sthwestvictoria wrote:Definately the Elmer Keith book is a worth a read.
Two police/patrol officer survival guides are very interesting - Street Survival 1980 and No Second Place Winner. I am having a look at these now. Street Survival is very interesting in terms of the vignettes of officer involved shootings, even for the non-officer like myself. The Fighting Handgun - an illustrated history from flintlocks to modern looks interesting as well.
I have had
Street Survival since some time in I believe the 80's. It is a great book for cops, but most don't read it. It talks about cop tactics, which are different from military tactics. If you have found a copy, I would suggest you hang onto it. I also have the sequal to it, tho the name escapes me. But it was a further discussion of the concepts in
SS.
I have a copy of
No Second Place Winner too. THE take-away line was - when you are entering a place where you think you might get into a gunfight, draw your weapon. No one can beat you to the draw then.
I have both hard and electronic copies of Grossman's
On Killing. He has released a newer version wherein he addresses some of the criticisms of his original work. Mostly, there has been criticism of SLA Marshall's statistics about shooters in WWII. You can get a kindle version of the newer work from Amazon; don't know if this is the same.
All of these are worth reading if you are a shooting enthusiast, and especially if you are into SD. Particularly Grossman, to understand some of the psychological drives, and Street Survival to grasp some tactics.
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