In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden gives range exercises to condition you for the follow up that happens on the street after a gun fight.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches handgun grip, stance, presentation, sight picture, trigger control, reloading drills and malfunction clearing.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden demonstrates how to load and unload your defensive revolver or semiautomatic in a quick and safe manner.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers the three main types of handgun malfunctions you're likely to face - failure to fire, failure to eject and failure to extract feedway stoppage.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden gives a basic overview of how to get into the defensive handgun stance and how to present or "draw" your handgun.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers sight picture and alignment, trigger control, and single action vs. double action handguns.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches the emergency reload, tactical reload and administrative reload, with photos to demonstrate each.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches the ready position, thumb over thumb grip, the IPSC thumbs forward grip, the AMW grip, and the aggressive modified weaver grip.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden help you be ready with dry practice and live fire training. It's not enough to buy a handgun and stick it in your dresser drawer. Learn how to train for the worst case scenario.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers defensive handgun definitions, guncraft history, Jeff Cooper's ideas on self-defense, legal considerations for CCW and combat mindset.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden passes along tips and advice on practical handgun training, dry practice, tactical training and gunfighting.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden defines basic defensive handgunning and puts it into perspective for the student of armed self-defense.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers handgun calibers for concealed carry, revolvers vs. semiautos, CCW holsters, dry practice, live-fire practice, plus loading and unloading the handgun.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers Lawrence's Combat Triad and the mindset needed to prevail with your handgun in a violent encounter.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden gives Col. Jeff Cooper's four universal rules for firearm safety, plus specific safety rules for semi-automatics and revolvers.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden looks at small-bore vs. big-bore handguns, revolvers vs. semiautos plus holsters and other gear for concealed carry and self-defense.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden gives a basic and very useful look at the history of defensive handgun doctrine. Understanding the past will enable you to be better prepared today.
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.
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden gives a quick look at the popularity of concealed carry and armed self-defense and trends to be aware of.