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Best practiced at night, if you can.

Had to come back to this and other older videos just to clear my mind. There are a shocking amount of negative comments about Col. Cooper in some more recent videos. All seem to be the result of how students have been indoctrinated in the last let’s say 15 years?

None of my 1968 bulls-eye LE training prepared me for a 1974 gunfight against three armed robbery suspects. I was armed w/an issued 2” Colt DS and we were shooting at each other over the hoods of our cars. We were on a dark outdoor parking lot where it was too dark to see the end of my gun so I used the muzzle flash to “aim” my gun & score four center mass hits on the bad guy.

I really like the technique of preloading the revolver double action trigger.

Baboon!! Perfect description of ours in America

I was very fortunate to attend Gunsite while the Colonel was still in charge . It was a great learning experience! I also went to Ray Chapman’s “Chapman’s Academy “ , two very different personalities but both legends in their own way

LOL, all fat white boys. And I can say that because I’m a fat white boy.

Eric Baldwin are you listening?

The Millennial generation is woefully unprepared to defend themselves today, they are victims that just haven't figured it out yet. Totally self absorbed in their own little world 99% of the time.

I was told "there is a lawyer connected to every bullet you fire"

I was trained by the FBI and they say when in a gun fight you only look at front sight and shoot front sight and shoot front sight and shoot nothing else .Mr Cooper was a genius

Great stuff!!

Col. Cooper was right on and a great teacher.

those are the straightest chalk lines I've ever seen

Grip Clear Click Smack Look Bang Dead!

A press check by pushing the slide back with your index in front of muzzle? Yikes!

Can’t hear you Mr. Cooper

Man it sucks that I can’t hear this guy. Maybe too many mosh pits.

Like I learned in Forrest Gump, "Shit happens." That doesn't mean to shrug it off. It means don't be in denial.

This is the color code before other people mucked it up. Massad Ayoob only slightly over complicated it, by adding black, but it was unnecessary. Others, like Dave Grossman have WAY over thought it, adding physiological stress levels, more color categories. The Colonel's purpose for the code was a SIMPLE pre-disposed, pre- planned course of action because utter surprise is often fatal.

I met him in 1996 on ASU campus, in a talk he gave. One of the high points of my life.

When I was a young man, Jeff Cooper was the Man, when I turned 21 years old I bought a 1911 Colt 45 auto, I wish I had that gun today ): ?

"A man who can hit a pack of cigarettes 9 times out of 10 at 25 yards misses at 18 inches, confronts an armed enemy at arms length and misses" Today, in the "Post Cooper era" The answer to that problem is increased magazine capacity

Condition yellow. Turning around with the “uhh?” “tends the left cheek” to the right hand which wants to strike you or that struck you from behind on the right cheek.

Condition white killed Chris Kyle.

Outstanding!

Cell phones and handheld tablets are the greatest cause of living in condition white than anything else in these times. People are basically brain dead drunk 90% of their lives.

Thanks for posting this, and all the other Cooperisms you've posted - Col. Cooper is probably the most influential of all the pistoleros from back in my day... his lessons don't get old, they may yet save lives. When I was a kid I had subs to Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times, it was Cooper's and Skelton's columns that I hungered for.

Love that two tone Colt..Gotta find one. Les Baer makes a real nice one. But all do respect, I don't like that Boss 429 engraved on the side. Love the car. But don't want the name on my firearm. But I digress. What a an icon for the firearm enthusiast and education he was. RIP.

If you listen to Cooper, he’s not talking about awareness (that’s assumed), he’s talking about readiness and focus.

Great video. Subscribed.

How many men has this dude killed in anger? He seems very human, and gentle in a way, but also like he could kill almost anyone.

Great advice, thanks for vid.

where is the rest of the lesson? thank you

the best gun for self-defense is 100% the glock 19 ,but the colt gold cup national match 1911 is better the only thing is the safety ,you have to practice practice practice the colt had more stopping power (45 acp)

I try to be in yellow all the time and my wife calls me paranoid. I hate that! Ha!

Yeagers the master

Awesome, as in martial arts with form comes speed with speed comes power

The funny thing is I developed these rules long before I heard this. And I practice them at all times. It's great you have these up.

That 16% was a hard earned 5%. lol

MASTER!!! so glad to see you again, Sir!!

Jeff Cooper clearly was a great firearms instructor.

what 1911 dose he carry?

We have to make the decision to respond as he said.

At least Massad Ayoob only added "black" and that was not REALLY necessary. Grossmans's adding colors to indicate panic and incapacity is just plain silly

thank you for posting this

I learned an important lesson on the video about the pistol grip. Thanks for posting it.

Good video. I am glad to find your channel and I have subscribed.

Anyone know what year this was filmed?

This series of tuition by the master in my opinion has never been improved on! The instruction on grip is so detailed and correct the learner need not look further. Thanks for posting.