Tactical Reality : An Uncommon Look At Common-Sense Firearms Training And Tactics

Rating:
Summary: Crammed with solid information
Review: Louis Awerbuck is one of America's premier firearms trainers and instructors. He firmly believes that training and tactics are the most crucial elements in determining how people respond in a real fight.
Tactical Reality: An Uncommon Look at Common-Sense Firearms Training and Tactics brings together a decade of articles by Awerbuck in S.W.A.T. and Soldier of Fortune magazines on subjects ranging from creative target systems and firearms marksmanship under stress, to defensive survival of a deadly-force encounter.
Tactical Reality is intended to promote thought on surviving a fight in the harsh reality of the street. It’s not for the squeamish or anyone who isn't prepared to fight to defend himself or his family. It is for everyone interested in finding out how to take a realistic approach to training so that, if need be, he can turn the tactical odds in a gunfight in his favor.
Here are just a few of the many article contained in this large volume.
·You are what you practice
·Reaction time
·Ballistics: The magic bullet
·The mark of a smart shooter
·Pros and cons of various body positions
·Your back-up weapon
·Making your training realistic
·What to do in a no-shoot situation
·Using a high-intensity flashlight
·What to do when attacked on your motorcycle
·And many, many more

Awerbuck writes with a conversational style, like a couple of buddies over a brew. This buddy though, knows what he’s talking about.
Good book. I recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: lacks detail
Review: The author seems very knowledgable and identifies quite a number of training problems. But he offers very little detail about how specifically to resolve the problems. My money was much better spent on books such as: Tactical Pistol by Gabriel Suarez, In The Gravest Extreme by Massad Ayoob, Street Smarts by Jim Grover, Combat Handgunnery by Chuck Taylor, Stopping Power by Evan Marshall, and Stressfire Vol 1 by Massad Ayoob.

Rating:
Summary: tactical reality
Review: This is a very good manual on firearms training. It is a book intended for those interested more than just punching holes in paper targetes, it is for real world martial artists who understand the importance and reality of winning lethal force encounters. I highly recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: tactical reality
Review: This is a very good manual on firearms training. It is a book intended for those interested more than just punching holes in paper targetes, it is for real world martial artists who understand the importance and reality of winning lethal force encounters. I highly recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: Strong beginning, but fades at the end
Review: When I started reading this book, I thought that this is one of those rare 5-star books. The thinking was unconventional and fresh, and there was a lot of humor in the text. Then when I reached about the halfway on the book, I became fed up with the constrained humor that Awebuck seems forced to cram his text with. And the subjects became less and less interesting, also. The thinking is unconventional to some extent, but Awebuck fails to find new aspects on the subject matter, and the text ends up repetiting the same ideas.

This book is comprised of articles published in several magazines berofe, and the problems with this format are obvious: The limitations on length placed on magazine column limit the way issues can be handled, the chapters in the book are not arranged by the subject handled, which forces the reader to go through the whole book if he is looking information on certain subject, there is some repetition in the book, the author is forced to end each and every chapter in some kind of conclusion that is not required in a text that is intended to be published in book form from the beginning, on some occasions is seemed that the author was short of ideas, but the monthly column was to be written anyway, and so on.

If the book were fully edited, the column format was discarded, the repetitive stuff removed, and the size of the book would be reduced to a more practical 8,5 x 5,5 size, the book would be worth at least one extra star. Nevertheless, because of the unconventional thinking, it is far more beneficial to read this book than the third or fourth book by your favorite author.