Video Transcript
If you're someone who is interested in becoming highly proficient with firearms, you've probably scoured the web for all kinds of different resources. You've probably found some of our videos out there, some of my early work showing different drills and talking about different concepts. And you've probably seen a few other people online, like Ben Stager and a few other instructors out there. You've also probably seen that there's a plethora of books and publications, most of which are about competitive shooting.
And you've probably seen those, or maybe you've seen those, and gone, ah, it just seems too nerdy. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole that far. And to a large extent, I would agree with that. I've seen these shooting books for years. I've owned a lot of them. And I've spooled through them and tried to understand some of the highly complex concepts that some of these books talk about. And for the most part, it wasn't something that I was really engaging with. But a few years ago, as I was getting to know Joel Park and Ben Stager over at Practical Training Shooting Group, they started discussing with me that they were working on a new book. They've written a number of books about match mindset, competitive shooting, practical pistol shooting. But they were working on a book specifically about using a carbine and shooting a rifle.
And the thing about this book that intrigued me the most is they were writing the book and basing the book around the basics, the fundamentals, and making the book highly digestible it would appeal to a wider audience of people. Now, this is something that was very interesting to me. And they were asking me some questions about the type of clientele that maybe the book should be tailored towards. And I was recommending that it should go to people who are outside of the competition shooting environment and were more interested in just being very capable with a carbine. People who maybe are mounting IR lasers to their rifles, training, and equipment. But people that see the importance of weapons handling being important, something that's something they should be good at. And so I was able to proofread some of the early copies of the book. And they even asked me to write The Forward, which is a very honoring privilege to be able to do that.
So the book here is Adaptive Rifle. Now, the thing that this book is--and I'd say the thing that this book is not--is this is a book that gets you to, I would say, 80%. So if you are a new shooter or you've just bought your first AR-15 from PSA or some other company, and you've seen videos on YouTube and you want to get good at shooting, but you don't really know where to start. Maybe you've seen some of our videos, and that scratches the itch a little bit. But you're looking for something you can actually take to the range that maybe doesn't require internet, because that is a problem with some ranges, even like ours. Pulling stuff up is kind of hard. This is a book you can take with you that shows a series of shooting drills and how you will be shooting them on the range, things to look for, things to diagnose. But then on top of that, there's even dry fire different dry fire techniques that you need to be working on for these specific drills.
So you can shoot that drill on the range when you come out and maybe pick four from the book, shoot those in live fire, write some stuff down in the book, which I've been doing with this copy right here. And then you can go home and look at the dry fire section and it says, hey, when you go home to dry fire this drill, here's the things you're paying attention to and here's the things that you're doing. So if you're someone who doesn't want to go down the insane nerd rabbit hole, which is the one that you're going to be doing, the insane nerd rabbit hole, which is all the shooting books out there written by competitive GMs and all kinds of nerds when it comes to shooting, this is probably the most approachable book out there for just the average shooter. Pick up a copy. There's a number of drills in here you could shoot at the range. You could track your performance with your different weapons or different times, the date, and actually start building out your performance that you can actually look back on and see how much better you've improved on some of these specific skills and some of these specific drills.
So that's something that I really value about this book. It's not trying to get so deep and crazy in the weeds that it's going to turn off a lot of people from even wanting to read the book. It covers sling use. It covers some basics on equipment. The main thing that you need to utilize the book is a shot timer-- in this case, the PACT is what I recommend and use--a rifle with a red dot of some sort, a sling, and a handgun. That is it. There's a few drills towards the end of the book where you're going to be transitioning to a handgun and doing some of that. But for the most part, you're just going to be focusing on rifle skills inside of 50 meters with a rifle with a red dot. That's it. You don't need anything crazy. You don't need anything fancy. You don't even need a bunch of wild shooting equipment. You could even reload from your back pocket.
But if you are looking for something to plus up in your training or something that can keep you on task--because maybe you're not wanting to go through the creative process of figuring out what you need to work on when you go to the range--check out this book. It may help. It may assist you in that. You could pick a copy up. You could look through it. If it's not the kind of thing that's going to help you out, maybe you learn things in a different way, give it to a friend.
But the thing that I really value about this book is that it's not trying to get so deep into the weeds that it's going to turn off a lot of people. This book does get you 80% of the way there. If you want to continue pursuing that super high level of shooting, you're willing to commit the time to it. You're willing to commit the resources, particularly ammunition and getting out and live firing often. That's where you would seek out someone like Ben Stager, Joel Park, or Matt Pranka, who wrote the introduction to this book after my foreword. You're going to pursue one of those instructors out there to get that next level of education. And I've had the privilege of training with all three of those individuals. I sought them out because I wanted that extra 20%. I wanted to get some critiques as to what I was doing properly, what I was doing wrong. And I got a long list of homework that I am still working through. And I'm still paying attention to when I come out here to the range. So definitely check out this book. If this is something that interests you, yes, it's a book. Some of you Gen Z folks may not like the looks of that. You may prefer to stick to a phone and videos, maybe such as this one.
But videos are not a format that is necessarily going to show a drill like this one and tell you how to set it up and what to pay attention to. It's going to be much better from a book compared to a video. With all that said, if you have any other questions about this particular publication or other publications that we are offering on our site, go ahead and email us at [email protected].