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 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
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 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
actually you are pressing the recoil spring plug which is under the barrel. AND of course you are following rule#3 so you are golden. If you have one of those recoil spring guide rod hings then a check must be made by gripping the slide.
1911 can be press checked by pushing against the recoil guide rod under the muzzle, not the muzzle itself. It’s an outdated technique but not quite as unsafe as it looks.
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.
"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.
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.
According to his recollections, the last time he was shot at was during the Korean War. While serving as a liaison in Thailand, a North Korean operative ambushed him using a 9MM Sten Gun. He returned fire killing his attacker
During WW2, he was assigned as an Officer in Charge of a Marine Detachment aboard one of the Pearl Harbor refurbished Battleships. His only "Direct Combat action" Consisted of going ashore as a Naval Gunfire support liaison and getting jumped by some Japanese Officer shouting "Marine you die!" It was the Japanese Officer who ended up doing the dying. According to his stories, this happened twice. The first Japanese Officer was killed by a revolver, the 2nd by a 1911
@Giancarlo Di Rosa - In case you haven't found it in the intervening two months, here is a link to the continuation of the combative mindset, which is known as Col. Cooper's color codes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Yia8EJd11k.html
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)
The late Colonel Cooper had many 1911s. In this video he is carrying a full size custom one, probably built on a Colt base gun. He did have a two tone Pachmayr Combat Special (visible on Google images) and another two tone Colt that Wiley Clapp wrote an article about on Tactical Life.
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
Robert Lehnert Ayoob, Grossman, and Cooper. 3 blowhards who have never actually been in a gunfight who fancy themselves to be authorities on the subject 😂
Rifle Shooter Channel are you saying Cooper never saw combat? He was a combat veteran of both WW2 and Korea. Perhaps I misunderstood you, but you listed his name as one of "3 blowhards". Cooper's combat record is well documented.
Old post but in case anyone still wants to know. He talks about Rhodesia in past tense so that make it later than 1979. He talks about the "new" pistol the US Army is using and the issues with its double action trigger; that sounds like the M9 Beretta which came into service in 1985 or thereabouts.
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.
