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 Easy to read, informative, and interesting. - EXPENSIVE Jun 08, 2009
This book seemed very easy to read, the flow of literature was informative and easy to digest. No $60 dollars words being thrown around, just simply put thoughts for the la-men man to comprehend. Tiger has taken several ideas, concepts and writing s from other tactical type authors and put them to use in a solid state. He has quotes from Jeff Cooper all the way to Bruce Lee. I found it to be a great building block nook, if you are interested in learning more about tactical defense/shooting, this is a great place to start. The techniques/methods that are explained regarding the 1911 are universal. The pistol techniques can be used for just about any pistol (maybe not a revolver)
Unfortunately, the only major draw back I found was the price. For the size of the book, $25 is a bit steep, plus Amazon charged me about $10 for shipping. Buyer beware of the shipping! Then again, I have purchase books on Amazon where the shipping is more then the book!
In the end, I enjoyed the book, and would recommend it. It only took me about three days to read it. It is a pretty thin book.
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 Ok for the Very Basics and the Uninformed Mar 01, 2009
Disappointing, is really the word that comes to mind.
While this book may be fine for those who actually know enough to filter out the good from the bad, but if you are already biased and think you identify with the author or the schools listed or that you think you know everything there is already then buy this book.
I've never felt the need to post a review until now. I felt a little duped by the high reviews compared with the actual product. Any adult who has enough time to play and review every shootem up video game obsiously isn't working a real job or training hard enough.
With my constant deployments and high op tempo I wanted something to read and thought that this would be a good buy. I don't regret buying it, if I only learn one new thing or even learn what not to do, then it is worthwhile.
...But the end result is that I can't recommend this to any serious professional, one that trains seriously and works in high threat places doing things that aren't discussed with the true armchair quarterbacks posting reviews. I do recommend this book if all you do is sit on your couch and watch movies and play video games, then this would be right for you, especially if it made you feel more like a man and that you belonged to a "cool" group of "killers".
...For those of you who will get mad, don't bother responding, I won't read this again...I have better things to do with my time and talent.
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 This is a great book. Feb 02, 2009
This is a great book and an excellent training reference. I really like the handwritten notebook format of the book.
It is not perfect -- it needs some spelling and grammar work and it REALLY needs a table of contents or index -- but even with those issues it is well worth the money, highly recommended, and earns its 5 stars.
Also, although its focus is AR-style carbine and Model 1911-style handguns, 99% of it is still relevant for users of other carbines and handguns.
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martial art of the rifle and pistol Oct 20, 2008
Other reviewers here have compared McKee's The Book of Two Guns to Bruce Lee's classic Tao of Jeet Kune Do, and it is an appropriate comparison. Like Bruce Lee's book, too, BOTG chronicle's a warrior's journey to the heart of the most serious game of all. More focused than Lee, though, McKee has created a training manual for armed martial artists, based on his own years of direct experience as student and instructor in some of the best tactical firearms schools in the US. The Book of Two Guns (uniquely hand written and drawn) is a handbook of what works, and no higher compliment can be paid to the book than this: it takes an art that is very complex and daunting, and makes it understandable and accessible.
I have trained at McKee's Shootrite Academy, before and after reading the BOTG, and the book remains my first reference to keep the skills that I acquired there, and to try and learn new ones. When I was working on my own book on historical firearms I used the extensive Shootrite library as a primary source. It is the library of a serious student of gunfighting, just as Shootrite Academy is a serious student's resource for the most effective modern fighting techniques. The Book of Two Guns, which is deceptively simple like all the best martial arts, is the result of a lifetime's apprenticeship to the martial art of the rifle and the pistol.
Hal Herring
Author of: Famous Firearms of the Old West
Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers to Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
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JEET KUNE DO of Gunfighting Jul 10, 2008
McKee's BOOK OF TWO GUNS reminds me a lot of Bruce Lee's classic TAO OF JEET KUNE DO. Like TJKD, BOTG chronicles a man's learning experiences across a broad range of techniques. Also like Lee's book, McKee's is presented almost as a journal, full of the author's own sketches and with an organizational style that can be described as "freewheeling." Last, like Lee, McKee is interested in techniques, pragmatically borrows and modifies from different "schools," and is concerned not just with combat itself but with the philosophy and mindset behind it. As such, McKee makes postmodern gunfighting into a full-fledged martial art. (Which makes sense and is fair -- after all, in the glory days of the samurai, their swords and bows were the pinnacle of extant weapons technology in their world, the equivalent of autoloading rifles and pistols today.)
This book is mostly composed of technique and philosophy/mindset. Unlike most "gun books" out there today, this book is refreshingly NOT obsessed with equipment. Yes, the author briefly describes why he prefers the AR15 carbine and the 1911 pistol, and also explains what modifications and accessories he thinks are worthwhile (and those are minimal -- this guy is not a gadgeteer who puts thousands of dollars worth of space-age optics and lasers and whatnot on a fighting gun, which is also a refreshing change from the norm.) However, though he clearly has his preferences, in another welcome departure from most "gun books," McKee is not dogmatic or insistent about them -- he readily admits that other firearms can work just fine and accomplish the same tasks, too.
While he quotes a lot from the usual suspects like Jeff Cooper, Clint Smith, Bill Jordan, and Fairbairn & Sykes, he also brings in intellectuals, philosophers, and academics such as Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz, Martin van Creveld, and yes, Bruce Lee (who, if you didn't know, had a postgraduate education in philosohy.)
For what it is -- a collection of the highlights of a journal from one man's education in combat -- the book is very good. It is, admittedly, presented almost 'as is' from Mr. McKee's notes -- the text is handwritten with occasional spelling/grammar errors, and the sketches, while mostly pretty good/more than adequate, are not the polished work of a professional artist. Some would call this crude, others would call it honest or authentic. If you're interested in the techniques, philosophy, and mindset of combat, rather than just in the gear, you'll enjoy and learn from this book.
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