Jeff Cooper's Address to Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

[Guest SUNTZU]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYttXa0d1k

[Guest stovepipe]

Neat video... Any idea when it was made?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I enjoyed that! Thanks, SUNTZU

This is a must watch video. The question and answer session is especially enlightening.

[Guest SUNTZU]

Neat video... Any idea when it was made?

From the youtube page for that video...

Lecture by Jeff Cooper given to the 15th Annual Meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness held in San Diego, California; June 1997. http://www.ddponline.org

John Dean "Jeff" Cooper was recognized as the father of what is commonly known as "the Modern Technique" of handgun shooting, and is considered to be one of the 20th century's foremost international experts on the use and history of small arms.

Born John Dean Cooper, but known to his friends as "Jeff", Cooper was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served in both World War II and the Korean War resigning his commission in 1956.[citation needed] He received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University and, in the mid-1960s, a master's degree in history from the University of California, Riverside.

In 1976, Cooper founded the American Pistol Institute (API) in Paulden, Arizona (later the Gunsite Training Center). Cooper also began teaching shotgun and rifle classes to law enforcement and military personnel as well as civilians and did on-site training for individuals and groups around the Free World. He sold the firm in 1992 but continued living on the Paulden ranch. He was known for his advocacy of large caliber handguns, especially the Colt 1911 and the .45 ACP cartridge.

Jeff Cooper conceived and designed the Bren Ten pistol around the 10 mm Auto, based on the Czech CZ 75 design. The cartridge was more powerful than both the 9 mm Luger and the .45 ACP round.

His second major contribution to firearms design was what he termed a Scout Rifle. These bolt action carbines are typically .30 caliber (7.62 mm), less than 1 meter in length and less than 3 kilograms in weight, with iron and optical sights, and fitted with practical slings (such as Ching slings) for shooting and carrying and capable of hitting man-sized targets out to 450 meters without scopes. Typically they employ forward-mounted low-power long eye relief scopes or sights to afford easy access to the top of the rifle action for rapid reloading. Steyr, Ruger, Savage, and several other gun makers now manufacture Scout rifles that roughly match Cooper's specifications, but most lack auxiliary iron sights.

Cooper defined his goal: "... a general-purpose rifle is a conveniently portable, individually operated firearm, capable of striking a single decisive blow, on a live target of up to 200 kilos in weight, at any distance at which the operator can shoot with the precision necessary to place a shot in a vital area of the target." Cooper died peacefully at his home on the afternoon of Monday, September 25, 2006. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation

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Jeff Cooper's Commentaries

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[Guest oldsmobile98]

Thanks for posting, Sun-man.

Neat video... Any idea when it was made?

The Youtube description says June 1997.

A couple times they refer to the North Hollywood Shootout, which would have been just months earlier.

Jeff's comments on the ATF in that video hit the nail on the head.

Abolish that unconstitutional institution and send it to the ash heap of history; it's what Jeff Cooper said we should do.

[Westwindmike]

I got to meet him and shake his hand back at a SHOT show back in 1980. I wore out a copy of Cooper on Handguns, reading and rereading it back then.