The American Handgunner - Gunsite Staff Report - 1977

The American Handgunner – Gunsite Staff Report – 1977

June 24, 2025 Greg Moats Comments 0 Comment

Courtesy of American Handgunner Magazine, www.americanhandgunner.com

Excerpts from Jeff Cooper's writings, Other Good Stuff, The Early Days

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Jeff Cooper and his first #porsche

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Jeff Cooper, president of the IPSC, chats to former world practical pistol champion, Ray Chapman, during the 1979 world shoot held in South Africa in September.

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Jeff Cooper, president of the IPSC, chats to former world practical pistol champion, Ray Chapman, during the 1979 world shoot held in South Africa in September.

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#TheGuru on perhaps the first “Tricycle” at #Gunsite?

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#TheGuru on perhaps the first “Tricycle” at #Gunsite?

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Our latest scholarship recipients at Gunsite, May 29, 2026. Carlos Roman (E ticket),
Anna Componovo (second in the shootoff),
Lindy, Trevor Coningham (won the shootoff), and Chris Rabago. Outstanding!

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Our latest scholarship recipients at Gunsite, May 29, 2026. Carlos Roman (E ticket), Anna Componovo (second in the shootoff), Lindy, Trevor Coningham (won the shootoff), and Chris Rabago. Outstanding!

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300M dead center hit with a Classic Steyr Mannlicher. #jeffcooper

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300M dead center hit with a Classic Steyr Mannlicher. #jeffcooper

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It was a great Cooper Class this last week at #gunsite! Our scholarship recipient, Daniel Pinet, is a deputy sheriff from Kentucky. He received an E ticket! Nice job Daniel!

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It was a great Cooper Class this last week at #gunsite! Our scholarship recipient, Daniel Pinet, is a deputy sheriff from Kentucky. He received an E ticket! Nice job Daniel!

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During the Korean War Jeff became involved with the training of Nationalist Chinese irregulars, some of whom were rather small and a bit intimidated at the thought of using a 45-caliber machine pistol. Here he demonstrates that two M-3 “Grease-Guns”
can be managed quite easily at once — with fair effectiveness at short range.
(Some may note that at that time Jeff had not yet promulgated Rule III.) #greasegun

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During the Korean War Jeff became involved with the training of Nationalist Chinese irregulars, some of whom were rather small and a bit intimidated at the thought of using a 45-caliber machine pistol. Here he demonstrates that two M-3 “Grease-Guns” can be managed quite easily at once — with fair effectiveness at short range. (Some may note that at that time Jeff had not yet promulgated Rule III.) #greasegun

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Happy 106th Birthday Colonel Cooper! With every year that passes we miss you more and more!

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Happy 106th Birthday Colonel Cooper! With every year that passes we miss you more and more!

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Can you identify these 5 of 6 original Combat Masters? Which one is missing? #legends

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Can you identify these 5 of 6 original Combat Masters? Which one is missing? #legends

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“This day I completed my thirty-first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely felt the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. But since they are past and cannot be recalled, I dash from me the gloomy thought, and resolved in future, to redouble my exertions and at least indeavor to promote those two primary objects of human existence, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which nature and fortune have bestoed in me; or in future, to live for MANKIND, as I have heretofore lived for MYSELF.” (sic).

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