Recent Correspondence from one of our Contributors

Recent Correspondence from one of our Contributors

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Recent correspondence from one of our Contributors:

Lindy,

Our country had been shackled in 1938 by A.H., only to see itself be engulfed by the ever so hungry red beast from the east. The iron curtain and the totalitarian regime kept such a strong squeeze on our throats that we did not know what George Lucas’ Star Wars was, the information simply could not penetrate through. Despite this most unpleasant reality, I managed to find a strange name with butchered up spelling in numerous military and LE instruction books of that era. The materials were taught to the troops and police personnel. The man in the black and white photographs demonstrated proper firearm grip with the finger strictly off the trigger. The environment around him looked like a desert. The misspelled name of that individual read “Džef Kůpr”.

This year we get to celebrate Gunsite’s 50th anniversary. To the Czechoslovakians, that is ten years longer than the Soviets managed to hold us hostage with the aid of 20+ million active soldiers strong.

Such is the power of the Raven!

-Lukáš Rozkovec

Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation Contributes $25,000 to Firearms Research Center at UW

Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation Contributes $25,000 to Firearms Research Center at UW

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We support their mission and hope to partner with them more significantly in the future.   Coincidentally, our donation was approved by our Board of Directors at the same time the FRC was accepting a large grant from the Trump administration to further educational programs in our school system.
Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation Donation to the NRA Whittington Center

Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation Donation to the NRA Whittington Center

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We are proud to announce our donation to the NRA Whittington Center.  This donation takes the form of an endowment which will fund maintenance and enhancements to the existing Cooper Range at the Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico, in perpetuity.
The Cooper Range is a multi-use shooting range at Whittington that includes a cabin for meeting space, a Rifle Walk, covered benches for sighting-in rifles, a pistol bay and several opportunities for long-range challenges. The range presents the opportunity to set up many of Jeff Cooper’s classic exercises, including shooting clay birds with rifles.
The Cooper Range was set up over 20 years ago through the generous support of the following people/entities:
                       Jeff and Janelle Cooper
                        John Gannaway
                        Joe and Lindy Wisdom
                        John Moore Family
                        Dan Predovich Family
                        Jim Haas Family
                        Tom Russell Family
                        Larry Larsen
                        Rich Wyatt
                        GSI
                        Steyr
The range has been enjoyed by many over the years and this current donation will assure that it will continue to be a special place for all who have been positively influenced by Jeff Cooper and his teachings.
May we all continue to ride, shoot straight and speak the truth.
Excerpts from the Writings of Jeff Cooper – November 2025

Excerpts from the Writings of Jeff Cooper – November 2025

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Firepower

In studying into the background material for the forthcoming Babamkulu Enterprise in Africa next year, I have gone rather deeply into the two startling British reverses in 1881 at Laing’s Nek and Majuba Hill. (We plan to visit the sites next May.) These two incidents took place on adjoining terrain within three days of each other and point to lessons which should have been learned a century ago, but still have not got across to many people who should know about them.

Consider the “butcher’s bill.” At Laing’s Nek the British attacked a Boer defensive position at a crest of a saddle (nek is what we would call a saddle in the American West) with about 450 men, following a small but violent artillery preparation. They were repulsed with a loss of 150 dead – against 14 for the Boers. On the occasion immediately following, the British seized Majuba Hill by means of a night march involving something over 500 soldiers. In the morning, they were thrown off the hill by a Boer force of about the same size. In this action the British lost 280 dead, including their commanding general. The Boers lost one man, plus another who died some days later of his wounds.

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