Books

You can buy Ben Stoeger's books at Ben Stoeger Pro Shop (packaged with dry-fire targets) or order them through Amazon. I'd recommend starting with Practical Shooting Training, as it's a one-stop shop that lays out training plans for new, intermediate, and advanced shooters. Add in a couple of scaled dry-fire targets and you're ready to go!

• Practical Shooting Training: Completely revised replacement for Dryfire Reloaded and Skills & Drills Reloaded that breaks shooting into four skill levels and provides an integrated live- and dry-fire program for each one.
• Dryfire Reloaded: How to train dry fire.
• Skills & Drills Reloaded: How to train live fire.
• Practical Pistol Reloaded: Deep dive into shooting technique. Covers grip, stance, draws, transitions, etc. along with stage breakdown.
• Breakthrough Marksmanship: Points out core concepts and common mistakes in practical shooting and gives dry- and live-fire drills for diagnosing and fixing these mistakes.
• Match Mentality: Discusses the mental skills in preparing for and competing in matches.

Podcasts

• Training Group Live: USPSA GM Joel Park and a panel of guests discuss practical shooting. Full episodes are available to PSTG members at the PSTG web site.
• Practical Shooting After Dark: Ben Stoeger and a panel of guests discuss practical shooting from a competitive angle.
• Shoot Fast Podcast: USPSA GM Cody Axon and guest hosts discuss all aspects of pistol shooting technique, skill development, and match skills (cancelled).
• Hit Factor Podcast: USPSA GMs Jason Bradley and Jared Fox discuss practical shooting, often with a guest.
• Firearms Nation: Arik Levy interviews top shooters like Eric Grauffel, Ben Stoeger, JJ Racaza, Mason Lane, Ron Avery, and more. There’s a lot of useful info in these interviews, and it’s worth going back and listening again as your skills develop. Episode #123 with JJ is particularly good.

Resources

• Fundamentals class dump. An hour of lectures and demos from Ben’s Fundamentals class.
• Skills and Drills class dump. An hour of lectures and demos from Ben’s Skills and Drills class.
• Practical Shooting Training Group. Ben’s subscription site, which is packed with hundreds of hours of instructional video, class recordings, video feedback, and match talk-throughs along with and Q&A from students. If you liked the two previous videos, you'll love PSTG.
• JJ Racaza's High-Speed Marksmanship Class Review. Gets into how JJ pulls the trigger and a bit on transitions and movement.
• Pavel Torgashov - 2017 Archangel Michael Cup. Lots to mine here on mixing aggressive movement and precise shooting.
• Train Like and Athlete. Matt Little discusses training and execution mindset. Archive link.
• The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best. Long-form read on making the most of your practice time. Archive link.
• Aiming is Useless. Rob Leatham explains how holding the pistol steady while pulling the trigger is far more important than aiming for the type of shots we're making in practical shooting.
• Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Netflix series on Formula 1 racing that focuses on the drivers and team principals. Gets into the fearless and aggression needed to win races, all of which carries over into USPSA shooting.

Gear

• Ben Stoeger Pro Shop: You can find a variety of complete rigs for USPSA that include a belt, magazine pouches, holster, and holster hanger. Also sells scaled dry-fire targets, shot timers, paster guns, pasters, magazine loaders, cleaning supplies, etc.
• Tripod clamp & ballhead plus phone clamp for recording yourself at the range. The clamps work as tripods on a table or barrel or clamp them to a target stand. This clamp is the budget version of the Manfrotto Justin.

Targets

• Atlanta Arms: I’ll drive to their warehouse in Covington, GA periodically to buy a couple of boxes and avoid shipping. Call ahead and make sure they're open and the targets you want are in stock!

Last edit: 21 July 2021

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