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.
Adaptive Rifle: How to shoot an AR-15 with an unmagnified optic.
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: Joel Park and a panel of guests discuss practical shooting. I'll regularly join Joel for discussions. Video versions of the episodes are available to PSTG members at the PSTG web site.
Hit Factor Podcast: A panel of practical pistol competitors discuss competition, marksmanship and related topics.
Speed Up and Get Your Hits: Three good shooters talk shooting, often with an interesting guest.
Casual Shooter Podcast: Retired Marine Recon soldier ans scout/sniper instructor Mike Riddle interviews shooters and industry professionals.
Behind the Lens: Brian Conley of Hunters HD Gold interviews shooters, industry professionals, and match directors.
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.
Short Course: Ben Berry talks practical shooting.
Practical Shooting After Dark: Ben Stoeger and a panel of guests discuss practical shooting from a competitive angle. On hiatus.

Social Media

I'm focusing on X (formerly Twitter) for a variety of reasons: @atl_flaneur.

Ben is posting shorts to YouTube: @BenStoeger187.

Hold-outs on Instagram (alphebetical order):

Telegram feed of content from Ben, Matt, and others: Tactical Beards.

Videos

Pranka/Stoeger rifle/pistol class dump. Two and a half hours of Matt Pranka and Ben Stoeger teaching carbine and pistol shooting.
Fundamentals class dump. An hour of lectures and demos from Ben & Hwansik's Fundamentals class.
Fundamentals class dump. An hour of lectures and demos from Ben & Joel's Fundamentals class.
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.
Mason Lane class dump. Unedited video of a recent class.
PSTG Talkthrough Preview Great Plains 2020. Match talk-through explaining stage strategy.
JJ Racaza's High-Speed Marksmanship Class Review. Gets into how JJ pulls the trigger and a bit on transitions and movement.
How To Dry Fire Like A Grandmaster Shooter With JJ Racaza. JJ on dry firing draws, reloads, transitions, and position entries/exits.
Pavel Torgashov - 2017 Archangel Michael Cup. Lots to mine here on mixing aggressive movement and precise shooting.
Aiming is Useless. Rob Leatham explains how holding the pistol steady while pulling the trigger is more important than precise aiming for many of the shots we're making in practical shooting.
Pro Tip: Speed Reloads with CPL Travis Tomasie. Travis Tomasie shows how to reload.
Tyler Meisenheimer on draws: description, slow motion, and regular speed.

Other Resources

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 Ben's previous videos in the previous section, then you'll love PSTG.
Train Like an 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.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Netflix series on Formula 1 racing that focuses on the drivers and team principals. Gets into the fearlessness 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 (alternate) 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 boxes and avoid shipping. Call ahead and make sure they're open and the targets you want are in stock.
Metal Spinning Targets: The 8" swinging plates that I use are from these guys.

Atlanta-Area USPSA Matches

Atlanta Practical Shooters: South River Gun Club, first Sunday.
Cherokee Gun Club USPSA: second Saturday.
River Bend Gun Club USPSA: fourth Saturday.

Last edit: 29 March 2024

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