Colonel Jeff Cooper

GreifShorthairs

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I wonder what the Gunner's guru would have to say about our last election and how the media turned a blind eye to most everything concerning the "chosen" one?
I always enjoyed his section. Always felt he was spot on with his opinions.
He was truly a man you could say that had "true grit".
 
A quote from Cooper:

Whence all this whimpering? Having been involved in a couple of first class wars personally, I do not remember all this emphasis on suffering, rather than achievement. Suffering is easy. You learn it the first time, but achievement calls for talent, determination and courage. When the boys march off to war we used to cheer. Why do we whine now?
 
Another Cooper quote:

A certain faction amongst the anti-gun people has now targeted the 50 caliber BMG cartridge as a menace to society. You just cannot get it across to some people that it is the man, not the instrument, that is the force for either good or ill. The 50 caliber Browning machinegun, either in its original form or as a repeating rifle is a most interesting artifact, but it is tremendously inconvenient to use, except under certain specific military or paramilitary situations. But the hoplophobes just see guns as bad in themselves, not in their capacity to achieve any particular objective. They do not hate crime, they hate guns, and there is no reasoning with them, because a phobia is just that, a mental aberration not subject to reasoned argument.
 
Greif and all:
Found this link several years ago. It is a link to all of his columns for Cooper's Corner, or Gunsite Gossip, spanning 13 years, 1993 to 2006.

http://dvc.org.uk/jeff/


I printed them all out a couple of years ago and spent one whole weekend in front of the fire reading them.

He was an icon, and probably one of a kind!

Enjoy!
Tim
 
Imo, Cooper was a real American hero. Right along with Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Crockett, Bridger, William Wallace(not American, but our roots came from that area) and a host of other freedom lovers. Men of this caliber are dwindling fast. A piece of America disappeared forever when Cooper died. We have become a nation of socialist whiners. Cooper is groaning in his grave.
 
It truly is sad that Cooper's type are almost a extinct breed.
The ones that were too proud for a handout.....would rather go without than to lose even a little of their pride.
Would give of themselves to a neighbor in need of a helping hand without thinking what was in it for themselves.
Would never swear in front of women and children and would have words with any that would.
Would give the people they were working for a honest days work for an honest days wage (even if they had the internet back then)
Would go to war if their country needed them as it was their country they loved that needed protecting (Not do as Clinton)

Now it is common for people to expect a handout.......
Now it is common to hear people swear in front of women and children........
How many millions does it cost in lost productivity for companies for the internet and non work related e-mails alone........
Can you imagine the outcry if we had to have a draft today.......

Alas I fear this is what we are becoming......a nation of Liberals.
 
Maybe it's a blessing for Col. Cooper that he is not having to live under these times??

He might have blown a GASKET!!!!

Three 44s
 
Reading Cooper's writings as a teenager had a powerful effect upon me, and I came to regard him as a second father, probably more influential to me than my real father. When he died it felt like losing my father all over again. Two years later the loss still hurts. I was fortunate to have taken two shooting classes from him in his late seventies and gotten a slight taste of him in person. His body was about shot but his mind was sharp as a tack. Not a man to trifle with.

If you have not read Cooper's Commentaries on the internet, or his many books, you owe it to yourself to read them ALL. It may plant seeds in your mind that will someday bear magnificent and rewarding fruit. Especially in these trying times.

Cooper was a brilliant and complex man whose achievements and contributions in not only the firearms field but others are sorely under-appreciated and, sadly, widely unknown. Student, teacher, seeker of truth, warrior, adventurer, explorer, philosopher, historian, connoisseur of excellence, hunter, 'shottist', race car driver, defender of liberty...We of his fans and the 'Orange Gunsite family' know, and are richer for it. As are many who benefitted from his teachings without even knowing it.

If Cooper could interrupt his teaching John Moses Browning the Modern Technique on the 'big range in the sky' (with Browning's favorite pistol invention of course) and say one thing from the grave it would be:

"Stand up as men and continue the fight!"

Well done Marine, God Bless, Semper Fidelis and Rest in Peace. (Smart salute, fading Taps, something in my eye...)
 


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