I’ve been following Mike Pannone through his writings and videos on the Internet for quite some time now. I enjoy his no-nonsense, performance based approach to training. His drills are challenging and rooted in reality. I particularly like his 15 in 10 Drill, which pushes the limits of speed while keeping a tight accuracy standard. This past SHOT Show, I ran into Mike in one of the hallways and had a nice chat with him. While this was the first time we had met in person, I felt like we were chatting like two old shooting buddies. His real world experience is significant (look it up), but Mike also has a solid grasp of the industry, and therefore understands the pros and cons of each weapon system. Hilton recently attended Mike’s Covert Carry Class and keeps telling me how I have missed out by not yet taking the opportunity to get on the range with Mike.
A few years back, I purchased Mike’s M16/M4 Handbook, a field sized, spiral bound, reference guide printed on smudge resistant paper that belongs in every student’s range bag. It’s not designed to replace any instructor or technical manual, but rather, it’s an easily portable reference that contains operator level information that many of the hard core students or instructor level shooters often take for granted. One of the refreshing features of the manual is that it is fairly devoid of opinion, but rather, filled with usable facts that the shooter will find extremely handy to have.
Covered topics include specifications for the weapon system, operational theory, external ballistics and how they affect practical application, basic marksmanship concepts and techniques, zeroing (more external ballistics here), care/feeding of the weapon system, adjustments, and a whole bunch more information. Some handy information includes the values of the click adjustments of various iron sight setups as well as optics.
For those using the military M16 or the new HK416 carbine, Mike has published handbooks specific to these platforms. These books are the manuals I wish were actually included with every purchase of a weapon.
Buy your own copy here:
Thanks for the link. Great info.
I’m glad to see Mike has updated his website. It looked totally abandoned for a while.
And I have his M16 / M4 handbook. Being new to the AR platform, I’ve found it to be very helpful filling in those basic knowledge gaps that most experienced shooters rarely bother discussing.