Saw this on another forum thought you would all like to know about this.
Jeff Cooper is in extremely grave condition at this hour. Previously hospitalized for possible surgery, he suffered a heart attack and was revived in the hospital.
The heart muscle suffered serious damage.
I received the following from Col. Cooper's daughter Lindy today:
"The latest is not good.
It has been determined that Dad is not strong enough to undergo the kyphoplasty procedure. His lungs and heart are starting to fail.
He will be coming home from the hospital either today or tomorrow and Mom will have hospice care in the home. I will be driving up tomorrow to do what I can to help.
Whatever your religious beliefs, please pray for Col. Cooper and his family. This man is a patriot and a giant among Americans. He is the best of the best.
Thank you for your service to America, Col. Cooper - may God bless and keep you.
Just saw it. I had heard a few times in recent months from Gunsite instructors that he was not good at all.
But it still hits hard.
Prayers and best wishes to the Cooper family.
For those few who don't give Col Cooper enough credit, honestly try to imagine how things would be without his influence.
He got us away from shooting one handed from the cover crouch, on unrealistic qual courses (or worse, bullseye targets). He started the shooting school as we know it. He helped start realistic (compared to how it was) competition. Not all these things developed the way he would like, but they may not have ever existed otherwise.
And this is just the defensive shooting end of his influence.
I've never met the man, but I owe him a lot.
All of us do.
Back when I first got interested in the 1911 pistol (maybe '76 or so) I read everything I could find that was written by Jeff Cooper .... I mean EVERYTHING!!!
He was a great influence on my desire to learn more about shooting in general, and defensive shooting in particular.
He and Chuck Taylor were my heros back then. In fact, I guess they still are!
I just heard that Col Cooper has been hospitalized following a serious heart attack, repotedly the heart muscle has suffered serious damage. This info was reported to have come from trainer Pat Rogers. If it is true, please keep the Col in your prayers. I had the honor of meeting him and attending Gunsite in 1987 and he truly is a pioneer and legend in the pistolcraft and firearms world in general.
Whatever your religious beliefs, please pray for Col. Cooper and his family. This man is a patriot and a giant among Americans. He is the best of the best.
Thank you for your service to America, Col. Cooper - may God bless and keep you.
I have read much of what he has written, and he is truly one of the greatest men of the previous generation. He spoke the truth as he saw it, and was unapologetic when doing so. Some of the things he says are considered controversial by many, but I have found his words to be of uncommon good sense. We have been fortunate in the extreme to have had him among us for as long as we have, and he will certainly be missed by many, myself among them.
THANK YOU, Col. Cooper.
BLESS YOU, and your family.
I can't say that the Colonel is one of my favorite writers these days, but when I was first really getting into hanguns about 1971-72, I bought a copy of "Cooper on Handguns", and just about wore out the print I read it so much.
Saw this on another forum thought you would all like to know about this.
Jeff Cooper is in extremely grave condition at this hour. Previously hospitalized for possible surgery, he suffered a heart attack and was revived in the hospital.
The heart muscle suffered serious damage.
I received the following from Col. Cooper's daughter Lindy today:
"The latest is not good.
It has been determined that Dad is not strong enough to undergo the kyphoplasty procedure. His lungs and heart are starting to fail.
He will be coming home from the hospital either today or tomorrow and Mom will have hospice care in the home. I will be driving up tomorrow to do what I can to help.
I was "into" 1911's for many years before I had even heard of Col. Cooper, but I must admit I, this forum, its members, LEO's, and in fact the entire handgunning community owes this man a debt of gratitude. He taught us the right way to make an actual weapon out of a pistol. Before he came along many people (especially in the military) looked at handguns as nothing more than useless status symbols.
Yep, "pre-Col Cooper" we were shooting one handed from the cover crouch. If lucky, the target might be a human-ish shape, but also might be a bullseye. The course of fire was still pretty unrealistic by having extremely long time limits (if any), limited to a strict number of shots, etc.
Anyone who does anything different owes a debt to him.
He changed everything.
It's been said that if he didn't change things, someone would have. I suppose that's possible, but I doubt it. Had it happened without him, it would have taken many people many years.
He didn't come up with the methods all by himself, but he had the ways and means to assemble the pieces and educate us all.
He was the ultimate student, and the master teacher.
Even if that's true, history remembers the first one. We'll never know who might have changed things, but we will always know who did. I'm grateful to him.
I have never had the opportunity and honor of meeting Colonel Cooper; however, I buried myself in his books and magazines while I was a police officer (1970s and 1980s).
He wrote me a letter one time and sent me an autographed picture of him standing with a rifle.
I will pray for this man and his family before I go to bed this evening.
My heart weeps.
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