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5 unusual facts about Jeff Cooper


Capitol Studios

It houses the Recording Department offices, two mastering rooms, three recording studios which were designed by Vincent Van Huff, Jeff Cooper, and Jack Edwards, plus six production/edit rooms.

Combat pistol shooting

One combat pistol drill is the El Presidente drill, developed by Jeff Cooper in the 1970s and published in the January/February 1979 issue of American Handgunner magazine.

In the 1950s, American instructor Jeff Cooper was instrumental in establishing both a combat pistol based sport, International Practical Shooting Confederation, and a combat pistol training school, Gunsite.

Jeff Cooper

In 1995, Cooper, commenting on the naming of the newly formed Gauteng province in South Africa, said someone suggested they should be referred to as ""Orang-gautengs".

Paulden, Arizona

Jeff Cooper founded the firearms training center the American Pistol Institute, now named the Gunsite Academy, just west of Paulden in 1976.



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Caroline Woodruff

She is a professional broadcaster and trained with the BBC in London going on to present music and arts programmes for BBC Radio Leeds, BBC GMR, and BBC Radio Manchester where she met presenter and producer Jeff Cooper, Editor of radio2XS.

Combat pistol shooting

This drill was invented by Jeff Cooper after the kidnap of Brigadier General James L. Dozier by Italian Red Brigade terrorists.

Kyabram Football Club

Seven Kyabram footballers have won the Morris Medal; Wilf Cox (1934), Jeff Cooper (1958 & 1961), Charlie Stewart (1963), Dick Clay (1964), Peter Gittos (1987), Benny Gugliotti (1993) and Lincoln Withers (2008).

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These included John Peters, who launched Radio Trent (the East Midlands' first commercial radio station in 1975), Amanda Bowman, Tony Lyman, Tim Gough, Steve Merike, Paul Robey, Jeff Cooper, Andy Marriott, Ian Chilvers, Mark Burrows, Ron Coles, Steve Orchard, Tim Rogers, David Lloyd, Ashley Franklin, Peter Quinn, Sheila Tracy, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, Mike Wyer and Erica Hughes.