SPEMack618
So, I stumbled upon Colonel Cooper's "Commentaries" and I am reading through them with great delight. The man's writing style is certainly unique. However, I was wondering if there was a better way to put them in context.
Such as the difference in Orange and Gray Gunsite?
Regarding "Orange Gunsite" v. "Grey Gunsite":
In 1992 Jeff Cooper sold the American Pistol Institute.
Under the new owner the instruction shifted away from Modern Technique as taught by Jeff Cooper.
To distinguish between the two schools, Jeff Cooper referred to Gunsite and its graduates from the period when he owned and operated Gunsite as "Orange Gunsite" and to the subsequent operation as "Grey Gunsite". This is because when the school was sold, the color scheme was changed from the original color of orange to grey. Richard Gee owned Gunsite from 1992 - 1999 when he sold to Colonel Buz Mills. The instruction at the school returned to that of the Modern Technique as taught by Jeff Cooper. Jeff Cooper once more associated himself with the school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunsite#cite_note-10
I have been recently asked by several correspondents about the difference between "Orange Gunsite" and "Grey Gunsite." When the Countess and I moved over here many long years ago, she selected as our official colors orange and chocolate brown. All of our signs, notices, and banners were thus rendered in those colors, establishing a tradition which we intended to follow, rather like those of "Navy blue and gold, or forever and forever Stanford red." When the current owner purchased the estate he decided to wipe out that tradition and change the colors to drab grey and black, and repainted all the signs. This was rather a favor to us, since it marked a clear-cut dividing line between the Gunsite tradition and the GTC operation. Now we can call Orange Gunsite that institution which the Countess and I created. Grey Gunsite is whatever the current owner desires to make of it. Hence in conversation Orange Gunsite means one thing and Grey Gunsite another. (And never the twain shall meet.)
"Jeff Cooper's Commentaries Vol. 2 No. 5 May 1994".
http://www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/jeff2_5.html
I am an "Orange" family member. (API 250, 260, 350, & 499)
One little known fact about the Gunsite experience, many students experienced performance anxiety when Col. Cooper showed up on the range while training was going on. Cooper would usually ride to the range on a three wheeled motorbike. The sound was distinctive. When students heard this sound, they knew he was coming and most fired groups opened up as the students manifested their anxiety to do well before the master, with the opposite result. I forget the term the instructors used to refer to the phenomenon, to try to get the students to relax and concentrate on shooting. I think it was something like "tricycle group".