Home Defense Shotgun
The objective of this course is to cover the topics most relevant to home defense and the use of the shotgun as a defensive tool in that context including:
The realities of home defense
Selection/configuration of the defensive shotgun
Proper ammunition selection
Reliable loading and operation of the shotgun
Shooting technique and recoil management
Patterning
CONCEALMENT MECHANICS
An argument can be made that the draw is the single most important skill involved in the mechanical use of the defensive handgun. The vast majority of defensive gun uses end without a shot being fired, but even here, the gun must be deployed, yet most training classes focus minimally on this imperative skill. This course is designed to impart a high-level skillset in drawing the handgun from realistic concealment, consistently, safely, and with speed, under likely, possible, and adverse conditions. Details here! Cost is $161, 300 rounds required.
Registration here!
Topics Covered:
· Medical and Safety Brief Re-holstering Carry Mode and Holster Considerations
· Fundamentals of Marksmanship Review Clearing the Cover Garment and Establishing Grip
· Presentation and Modulation Single Hand Draw and Presentation
· Support Hand Only Draw and Presentation· Reloading from Concealment
· Draw from Unconventional Positions· Draw While Moving
· Surreptitious Draw
Parking Lot Pistol (Aqil Qadir)
This is an intensive two-day course learning intermediate-level skills to successfully defend yourself with a pistol. This course is designed expressly for the armed citizen who carries a concealed handgun, or the plain clothes or off-duty police officer.
This class is intended for true intermediate (or higher) level students. If you have not had formal training in how to work from a holster safely, this coursework may not be for you yet. There will be a skills assessment early on to determine whether or not the student has the requisite skills to participate safely in this course.
Topics covered in this course will include:
Engaging targets at very close ranges
Drawing and shooting one handed
Engaging animated threats
Shooting with a cognitive load
Understanding and using cover
Engaging targets beyond “normal” pistol ranges
Effective movement and shooting
Effective use of cover
You will need a good handgun, holster, belt, and magazine pouch, at least three magazines, a ball cap and concealment garment (vest, jacket, windbreaker, etc), and eye and ear protection. Expect to fire about 600 rounds of ammunition. Also bring a cooler with soft drinks, water, snacks. The range has a great barbecue restaurant inside. You can also buy lunch there.
REGISTER HERE!
Your instructors will be Ryan McCann, Aqil Qadir and Carson Baldree.
Vehicle Environment Skills and Tactics, Morristown, MN, 18 May
Americans are in love with their cars, and many of us spend hours every day in our vehicles commuting and interacting with society at 60 mph. The criminal and anti-social element is mobile as well, and consequently we may find ourselves in an encounter “in and around” our car.
More information here!
Register here!
Two Person Tactics, Morristown, MN 19 May
People who are serious about self-defense tend to associate with like-minded individuals. Consequently, they may encounter situations where working a problem together can exponentially increase their chances for a successful outcome. This ten-hour Concealed Carry: Two Person Tactics course develops the skills and tactics required for individuals that possess self-defense skills to function as a team across the spectrum of street situations they are likely to encounter with techniques for cooperative communication, movement and the application of appropriate force.
Alternatively, some spouses/significant others decline to prepare for violence, yet may still be present during an event. This course will provide them basic pepper spray and 1st aid skills, as well as enable them to act in concert with their partner. Registration here!
Shotgun Skills
Shotgun Skills builds upon the fundamentals taught in Home Defense Shotgun. The basics will be reinforced, but students will be pushed to improve speed and accuracy with the shotgun on single targets, challenging multiple target arrays, and in competitive timed shooting.
Tactical First Aid and Collapse Medicine (Greg Ellifritz, Huntsville AL, 1 Jun)
This hands-on class will develop proficiency in basic battlefield medical care utilizing the military's latest Tactical Combat Casualty Care protocols.
Students will learn to stop traumatic bleeding from gunshot, knife wounds and blast injuries using the latest pressure bandages, tourniquets, and hemostatic agents.
In addition, students will learn how to treat themselves and families in the event of a longer-term breakdown in our current medical system. Wound cleaning and disinfection under field conditions and best practices for wound closure options will be discussed.
The instructor will provide students with information about what types of drugs to stockpile for natural disasters or a health care system collapse, along with methods for legally acquiring those pharmaceuticals Students will leave the class knowing what items should be included in a comprehensive medical kit and how to improvise those items in an austere environment.
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Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting (Greg Ellifritz, Huntsville, AL 2 Jun)
Winning the arms' length gunfight!
The skills you learned on the target shooting range or in your CCW class may not work for you when the fight happens within arms’ reach. Extreme close range gunfighting is a completely different skill set, one that relies far more on FIGHTING than on mere shooting.
With up to 50% of gunfight fatalities occurring at ranges closer than five feet, you need this skill set. Join Greg Ellifritz as he teaches a dynamic close quarters gunfighting class!
Details and registration here!
Vehicle Environment Skills and Tactics, Bland, MO, 8 June TWO DAY FORMAT
Americans are in love with their cars, and many of us spend hours every day in our vehicles commuting and interacting with society at 60 mph. The criminal and anti-social element is mobile as well, and consequently we may find ourselves in an encounter “in and around” our car.
More information here!
Register here!
Appleseed Rifle Clinic 15-16 June, Culpeper, VA
This is a traditional Appleseed Rifle Clinic. Registration and details here!
Applied Defensive Handgun Skills -John Holschen, 22-23 June Culpeper VA
Applied Defensive Handgun Skills
Marksmanship and gun-handing are important foundational skills for armed self-defense. It is however, a common opinion among people with multiple exposures to lethal encounters that these skills are not the most significant predictor of successful outcomes. This class will focus on the rest of the story. Specifically, we will work to increase your abilities and effectiveness in the critical areas of mental preparation, decision making, tactics and the appropriate application of deadly force.
Tuition $550, Range Fee $50. (Class is limited to 12 students.)
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION HERE!
Vehicle Environment Skills and Tactics, Terre Haute, IN 10 Aug
Americans are in love with their cars, and many of us spend hours every day in our vehicles commuting and interacting with society at 60 mph. The criminal and anti-social element is mobile as well, and consequently we may find ourselves in an encounter “in and around” our car.
More information here!
Register here!
Two Person Tactics, Terre Haute, IN 11 Aug
People who are serious about self-defense tend to associate with like-minded individuals. Consequently, they may encounter situations where working a problem together can exponentially increase their chances for a successful outcome. This ten-hour Concealed Carry: Two Person Tactics course develops the skills and tactics required for individuals that possess self-defense skills to function as a team across the spectrum of street situations they are likely to encounter with techniques for cooperative communication, movement and the application of appropriate force.
Alternatively, some spouses/significant others decline to prepare for violence, yet may still be present during an event. This course will provide them basic pepper spray and 1st aid skills, as well as enable them to act in concert with their partner. Registration here!
Home Defense Shotgun
The objective of this course is to cover the topics most relevant to home defense and the use of the shotgun as a defensive tool in that context including:
The realities of home defense
Selection/configuration of the defensive shotgun
Proper ammunition selection
Reliable loading and operation of the shotgun
Shooting technique and recoil management
Patterning
Practical Revolver
You could be forgiven for thinking that nobody uses revolvers anymore...but Smith & Wesson and Ruger are producing more than half a million revolvers every year. Colt has re-entered the revolver market. Even Kimber is making revolvers now. Revolvers are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment, but unfortunately most modern buyers don't know the practical realities of living with the revolver on a day to day basis.
Practical Revolver is a coaching-intensive class designed to help you learn the keys to shooting the revolver well, loading and manipulating it reliably, and how to care for the revolver so it will operate as expected when you call on it to protect yourself, hit a target, or harvest game.
Rangemaster Master Instructors Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray have been using and learning about revolvers for most of their lives...and they'll pass along some of those lessons to you!
MAG-20 Citizens Rules of Engagement (Massad Ayoob) Huntsville, AL
A two-day, 20-hour immersion course in rules of engagement for armed law-abiding private citizens, emphasizing legal issues, tactical issues, and aftermath management. Topics will include interacting with suspects, witnesses, responding police officers…threat recognition and mind-set…management of social and psychological aftermath after having had to use lethal force in defense of self or others…and preparing beforehand for legal repercussions and minimizing exposure to them. Situations in the home, at the place of business, or “on the street” will all be covered. Cost is $535.00
Register here!
Who Wins, Who Loses and Why (John Hearne Lecture, Culpeper)
Human performance under stress isn’t a new topic. What makes this presentation different is the recency of the research and the presenter’s background. Some of the works in this area are over 25 years old and don’t reflect the most recent discoveries in the field. This presentation uses the latest findings from a wide variety of fields to offer the best understanding of the topic currently available. In addition to new research, considerable time is spent debunking erroneous myths that have been circulated for years.
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Who Wins, Who Loses + Cognitive Pistol (John Hearne, Culpeper)
This course takes the concept of thinking with the pistol and takes it to the next level.The course will feature a series of drills of increasing complexity that will make the shooter think while running the pistol. The goal is to place the shooter under as much “cognitive load” as they can stand. A major teaching tool in this process is the use of tactical anatomy.
Details and Registration here!
Vehicle Environment Skills and Tactics, Brookville, OH,
Americans are in love with their cars, and many of us spend hours every day in our vehicles commuting and interacting with society at 60 mph. The criminal and anti-social element is mobile as well, and consequently we may find ourselves in an encounter “in and around” our car.
More information here!
Register here!
Two Person Tactics, Brookville, OH 13 October
People who are serious about self-defense tend to associate with like-minded individuals. Consequently, they may encounter situations where working a problem together can exponentially increase their chances for a successful outcome. This ten-hour Concealed Carry: Two Person Tactics course develops the skills and tactics required for individuals that possess self-defense skills to function as a team across the spectrum of street situations they are likely to encounter with techniques for cooperative communication, movement and the application of appropriate force.
Alternatively, some spouses/significant others decline to prepare for violence, yet may still be present during an event. This course will provide them basic pepper spray and 1st aid skills, as well as enable them to act in concert with their partner. Registration here!
Vehicle Environment Skills and Tactics, Culpeper, VA 26 Oct
Americans are in love with their cars, and many of us spend hours every day in our vehicles commuting and interacting with society at 60 mph. The criminal and anti-social element is mobile as well, and consequently we may find ourselves in an encounter “in and around” our car.
More information here!
Register here!
Shotgun Skills
Shotgun Skills builds upon the fundamentals taught in Home Defense Shotgun. The basics will be reinforced, but students will be pushed to improve speed and accuracy with the shotgun on single targets, challenging multiple target arrays, and in competitive timed shooting.
Advanced Defensive Pistol (Apache Solutions), Culpeper 9-10 Nov
Advanced Defensive Pistol: Combines both Defensive Pistol One and Two into a 2-day format
The 8-hour Defensive Pistol One course is designed to help you master the practical use of
your EDC tools. While you may have already taken a Concealed Carry class and learned the laws
governing deadly force and general safety and marksmanship, this course will cover drawing from
concealment, different ready positions, verbalization skills, and less lethal options.
Defensive Pistol Two is designed to expand and integrate your skills and incorporate
movement, using cover/concealment and decision-making.
Register here!
MAG-20 Citizens Rules of Engagement (Massad Ayoob)
A two-day, 20-hour immersion course in rules of engagement for armed law-abiding private citizens, emphasizing legal issues, tactical issues, and aftermath management. Topics will include interacting with suspects, witnesses, responding police officers…threat recognition and mind-set…management of social and psychological aftermath after having had to use lethal force in defense of self or others…and preparing beforehand for legal repercussions and minimizing exposure to them. Situations in the home, at the place of business, or “on the street” will all be covered. Cost is $535.00
Register here!
Practical Revolver
You could be forgiven for thinking that nobody uses revolvers anymore...but Smith & Wesson and Ruger are producing more than half a million revolvers every year. Colt has re-entered the revolver market. Even Kimber is making revolvers now. Revolvers are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment, but unfortunately most modern buyers don't know the practical realities of living with the revolver on a day to day basis.
Practical Revolver is a coaching-intensive class designed to help you learn the keys to shooting the revolver well, loading and manipulating it reliably, and how to care for the revolver so it will operate as expected when you call on it to protect yourself, hit a target, or harvest game.
Rangemaster Master Instructors Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray have been using and learning about revolvers for most of their lives...and they'll pass along some of those lessons to you!
Shotgun Skills
Shotgun Skills builds upon the fundamentals taught in Home Defense Shotgun. The basics will be reinforced, but students will be pushed to improve speed and accuracy with the shotgun on single targets, challenging multiple target arrays, and in competitive timed shooting.
Who Wins, Who Loses and Why (John Hearne Lecture, Culpeper)
Human performance under stress isn’t a new topic. What makes this presentation different is the recency of the research and the presenter’s background. Some of the works in this area are over 25 years old and don’t reflect the most recent discoveries in the field. This presentation uses the latest findings from a wide variety of fields to offer the best understanding of the topic currently available. In addition to new research, considerable time is spent debunking erroneous myths that have been circulated for years.
Register here!
Home Defense Shotgun
The objective of this course is to cover the topics most relevant to home defense and the use of the shotgun as a defensive tool in that context including:
The realities of home defense
Selection/configuration of the defensive shotgun
Proper ammunition selection
Reliable loading and operation of the shotgun
Shooting technique and recoil management
Patterning
Shotgun Skills
Shotgun Skills builds upon the fundamentals taught in Home Defense Shotgun. The basics will be reinforced, but students will be pushed to improve speed and accuracy with the shotgun on single targets, challenging multiple target arrays, and in competitive timed shooting.
Practical Revolver
You could be forgiven for thinking that nobody uses revolvers anymore...but Smith & Wesson and Ruger are producing more than half a million revolvers every year. Colt has re-entered the revolver market. Even Kimber is making revolvers now. Revolvers are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment, but unfortunately most modern buyers don't know the practical realities of living with the revolver on a day to day basis.
Practical Revolver is a coaching-intensive class designed to help you learn the keys to shooting the revolver well, loading and manipulating it reliably, and how to care for the revolver so it will operate as expected when you call on it to protect yourself, hit a target, or harvest game.
Rangemaster Master Instructors Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray have been using and learning about revolvers for most of their lives...and they'll pass along some of those lessons to you!
Home Defense Shotgun
The objective of this course is to cover the topics most relevant to home defense and the use of the shotgun as a defensive tool in that context including:
The realities of home defense
Selection/configuration of the defensive shotgun
Proper ammunition selection
Reliable loading and operation of the shotgun
Shooting technique and recoil management
Patterning