1. Mind set and the psychology of armed conflict.
2. Ammunition selection and keeping the thing loaded in a fight.
3. Basic firing positions: Including introduction to tactical employment of them.
4. Fundamentals of tactical movement when employing a shotgun. Includes working with a partner.
5. Patterning, trajectory, zeroing and sighting.
6. Ammunition selection. A review of the types of ammunition available, external ballistics and wound ballistics, tactical advantages and disadvantages of shotgun ammunition.
   

Cost: $375. Includes instruction, range fees, targets and range supplies. Students to provide their own ammunition, personal gear and meals (there is a snack bar at the range). There are no discounts available for this course.

Course format: Lectures (approximately 2 hrs.), and live-fire exercises (approximately 14 hrs.). Each student will need 200 rounds of bird shot, 30 rounds of buck Shot, and 80 slugs. Using a variety of different brands is recommended for this course. Pumps or autoloaders in 12, 16 or 20 gauge.

Instructor: Rangemaster will be Randy Cain. Mr. Cain is currently the Director of Cumberland Tactics, a professional shooting school located in Tennessee. He has provided professional firearms instruction for 12 years, having previously taught at the Yavapai Firearms Academy. Mr. Cain is a registered NRA Police Firearms Instructor, and has served both as a police officer and as a police SWAT team member and Training Officer. He is himself a graduate of numerous training schools, including the American Pistol Institute (Gunsite), Yavapai Firearms Academy, Thunder Ranch, and the FBI Advanced SWAT School.

Prerequisites: None. It is, however, expected that students will have a basic familiarity with firearms. Last day to enroll is 30 days prior to the course date.

Equipment Requirements:

There is certain equipment which is REQUIRED in every course. One may not proceed in the course without the following:

• Ear protection and Eye protection. Eye protection must be clear for the night shoot.

• Cap or hat with baseball-style bill. This is to prevent ejected brass from another shooter's rifle from falling between your eyewear and your eye, burning you. It is important gear.

• Firearm, clean and zeroed.

• Shotshell belts work well as ammunition carriers.

• Knee and elbow pads. The inexpensive kind worn by skateboarders, or pads worn by carpenters and carpet layers are fine.

• A sling. We run a "hot" range, and shotguns must be slung unless they are racked, grounded or in the shooter's hand on line. Any type sling which allows the rifle to be carried muzzle up or muzzle down is fine. No slings which hold the muzzle in a horizontal position while being carried (M60 style) are permitted.

There is other equipment that is not required, but which we know from experience will enhance your experience of the course. We therefore recommend you bring the following:

• Soft drinks or water to drink while down on the range. There is no water on the range itself, and the Club house is too far to run back and forth. No alcohol of any kind is to be consumed within eight hours of the start of any course session or at any time during the course.

• A ground cloth, shooting mat or other cover (such as an old blanket), to cover the ground or concrete shooting pads upon which you will be periodically sitting or lying.

• Gloves (either shooting gloves or light work gloves).

Wear substantial shoes and "work clothes" or fatigues. You will be on the ground and get dusty or muddy.

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"Having a gun and thinking you are armed is like having a piano and thinking you are a musician"
------ Col. Jeff Cooper (U.S.M.C. Ret.)

This course is sponsored by the Firearms Instruction Research & Education (FIRE) Institute,
a Penna. nonprofit corporation.
Training is provided as a public service.
All students must be 18 years or older. Proof of no criminal history is required.

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