Training Goal:
This course is designed to teach students the essential manipulation and marksmanship fundamentals necessary to successfully operate a rifle in a defensive manner. Students will be exposed to marksmanship fundamentals such as trigger control, grip, stance, breath control, and sight alignment/picture. Students will learn how to rapidly acquire sights, and learn how to balance speed vs. adequate combat sight picture. Students will learn administrative, tactical, and emergency reloads. Students will learn remediation for common malfunctions. Students will learn recoil control, rhythm-based firing cadence control, and rapid transition between targets.
This course is not intended as a “first shots” course. Students should already possess a basic understanding of how their firearm works and basic safety rules.
8 hour course.
Teaching Objectives:
- Firearms Safety Fundamentals
- Safe Handling of Rifles
- Loading and Unloading Procedures
- Proper Grip
- Sight Picture and Sight Alignment
- Fundamentals of Rifle Marksmanship
- Fundamentals of Rifle Presentation
- Fundamentals of Reloads
- Malfunctions and Remediation
- Fundamentals of Recoil Control
- Fundamentals of Rapid Target Transitions
- Fundamentals of Rapid Fire
Required Equipment:
- Rifle (semi-automatic, auto-loading. No lever action, bolt action, or pump action rifles.)
- 300 rounds of rifle ammunition. (No green tip, penetrator, tracer, or armor-piercing ammunition allowed. This is a range rule from RPR.)
- 3x rifle magazines
- This course is structured around 15 round magazines, if your magazines don’t hold at least 15 rounds, please bring enough magazines to have at least 45 rounds loaded at one time.
- Rifle Sling
- 1 magazine holder
- Eye protection
- Ear protection (electronic preferred but not required)
- Outdoor/Hiking shoes
- Sturdy belt capable of holding pistol magazine holders and holster.
- Pants or shorts with belt loops.
- Lunch, snacks, and water.
Instructors:
Gravitas Protection Group instructors are Special Operations veterans with years of real world, training, and instructional experience.
