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  The various members of our team have been involved with firearms professionally for anywhere from 15 - 25+ years, and many of our mentors have a great deal more experience than that. That collective experience has shaped our entire curriculum and training methodology, and has helped us reach a point where we can effectively enhance student performance in condensed time frames.    Using one of our instructors as an example, Ben was brought into the team for his general rifle marksmanship, aerial marksmanship, and gunsmithing abilities, but his pistol experience was almost non-existent.  After 2 instructor development sessions, totalling...

  Most shooters would have come across various types of marksmanship fault correction charts, such as the customary pistol correction chart shown below.  They come in various styles, and can be found for both pistols and rifles, but what they all have in common is that they attempt to identify what firing faults are occurring based on shot placement.  If the rounds are here you must be doing this...right?  Wrong!      In reality these charts are of negligible benefit to both shooter and coach for most real world shooting applications. There is no one size fits all approach to coaching...

“If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent ... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is." - David Dunning While driving to the range one day, a good friend was speaking to us about various firearms training topics.  This friend is highly skilled and very knowledgeable about the subject and he explained that over several years he had come to the realisation that much of the information that he takes for granted is in fact alien to many shooters and firearms instructors.  That what he...

A few years back, strength coach Mark Rippetoe wrote a great article called “The Biggest Training Fallacy of All.”  The article contained an anecdote about tanning and an individual laying out in the sun for fifteen minutes on their back and fifteen minutes on their front for a week, after which they had turned a nice shade of brown.  Heartened by the results the individual committed to continuing this tanning regimen by laying out for fifteen minutes on their back and fifteen minutes on their front for a full month.  The million-dollar question is, what shade of brown is that...

  A good firearms instructor is many things; a teacher, coach, mentor, leader, problem solver and a perpetual student.  By teaching the right things, in the right way a good instructor can bring out the best in their students and ensure their continued development. But not all methods of firearms instruction are helpful and, unfortunately, there are several methods that will ultimately stifle performance.  This article will outline some of the most common characteristics of poor instruction. Dogma The firearms training community is rife with throwaway lines, myths and legends.  Some have their basis in fact but over time their...