Way of the Gunfighter Pistol Hard Skills Phase 1

Way of the Gunfighter

Pistol Hard Skills

Phase 1

HARD SKILLS: Technical skills required for a job/profession.  Learned abilities acquired though training and experience.  Measurable and Quantifiable.

If you carry a gun as part of your profession or for personal protection this course is designed to give you the hard skills with the gun that you need to responsibly win a fight with a gun.  This is a shooting course focused on shooting skills.  Not tactics.

The course will begin with an installation of the Proctor Shooting Process that is the foundation that we will build everything else from.  The Process will introduce very simple foundational concepts that apply to performance in shooting and training to perform.  

In this course we will focus on core hard skills with the pistol and perform focused on exercises that will develop those hard skills and habits.  In order to actually train and walk away from the 2-day course with more ability we will focus on specific hard skills until a level of proficiency or training is reached then move to another hard skill.  

A strong focus of the course will be to achieve “accuracy with urgency”. Each hard skill is measurable and has an associated evaluation.  The evaluations will test a reasonable degree of accuracy with a reasonable amount of speed.  In short, we are training to win a fight with a gun against another person.  We are not shooting Bullseye and we are not shooting USPSA.  

Shooters will walk away from the course with a classification based on how they performed through the Hard Skill Evaluations.

This is the Phase 1 course and is not all inclusive of every Hard Skill required with a pistol.  This Phase 1 course is designed to develop hard skills necessary to responsibly win a fight with a pistol at distances up to 15 yards.  

TOPICS COVERED BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Proctor Shooting Process

Concepts vs technique

Repetition

Focused exercises

Take away work outs for dry fire and live fire

Evaluations

Visual processing speed

Movement/Body Mechanics and Articulation

Manipulations/Manual of Arms

Ranking/classification

Accuracy with urgency

Optimal equipment set up considerations

EQUIPMENT:

Pistol – recommended full sized to mid sized pistol. 5” to 4” gun, a glock 19 sized pistol would be the smallest pistol recommended for this course due to the amount of reps we will put in.  If you carry a smaller gun, bring it also and you can put some reps in with it after you have achieved the standards with a more shootable gun.  

Holster- OWB or IWB 

Sights – Iron sights or red dots are fine

3 magazines (more is fine) 

AMMO: 

In this course we will be putting in a lot of reps on the hard skills in order to actually train and develop proficiency and ability, that means you are going to shoot a lot.  Bring ammo-1500 rounds minimum.

PERSONAL ITEMS:  Standard range items apply such as eye and ear protection.  Bring anything else you need to sustain yourself and equipment for a day on the range.  Courses may be indoor or outdoor so plan accordingly.

CLASS TIMES are typically 9-4 with some variations.

ADMIN NOTES- after registration PLEASE READ- STUDENT INFORMATION