Cruel Hand Luke

Me too. Hope everything goes well Bob.

No registration needed, just show up and pay at class. It just makes it easier on me if folks give me a heads up that they are planning to attend to know how many targets and equipment I need to bring. Hope to see you there!

Real World Rifle Skills - Combative use of the rifle Date June 24 2017 Instructor : Randy Harris (https://suarezinternational.com/randy-harris/ ) Location:The Ridge in Dayton TN (http://www.theridgeshooting.com/index.html) Price $150 Cash or Check ($50 Deposit holds your spot) Time : 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM This class is a 1 day immersion level class that will work to bring your rifle handling and shooting skills up to speed . Whether you are looking to use the rifle for home defense, Police patrol, Military, or 3 Gun Competition, this class will improve your shooting and gun handling skills. With just a small amount of lecture time we will spend the majority of the day on the range honing skills with both dry fire drills and live fire. While there is no prerequisite for this class, students need to have a SOLID grasp of the fundamentals of firearm safety and be familiar enough with their rifle to safely load , fire ,and unload it. What to bring? Modern magazine fed semi auto rifle or pistol caliber carbine. Pistol. Ammo: Rifle 250 rds Pistol 50 rds Eye and Ear Protection and any other gear you want to bring like knee pads. Ancillary gear: Belt and holster and mag pouch for pistol , sling for rifle, at least 3 rifle mags, at least 2 pistol mags (or speed loaders if you use a revolver), and a way to carry rifle mags. This can be in your pockets, in belt mounted mag pouches, in a bag of some type or in a chest rig. This is not a contractor class so if you show up with hard armor and 18 magazines you'll be a little over dressed unless that is what you normally wear in your day job. Police officers/security personnel are encouraged to wear their duty gear. As a side note, if you have armor and want to wear it that is perfectly fine...but no whining if it gets hot. Use common sense on holster set up. If you are using a chest rig and or armor then NO AIWB (Appendix Inside the Waistband) unless you have a truly small chest rig and there is absolutely no conflict between the rig and the gun coming out of the holster cleanly. For safety sake I want no conflict between chest rig and holster when drawing the pistol . IWB or OWB belt is fine...as long as it is not impeded by a monstrously big chest rig. Drop leg holsters are fine. Just make sure you can safely get your pistol out of your holster without having to fight your chest rig for it. Some stuff we will cover.... SAFETY Combative use of the rifle (context of combative use vs competitive use) RULE #1 - Don't get shot! (use of cover and movement to keep from getting shot) Position Shooting to conform to available cover. Marksmanship - Quickly hit what you aim at whether standing, kneeling, prone or moving Use of APPROPRIATE sighting methods for the distances involved Clear malfunctions QUICKLY Keep it loaded (Both reactive and proactive reloads and why and when to use them) Transition from Rifle to Pistol (When , Why and How) Practical application of skills we learned For more info either PM me here at TGO or email me at Cruelhandluke2000@yahoo.com

This one is coming up in just about 3 weeks !!!

Only about 3 weeks to go!

TN / GA / AL Training Group On SATURDAY June 10 we will hold the first summer meeting for the TN/GA/AL Regional Suarez Int Training Group! Instructor: Tier 1 Suarez Int Staff Instructor Randy HarrisLocation: The usual place- Phillips/Edwards Farm 763 County Rd 332 Pisgah AL 35765 Time: 9AM CENTRAL time - 3PM CENTRAL timePrice: $60 - pay at class cash or check. What you need to bring: Pistol, pistol magazines and at least 200 rounds of ammo. Revolvers are welcome if you want to party like it is 1899. We will work on smoothing out our pistol skills and will shoot several challenging drills and work to be more competent and confident with the weapon we carry most...our pistol. Rifles are awesome but they are not always close by. The pistol is far more likely to be the weapon you will have in hand be it robbery, terrorism or whatever. This will give participants a chance to shoot some timed and scored drills and get a feel for where their skill level is and see where they can improve.

One week to go on this one!

Well that sucks. I'm guessing you've already contacted your card company and disputed the charges?

Just a quick reminder that this one is coming up the first weekend in June!

Just a few weeks out on this one. CRG is the class that put SI on the map and the class that covers the most likely encounters where people use pistols to defend themselves. There is a reason we call it our "flagship" course. Hope to see you there!

Working on a date now......will post it up as soon as it is finalized.

For those coming , in case you have trouble finding the location my # is 423 827 9133

And a quick reminder....the range is right where the time zones go from Eastern to Central. The range is on CENTRAL TIME....so if you get there expecting class to start at 10 eastern you will be an hour early.....

Coming up TOMORROW!!!

The next meeting of the TN GA AL Regional Training group will be held on Sunday April 9. It will be a RIFLE DAY ! So grab your rifle and your gear and come on out! Date: Sunday April 9 Time: 10AM to 3PM CENTRAL TIME. Price : $60 pay at class cash or check.Subject: Real World Rifle Skills (a study in robust manipulations and scoring fight stopping hits under stress) Equipment needed:A rifle. Any rifle is fine, but you'll be better off with a magazine fed semi auto with a couple of spare mags. But if you want to roll "Old School" with a lever gun or bolt gun you are more than welcome to join us. We'll be focusing on the zero to 75 yard distance and using steel targets for some drills so no green tip or AP ammo please. A pistol. Whatever you REALLY carry....preferably the way you really carry it. Ammo needed: 200 rds rifle (NO Green Tip or Armor Piercing ) 50 rds pistolLocation: The usual place .....763 CR 332 Pisgah AL 35765

Glad you finally got this project worked out. Any chance you'll be bringing it to the training day this Sunday?

And that was pretty well determined at bayonet point in 1865......

This one is coming up at the end of this month!

One week to go!

Just a couple of weeks to go!

ONE WEEK TO GO!!!!!

COMING UP THIS SUNDAY!!!!!

Quick reminder that this one is coming up in about 3 weeks!

There's really 2 different questions here. "What accuracy standards are we training to be able to achieve?"... and ..."what accuracy standard do we train with to achieve that?". For me personally (and professionally) we try to direct everything into the diaphragm to neck area (nipple to neck triangle) and/or the face (eyebrow to nose triangle) and that runs the complete circumference of the target ....front, back, sides. Those are vital zones and areas most likely to MAKE people stop what they are doing....not just hurt them and leave the decision to stop up to them. I'm not at all saying other areas don't hurt...I'm saying all we know about anatomy and biology leads us to those two areas being the most likely to stop people. As to standards to practice? I like smaller targets. The 3" shoot n see" targets are what I normally use in class as the "optimum" with an 8.5x11" sheet of paper behind it as "still acceptable". By using that we focus on a smaller area and are then most likely to keep even our "misses" in the vital zone area or at a minimum in the torso / minus 1 zone on an IDPA target or C zone of an IPSC target. In my own practice I personally use the pasters from the "shoot n see" targets as my target to aim for and anything within a hand span of that is acceptable which gives about a 3/4" target and a 6" Acceptable Zone. For distance (15yds to 50yds or farther?) I use a 45% IPSC steel target which pretty much covers diaphragm to neck or chin and inside the nipples on most people. By shooting smaller targets you get a better grasp of sight alignment and trigger control and can apply the same skills to hit at much farther distances. After a day of shooting at 3" targets at 5 yards a torso sized target at 25 is easy.

THIS ONE IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! Many of us spend a good deal of time in our vehicle sitting in line for the ATM or at stop lights or in parking lots. So it makes sense to be not only prepared to deal with carjacking but to also train for it. This class fills in some of those gaps in training and gives you the opportunity to shoot from your own vehicle so that if you ever do have to do it for real you will not be having to figure it out on the fly. Hope to see you there!