Pistol Essentials and BEYOND is The Complete Combatant's 2-day course that starts with basics and then moves BEYOND!
FUNDAMENTALS are the key to everything! Pistol Essentials is designed to introduce you to defensive shooting and help improve your skills. In this class, you will learn the importance of stance, grip, sights, follow through and trigger through dry practice and live fire. We will practice drawing from your holster during dry fire and live fire when applicable. We will cover shooting from common positions seen in defensive shooting with a higher level of accuracy. Pistol Essentials will teach you how to practice, how to measure your skill and how to TEST yourself.
Fireside Chats
BoondocksFTA™ Fireside Chats
In 2020, Boondocks FTA™ began hosting a series of free seminars (chats). Topics are on a variety of subjects including Gun Rights, Concealed Carry, Gun Myths, Active Shooter, and more. For this summer, we're offering free Church Security Seminars.
This course is for the shooter who has a solid base of essential skills but now must learn how to use them in the pandemonium of armed conflict. It will focus on “movement with purpose” as history has shown combatants seldom stand still when under fire. Movement is more than just short lateral steps as many demonstrate, it is moving explosively and dynamically, planting quickly and shooting accurately to stop the threat. Lateral, diagonal, forward and rearward movement will be demonstrated and drilled. Disengagement and movement in an around innocent people, who are thereby happenstance alone, will be emphasized. Strong emphasis will also be placed on being able to stop quickly, shoot accurately and instantly move again. This is a physical course of instruction, but one that will help you PREVAIL in a pistol fight.
Massad Ayoob
MAG20 Classroom - Armed Citizen’s Rules of Engagement
A two-day, 20-hour immersion course in rules of engagement for armed law-abiding private citizens, emphasizing legal issues, tactical issues, and aftermath management. Topics will include interacting with suspects, witnesses, responding police officers…threat recognition and mind-set…management of social and psychological aftermath after having had to use lethal force in defense of self or others…and preparing beforehand for legal repercussions and minimizing exposure to them. Situations in the home, at the place of business, or “on the street” will all be covered.
When: Thursday, March 25- Friday, March 26, 2021 Cost: $500
Prerequisite: none
Massad Ayoob Group MAG20 – Live Fire is a two day, 20-hour immersion course in the use of the defensive handgun under extreme stress. Draw from concealment, two-handed stances, shooting from cover, one-handed stances with either hand, speed reloading, and more are taught with an overall emphasis on fast, accurate shot placement. The course will culminate with a police-style qualification course. Estimated ammo count: 500 rounds.
When:Saturday, March 27- Sunday, March 28, 2021 Cost: $500
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of firearms safety.
This is an intense, four-day, 40-hour immersion course in the “rules of engagement” for armed law-abiding private citizens. The course emphasizes legal issues, tactical issues, and aftermath management. Topics will include interacting with suspects, witnesses, responding police officers, threat recognition and mind-set, and the management of the social and psychological aftermath of having to use lethal force in defense of self or others. Also covered is preparing beforehand for legal repercussions and minimizing your exposure to them. Situations in the home, at the place of business, or “on the street” will all be covered. Range work will include instruction in the use of the defensive handgun under extreme stress. Drawing from concealment, two-handed stances, shooting from cover, one-handed stances with either hand, speed reloading, and more are taught with an overall emphasis on fast, accurate shot placement. The course will culminate with a written examination covering the classroom topics and a police-style handgun qualification course. This course is a blending of MAG 20 / Classroom and MAG 20 / Live Fire but is taught over 4 days. Be prepared to shoot on the first day.
When:Thursday, March 25- Sunday, March 28, 2021 Cost: $1,000
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of firearms safety.
October 10 & 11, 2020
In 2020, Boondocks FTA™ began hosting a series of free seminars (chats). Topics are on a variety of subjects including Gun Rights, Concealed Carry, Gun Myths, Active Shooter, and more. For this summer, we're offering free Church Security Seminars.
March 6-7, 2021
MAG20 Classroom - Armed Citizen’s Rules of Engagement