Lone Star Medics - Caleb Causey - Medicine X
2025-11-15 08:00 - 2025-11-16 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MeadHall Range, 2181 S Blackberry Dr, Mcloud, OK, 74851, United States
Some are calling it “Ambush Medicine”! What it’s called is not as important as what you’ll learn over the next two days. The next 16 hours will be spent 90% of the time on the range… shooting, moving, communicating and slappin’ tourniquets on.
Each student will learn how and more importantly when to care for the injured during and immediately following a violent attack. This will be a fast-paced and physically demanding course. Students will apply the lessons learned during multiple live-fire scenarios involving one-person, two-person, and four-person teams. Students will be provided multiple tactical medical products during class and scenarios in order to conduct their own personal testing and evaluation of the products. These live-fire scenarios will require students to maximize both their rifle and pistol.
Some of the subjects covered:
– Principles of tactical medicine
– Patient movement techniques for short and long distances
– Medical contingency planning
– Wound patterns of violent attacks
– Rapid trauma assessments
– Modern hemorrhage control techniques
– Thoracic injuries and treatments, blunt and penetrating injuries
– Thermal burns and blast injuries
– Identify and treat for shock
– Medical equipment selection
– Casualty collection points
– Evacuation considerations
Prerequisites:
Each student must fall into one of the following categories in order to participate in any “Medicine X” coursework:
1. Be current military or law enforcement.
OR
2. Must have already completed formal defensive firearms training from an approved instructor/company. You may be asked to provide proof of training with application.
AND
4. Must be 18 years or older and legally allowed to own/possess a firearm.
OR
3. NON-Shooting students may attend and participate in the class, however they will not be allowed to handle any firearm at any time during class/scenarios. These non-shooting participants must be 18 years of age or older and accompanied with another student who meets one of the above prerequisites that is enrolled in the same class. (Basically, if your buddy is into shooting and you’re not, you can still come take the class together. You just can’t handle a firearm.)
Note: There is a $30/day/person facility fee due at signin the first day of class.

Pistol-training.com Simon Golob On Demand Performance
2026-05-15 08:00 - 2026-05-16 17:00
Pistol-Training.com’s On-Demand Performance (ODP) is a 2-day class that focuses equally on technical excellence and cold performance

Pistol-Training.com’s flagship course, On-Demand Performance (ODP) is a 2-day class that focuses equally on technical excellence and cold performance. Cold performance is performance without any kind of warmup and is the only kind of performance that matters for most law enforcement and civilians. ODP offers daily/weekly/monthly training practices to build your cold ability and allow you to perform as well as possible. Students are tested to determine their current ability, and training is tailored to individual needs. The prerequisites for the class include the ability to draw and re-holster safely and students must pass a pre-test of five shots on a 3×5 card at 5 yards, with no time limit. The course requires a minimum of 1000 rounds of quality training ammo for your pistol and 4 magazines. Red dots or irons are equally welcome. Holsters may be duty holsters, IWB or OWB, strong-side or appendix however, unconcealed gun/holster combos are highly discouraged. Students also have the opportunity to test for the FAST coin if they wish.
Requirements:

Mentally and physically sound

1000 rounds (minimum)

Concealed pistol/holster (9mm or larger unless discussed in advance)

4 magazines and 1 magazine pouch (minimum)

Ability to draw and reholster safely as well as hit a 3×5 card at 5 yards every time

Weather-appropriate clothing and comfort/sustainment items

Completed waiver

FAQ:
Q: If I bring more than 1000 rounds of ammo will I be able to shoot more?
A: Yes! Some drills allow for more flexibility than others but much of the shooting will be at your own pace. Which also means that some people will shoot a little less than others.
Q: Why do you prefer to train with concealed guns instead of open carry holsters?
A: Anyone who is serious about carrying a pistol must be able to shoot effectively from concealment. Training from concealment strongly carries over to open carry, but the opposite is simply not true.
Q: If I can’t meet the prerequisites what will happen?
A: If you are unsafe, you will be unable to continue training. Safety requirements will be clearly laid out at the beginning of the day and you will have the chance to practice them. If you can’t hit a 3×5 card at 5 yards, you don’t yet have the skill needed to take advantage of this training. You are welcome to stay and shoot, but we will not take class time away from the students who do meet the requirements in order to try and get you up to speed. A second attempt to pass the test may be given as appropriate.

Citizens Safety Academy - CSA Gateway Instructor Certification
2026-06-06 08:00 - 2026-06-07 18:00
Course Overview
This course teaches experienced shooters how to teach a basic defense-oriented pistol curriculum in the paradigm of “gateway instruction” developed by Citizens Safety Academy.
Course Details
There are many instructor certification courses available, but most suffer from at least one of three common shortcomings. First, they often spend too much time on shooting and not enough time on teaching how to teach. Second, they often focus on teaching intermediate-level shooters without enough attention paid to the nuances of managing a class full of brand-new, first-time shooters. Third, many instructor courses tend to ignore the cultural and demographic dynamics of today’s market of firearms trainees.
With the recent explosion of gun purchases by urbanites, millennials, trauma victims, and others who don’t fit the traditional stereotypes of gun ownership, firearms trainers must adapt to the rapidly-evolving 21st Century market. CSA developed what we call the “gateway” instructional model in an effort to fill those gaps in the training community.
Instructor candidates will learn and demonstrate organizational and teaching skills via participation in practical exercises during the course (including leading a line of live-fire shooters through a course of fire). Candidates will also have to pass an instructor certification examination and a shooting qualification course of fire. The course also includes an Instructor’s Guide that participants can take home with them for future reference.
Topics Covered
Every class is a little different, so we often have to make adjustments based on time and facility constraints; but our standard Gateway Instructor curriculum includes the following:

Adult learning theory
Effective communication skills / public speaking
Depoliticizing instruction, content, and facilities
Designing and using effective training aids
Connecting with inexperienced, fearful, and non-traditional students
Making classroom lectures interactive and engaging
Effective use of multi-media in the modern classroom
Concepts from the pivotal text, “Telling Ain’t Training,” by Keeps and Stolovitch
Classroom management
Range management
Teaching basic principles of lawful defensive force
Managing students with past trauma or emotional triggers
Effective assessment / written examination design
How to control and command a firing line
The “Less is More” principle
Effective range commands
Student-centric range exercises
Differentiating between skill drills and performance drills
Managing students with physical limitations or disabilities
Teaching both left- and right-handed students
Managing firing lines with revolvers and semi-autos of different action types
Effective use of assistant instructors
Safety protocols and emergency procedures
And much more!

Prerequisites
Instructor candidates must possess and demonstrate a solid background in firearm safety and shooting skills acquired through previous firearm training and/or previous shooting experience. Candidates will be required to demonstrate how to safely handle, load, and unload both a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol.
What is “gateway instruction”?
When we say “gateway instruction,” we mean true entry-level content, designed for students who overcome boundaries, obstacles, social disincentives, or other adverse odds to learn to shoot for the first time. We have found that many “beginner” classes on the market today are often weighed down by assumptions and misperceptions about what new shooters typically bring to the table. These classes often take for granted that every student has the same opinion about guns, everyone has the same understanding of gun safety, and everyone generally understands how guns work and what they’re used for. But that’s not the case.
At CSA, we take a different approach. Gateway instruction levels the playing field by allowing all students to enter the firearms training world without any pressure to know more than they know or to be someone other than who they are. One of the many benefits of this teaching technique (and the reason we call it “gateway instruction”) is that it increases the chances of students investing in more training and becoming members of the training community rather than just visitors or sightseers. We hope to be an “on-ramp” for those who might otherwise see themselves as outsiders to the gun world.

Cougar Mountain Solutions - Erick Gelhaus - Problem Solving Pistol
2026-11-08 09:00 - 18:00
This one-day class takes your existing handgun skills and combines them with visual processing and decision making to solve a variety of Don’t Shoot/Shoot problems. You will be exposed to a variety of targets and stimulus.

ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Experience with your pistol-mounted optic, including acquiring your sights, delivering an accurate hit under time constraints, and accuracy sufficient to shoot Dyal’s 5 Yard Round-Up clean with a 4-second par time for each stage.
Additionally, the completion of a defensive handgun class that includes holster work/reloads/stoppages, as well as an understanding of how to practically apply the 4 Safety Rules, specifically Rule #3, without endangering a neighboring shooter.

TOPICS COVERED
After a classroom discussion on human factors and a warm-up, the class will begin working through a variety of drills to cover the subject matter. These will include:

increasing breadth and depth of vision;

visual attention;

response to stimulus;

cognitive load;

EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES
By the day’s end, you will have applied your decision-making and shooting skills to solving Don’t Shoot/Shoot problems while managing the impact of perception and visual processing. Your skills in accuracy, manipulation, and mechanics will be incorporated into each iteration.

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Note-taking material

Eye and ear protection

A reliable mid- or full-size pistol with or w/out optics (loaners MAY be available with enough notice)

Appropriate holster, mag pouches, and belt;

3 plus magazines

Ten (10) quality dummy rounds for your handgun, caliber appropriate

If using optics, an extra battery and the tool to adjust, change it

Please bring your lunch, Scooby snacks, caffeine, and—of course—water. We will break, but the less time we devote to lunch, the more time we can spend with your mind and pistol.

Appropriate range attire for the environment, weather conditions

Ammunition: 250 rounds of reliable pistol ammunition

COST

$250 plus range fees of $30 due at signin

SCHEDULE

9am – 6pm
