Sentinel Concepts - Steve Fisher - Critical Carbine
2026-05-30 08:00 - 2026-05-31 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MeadHall Range, 2181 S Blackberry Dr, Mcloud, OK, 74851, United States
This 2 day course expands on the 1 day version of the Carbine Diagnostic course to include more drills and skills on use of the carbine. Including positional work, shooting on the move, and various other exercises to get the shooter to explore the capabilities and abilities of the gear they chose and themselves.
THIS COURSE WILL THOROUGHLY COVER
Safety brief & medical plan
Different optics and accessories
Effective shooting stance
Proper weapon grip
Recoil control
Timed graded quals and drills
Sight picture red dots and LPVO optics
Proper zero and confirmation of them. (range dependent on distance)
Use of the sling for supported shooting
Use of body supported shooting positions
Trigger control
Reloads
Malfunctions clearing
Different shooting positions
Carbine ready positions
and more…
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT
A functional and practical carbine (AK variants and AR type pistols allowed)
If available, a spare carbine is also an excellent idea
Ammunition: 400 rounds minimum for 1 day courses. 800 rounds minimum for 2 day courses. (extra is always a good thing)
Electronic hearing protection is preferred
Wrap around style eye protection
A billed ball cap
Sling (optional)
IFAK and/or tourniquet is REQUIRED
Food and water/energy drinks for the day plan on staying at the range to eat we do not take hour lunch breaks 30 min max given some locations do not have food close by
PLEASE ARRIVE TO CLASS WITH MAGAZINES ALREADY LOADED.
Individual first aid kit and tourniquet
REGISTRATION POLICIES & TERMS
STRICT NO VIDEO POLICY! YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE COURSE!
Refunds will be issued if Sentinel Concepts cancels the course – No Exceptions.
If you can not attend the class you registered for due to work, family, or medical reasons we will make all attempts to get you into a class within one calendar year of the original class date.
Range fees due at time of class, range costs are typically $25 to $50 per day based on host. Please be prepared to pay these fees day of.
Course Enrollment MinimumsEnrollment minimums must be met no later than 3 weeks prior to the class start date.
Cancellation NoticesPlease be sure to check your email, including your spam/junk folders, within that time frame for any notifications about cancellations.
UpdatesStay updated by checking our social media accounts, or feel free to reach out to Steve via email for any questions.

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.

Tactical Anatomy Systems - Shooting with Xray Vision Instructor course
2026-06-13 08:00 - 2026-06-14 17:00
Shooting WIth Xray Vision – Instructor is not just another shooting class. It is a true instructor class, designed by instructors for experienced instructors. Your instructors, Dr. James Williams and Chuck Haggard, are nationally recognized teachers who have over half a century of teaching experience between them. This class is designed to give the instructor-student new tools to use in his or her own classes after you leave.
Dr. Williams has been an ER, ICU, and trauma physician for the past 35 years. He served as a police medical officer and SWAT team medic in Wisconsin until 2011, and has been instructing the Tactical Anatomy curriculum since 2004. He was a regular instructor at ILEETA and IALEFI for many years, and was keynote speaker for the IALEFI international conference in 2009. He has been conducting SXRV-Instructor on an occasional basis since 2004, generally reserving it for law enforcement groups only until 2011, when he opened it to non-sworn personnel. The class was not held from 2014 until 2022, but because of persistent demand Dr. Williams has revived and revitalized the course for modern instructors.
Dr. Williams has plans to retire from medical practice by 2028, and will likely retire from active teaching then as well. As such, the 2026 class will probably be the second-last Shooting With Xray Vision class.
Chuck Haggard retired from active police work several years ago but returned to it almost immediately and continues as an active cop today. He has been teaching firearms and tactics from his vast experience in the field for over 25 years. Chuck is particularly well known for his work in teaching terminal ballistics and evaluating effectiveness of specific ammunition exemplars. He has been recognized for his instructional excellence by several national organizations. He has been one of the SXRV-I instructors since we revived the course in 2022 and we are delighted to have him back again this year.
Attendees will be exposed to a vast body of knowledge that the instructors have studied for many years. Topics to be covered in the class include the historical context of this field; the realities of gunfights and other armed conflicts; practical ballistics, including external and terminal ballistics; medical realities of human anatomy and physiology; gunshot wounds/wounding and incapacitation; modeling of 3-dimensional anatomy in time and space; adult learning realities; instructional tips and tricks for teaching realistic ballistic targeting to students.
Attendees should expect this to be an actual 16-hour class. You will be challenged to learn as you have rarely been challenged before.

Immediate Action Combatives - Cecil Burch - Grappling for Self- Defense in a Weapons Based Environment
2026-06-19 19:00 - 2026-06-21 19:00
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Real World Application of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, and Boxing in a Weapon-Based-Environment (WBE)
Contrary to popular belief, many empty hand fights and those involving weapons, end up entangled, either standing or on the ground. No amount of pontificating or self-proclaimed “expert” posturing will change this simple fact. If you ignore this reality, you may very well find yourself in a situation you cannot handle with disastrous consequences. This course is designed to give the layman a realistic and functional set of concepts, techniques, methodologies, training drills and experiences that will prepare them for a worst case grappling scenario. All techniques and concepts are high percentile applications which span a wide spectrum of confrontations. Training consists of presentation, drilling and Force-On-Force evolutions providing attendees with immediate feedback regarding the efficacy of the skills learned. The goal of this course is not to create a “ground fighter” or grappler. The objective is to provide attendees who have limited training time and resources with solid ground survival and escape fundamentals geared toward the increasingly violent weapon based environments they may live, work and/or travel within. And all techniques/concepts are from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, and Boxing and are combat proven over the past 80 years by thousands and thousands of practitioners, including the U.S. Army.
• These methods are for everyone regardless of physical condition – young, old, male, female, athlete or not – You DO NOT have to be a professional fighter to perform at a functional level. This will be a class about physical training, but it is NOT boot camp. Participants may go at the pace that is comfortable for them, while trying to push the envelope of their own individual performance.
• Requirements: loose, comfortable but durable clothes, mouthpiece, cup, notebook, and an open mind. Boxing or MMA gloves are strongly encouraged, but are not mandatory. Blue Guns and matched holsters, and training knives are a good idea, but there will be loaners available.
Surviving/defending/escaping from the bottom
Getting back to your feet / staying upright
Defending against strikes on the ground or clinch
Denying the attacker weapon access – understanding technique, positional hierarchy, and timing
Proper role of “dirty tactics”
Multiple opponents
Essential training principles, methods, and drills
Underlying concepts and mindset for the clinch in a self-defense context
Dealing with the sucker punch/ambush
Fundamentals of the clinch
Controlling the entanglement
Disengaging and making distance for escape, weapons access or orientation reset
Performance coaching and troubleshooting
Structuring and balancing your training for a real world lifestyle
About Cecil Burch
Cecil Burch has been training functional Martial Arts for over forty years. He has studied many different arts and systems and has held numerous teaching credentials in a number of them, including multiple Filipino, Indonesian, modern eclectic street fighting/combatives arts, and many of the combat sports.
While he got his first training in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu in 1989 and spent time at Rickson Gracie’s gym in 1993, he began a dedicated study in 1994 with Megaton Dias. Cecil is currently a 3rd degree black belt under Megaton and has competed extensively, including the 2015 Pan-American Championships (silver medal – black belt), 2013 Masters World Championships (bronze medal as black belt), etc.
Cecil has also been a firearms enthusiast all his life. He went through his first NRA course at the age of twelve, and shot competitive skeet leagues. In 1987 he took the General Pistol class at Gunsite under Jeff Cooper and Louis Awerbuck, and he has trained extensively with SouthNarc in multiple classes (including assisting Craig in many of them), Larry Vickers, Mike Pannone, Ernest Langdon, Tom Givens, and Pat McNamara, among others. He has also competed in many different types of firearm competitions.
Cecil has travelled extensively and conducted seminars across the U.S. as well as internationally and has been a featured presenter at many tactical/defense oriented conferences including many times at Rangemaster Polite Society Conference and has worked extensively with Law Enforcement officers, Federal Air Marshals, military special operation troops, and private citizens on the functional utilization of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, boxing, and clinch work in close quarters combat and how they can be integrated with a weapons based environment

There is a $75 range fee for the three days payable to Meadhall on Friday at the beginning of the course

Full Spectrum Shotgun - Cox, Roth, Willis
2026-10-03 09:00 - 2026-10-04 17:00
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Join us for this break through course taught by three active members of the shotgun community, and best friends, joining forces to deliver a content rich shotgun training experience for everyone! Zach Cox of Train With Zach, Adam Roth the creative visionary and founder of Aridus Industries, and Jonathan Willis of Gunset Training Group and Tactical Defense Institute, have combined their teaching styles and individual specialties to create this one of a kind, two day training experience.
ABOUT THE COURSE
This two day course will “push and pull” you on your journey with shotguns. We will be working on the ins and outs of the shotgun to better prepare participants for any application, but most specifically, the home defense context. You will leave better prepared to protect your loved ones and yourself, whatever your world of work might be.
Topics Covered:
Shotgun Control
Manipulations (loading, feeding, emergency reloads, etc)
Shotgun “Applications” (Situational specific shooting techniques)
Shotgun Metrics
Unconventional Shooting Positions
Time Skills Events
90 minute Stop The Bleed certification

WHAT TO BRING:
12 or 20 pump or semi-automatic shotgun w/ side saddle shell carrier (completely unloaded)
350 Rounds of 2 3/4 birdshot. (NO STEEL SHOT)
Eye and ear protection
Appropriate clothing for the weather and closed toed shoes.
Pen and paper for note taking
Hydration, snacks, lunches should be packed for both days to be eaten on site, any item of convenience while on range.
Knee pads (May be helpful during a short block of instruction)
Folding Chair
PREREQUISITES:
Good Attitude and Open Mind
Students Must Have a Solid Understanding of Safe Gun Handling and Proper Range Etiquette
ALL students must have a solid understanding of the basic operation of their chosen firearm for this course.
PLEASE CONTACT ANY OF THE INSTRUCTORS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE GEAR OR A GUN. WE WILL MAKE RENTALS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE REQUISITE EQUIPMENT.
*NOTE – A $60 Range Fee will be paid at the beginning of the course.

Sentinel Concepts - Steve Fisher - Critical Handgun
2026-10-24 08:00 - 17:00
THIS CLASS WILL THOROUGHLY COVER
Safety Plan
Medical Brief
Effective shooting positions / ready positions
Importance of Grip
Recoil control
One handed shooting
Distance shooting
Movement Drills
Positional shooting
Multiple target drills
(Irons & RDS) use
Reloads
Malfunctions
Timed graded drills
and more…
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT
A functional firearm chambered in any centerfire caliber based on the course you have selected carbine or pistol
Ammunition: 400 rounds minimum for 1 day courses. 800 rounds minimum for 2 day courses. (extra is always a good thing)
Quality holster and belt for handgun courses
Magazine pouch and or pockets are suitable
6 magazines minimum for handgun courses (students with single stack pistols should have twice that)
Electronic hearing protection is preferred
Knee pads
Spare batteries for lights, lasers, optics, and ear pro
Food and water/energy drinks for the day plan on staying at the range to eat we do not take hour lunch breaks 30 min max given some locations do not have food close by
PLEASE ARRIVE TO CLASS WITH MAGAZINES ALREADY LOADED.
IFAK and/or tourniquet is REQUIRED
Black sharpie marker
Nice to have list: Chair, sunshade canopy, table, bug spray, sun block
REGISTRATION POLICIES & TERMS
STRICT NO VIDEO POLICY! YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE COURSE!
Refunds will be issued if Sentinel Concepts cancels the course – No Exceptions.
If you can not attend the class you registered for due to work, family, or medical reasons we will make all attempts to get you into a class within one calendar year of the original class date.
Range fees due at time of class, range costs are typically $25 to $50 per day based on host. Please be prepared to pay these fees day of.
Course Enrollment MinimumsEnrollment minimums must be met no later than 3 weeks prior to the class start date.
Cancellation NoticesPlease be sure to check your email, including your spam/junk folders, within that time frame for any notifications about cancellations.
UpdatesStay updated by checking our social media accounts, or feel free to reach out to Steve via email for any questions.

Sentinel Concepts - Steve Fisher - Critical Shotgun
2026-10-25 08:00 - 17:00
This course pick up where practical shotgun ended. We will explore the use of slugs and proper zeros of irons and red dots sights, and extend range use of buckshot. As well as shooting on the move and alternate firing positions and target transitions and shooting on the move.
THE CLASS WILL THOROUGHLY COVER
Safety brief & medical plan
Use of barricades
Different optics and accessories
Effective shooting stance
Recoil control
Sight picture using magnified and or electronic optics
Proper zero and confirmation of them. (Range dependent on distance)
Use of the sling for supported shooting
Use of body supported shooting positions
Trigger control
Different shooting moment drills
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT
A functional and practical shotgun chambered in 12 or 20 gauge
Hearing protection, electronic is preferred
Wrap around style eye protection
IFAK and/or tourniquet
If available, a spare weapon system is also an excellent idea
A sling (optional)
Properly fitted shooting gloves
A minimum of 150 rounds of birdshot (no steel shot), 50 rounds of buckshot, and 35 slugs
A cleaning kit and tools that are compatible with the weapon system(s)
Handheld flashlight and or weapons mounted light
A black sharpie marker
Individual first aid kit and tourniquet
REGISTRATION POLICIES & TERMS
STRICT NO VIDEO POLICY! YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE COURSE!
Refunds will be issued if Sentinel Concepts cancels the course – No Exceptions.
If you can not attend the class you registered for due to work, family, or medical reasons we will make all attempts to get you into a class within one calendar year of the original class date.
Range fees due at time of class, range costs are typically $25 to $50 per day based on host. Please be prepared to pay these fees day of.
Course Enrollment MinimumsEnrollment minimums must be met no later than 3 weeks prior to the class start date.
Cancellation NoticesPlease be sure to check your email, including your spam/junk folders, within that time frame for any notifications about cancellations.
UpdatesStay updated by checking our social media accounts, or feel free to reach out to Steve via email for any questions.

Cougar Mountain Solutions - Erick Gelhaus - Low Light Application Carbine
2026-11-06 13:00 - 22:00
Take your existing skills with a carbine and apply them to working in low light – regardless of your job. We will work with handheld and weapon-mounted lights.

TOPICS COVERED

Safety and Human Factors relating to Low Light

Selection and mounting of Weapon-Mounted Lights;

Ready positions and searching;

Switchology: How to manipulate and activate your lights.

Employing those lights in a variety of positions, around cover. Integrating the handgun from the holster;

Judgment and decision-making will also be addressed.

EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES
By the session’s end, you will be able to utilize your carbine more effectively in low-light environments for identification, communication, and engagement, with an emphasis on informed decision-making.

ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
You should be an intermediate shooter with experience applying the 4 Safety Rules practically while working with your firearm, ensuring you do not endanger those around you. Be comfortable manipulating your firearm’s safeties as well as loading, unloading, and clearing stoppages while working from a variety of ready positions.

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Note-taking material

Clear eye/safety glasses and electronic ear protection;

Carbine (rifle caliber or PCC) with a Weapon-Mounted Light and a sling, plus three reliable magazines;

Hand-held defensive/duty light;

Mid or Full-size handgun with two magazines, a pistol-mounted light is optional;

Appropriate belt, holster, and mag pouches;

Extra batteries for all lights, optics;

Please bring your snacks, caffeine, and water. We will break for dinner.

Appropriate range attire for the environment, weather.

Ammunition: 250 rounds of reliable carbine ammunition and 25 rounds for your pistol;

COST

$250 plus range fee of $30 due at signin

SCHEDULE

1 pm – 10 pm

Cougar Mountain Solutions - Erick Gelhaus - Low Light Application Pistol
2026-11-07 13:00 - 22:00
This class focuses on applying your existing handgun skills in a low-light environment, utilizing both handheld and weapon-mounted lights.

TOPICS COVERED

Selection of handheld and weapon-mounted lights;

How to manipulate and activate your lights;

Integrating lights with your handgun from ready positions and your holster;

Transitioning from a hand-held to a weapon-mounted light;

Working with lights around cover;

Judgment and decision-making will also be addressed.

EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES
By the session’s end, you will be able to utilize your handheld and weapon-mounted lights more effectively for navigation, identification, communication, and engagement, with an emphasis on informed decision-making.

ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Experience applying the Four Safety Rules practically while working with your firearm, ensuring you do not endanger your neighbor. You must be able to draw your handgun from the holster as well as loading, unload, and clear any common stoppages. Be comfortable working from multiple ready positions.

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Note-taking material

Clear eye/safety glasses and electronic ear protection

A reliable mid to full-size pistol

Appropriate belt, holster, and mag pouches

Minimum of a handheld defensive/duty light and a weapon-mounted light is also suggested;

3 magazines

Extra batteries for all lights and optics

Please bring your snacks, caffeine, and, of course, water. We will break for dinner

Appropriate range of attire for the environment and weather.

Ammunition: 250 rounds of reliable pistol ammunition

SCHEDULE

1 pm – 10 pm

COST

$250 plus range fee of $30 due at signin

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
