CARBINE-1 Course
(Open Enrollment)

When: May 2, 2015 (Saturday)

Where: Our home based facility in Princeton, MN

Cost: $200 (Register online at our website)

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This course will be taught by the Staff of Defensive Edge and SLR15 Rifles, who have been featured in SWAT Magazine, Guns & Ammo Magazine Tactical Guns & Gear Annual, Shooting Times, Gun Digest, Guns & Weapons For Law Enforcement Magazine, and Precision Rifle Magazine. Our courses has been taught for over a decade all over the country.

The carbine Rifle is becoming more popular in the urban setting due to its great accuracy capabilities, and generally it is easier to shoot for most people due to its lack of recoil. This lack of recoil, combined with greater accuracy, make it a favorite among shooters. At the end of this course attendees will have confidence that they can shoot at something and hit it, and not be intimidated by recoil. Students will learn proper foundations, maintenance, employment, ammunition selection, mechanics and manipulation. This course is designed to hone basic fundamentals while teaching individual tactics and techniques. Students will deal with a multitude of different targets at varying distances, and learn to shoot from cover and concealment from multiple shooting positions. Multiple targets will challenge even the experienced operator. Proficiency will be stressed, as well as reloads, and malfunction clearing.


STUDENT MATERIALS:(Minimum Suggestion)
1. Tactical carbine Rifle & 3-magazines (AR15/M16, Mini-14/30, HK's, Etc)
Note: .22LR Carbines are acceptable for last half of the class, you will need a rifle caliber carbine for the first half.
2. 400 rounds of Carbine Ammunition "Minimum" (Half can be .22LR, but the other half will need to be rifle caliber if using both types of ammo)
3. Handgun with holster & 50 rounds handgun ammunition.  The handgun must be of quality make, No Jennings, Highpoint, Taurus (Beretta 92 copies), etc.  Holster must be of quality make on the hip or thigh.  No Crossdraw or chest rigs will be allowed.  No cheap nylon type (Uncle Mikes type) holsters allowed.  If you have questions on the handgun or holster, please contact us before the course.      
4. Protective Ear and Eye Wear (Electronic Earphones are recommended so you can hear during shooting)
5. Hat, Sun block, Rain Gear, Bug spray
6. Knee & Elbow pads are recommended, as you will be on the ground during shooting positions.
7. Water, Gatorade, Snacks & Lunch (Plan on eating at the range during a short lunch break, and snacking all day)
8. Lawn Chair

CLASSROOM:
Nomenclature and Functions.
Sights and Sight Picture.
Basic Maintenance and Advanced Maintenance.
Basic Ballistic Issues

RANGE:
Fitting and Uses of the Sling. (single-point, 2-point, and 3-point)
Three-Point Sling:
Backpack Carry
Suitcase Carry
Tactical Carry:
Low Muzzle Frontal
High Muzzle Frontal
Patrol Carry:
Behind the Backup Weapon
Left-hand & Right-hand Fitting
Proper Fitting (tension)
Military (Hasty)
African (Weakside) Carry
Explanation of Loading/Unloading, and Malfunctions.
Backup Weapon Transitioning.
Principles of Marksmanship:
Stance & Grip
Low Ready
High Ready
Presentation Mounting
Sighting & Aiming
Trigger Control & Follow Through
Recovery & Breathing
Single Fire
Double Tap
Hammer Fire
Controlled Fire
Malfunctions
Reloads
Tactical Reloads

Firing Positions (strong & weak side):
Standing
Hi-Lo Kneel / Hi-Lo Sitting / Reverse Kneeling
Rollover Kneeling
Sitting
Double Kneeling Hi-Lo
Seated / Rice Patty Prone
Prone
Military Prone
Cooper Rollover
Roll up/Supine
SBU Prone


CY6
Greg Sullivan "Sully"
SLR15 Rifles
TheDefensiveEdge.com
(763) 712-0123

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CY6
Greg Sullivan "Sully"
SLR15 Rifles
TheDefensiveEdge.com
(763) 712-0123

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CY6
Greg Sullivan "Sully"
SLR15 Rifles
TheDefensiveEdge.com
(763) 712-0123

We conducted a 1-day (8-hour) Carbine-1 Course at our home based range.  The Carbine-1 Course is designed to give the user a solid fundamental base.  Our day started with an introduction of our staff, and everyone doing their own introduction.  From there we went through our safety rules, procedures, and our medical protocol (to include our rule of “Don’t Shoot The Medic”).  The student base of this course was a mix of people that haven't had any formal training, some people who have trained with us or some other company,  to people that have trained with us for decades.

Rifles present were a mix of AR15 type rifles in 5.56 like SLR15, Colt, BCM, LWRC, Daniel Defense, Noveske, DPMS, LWRC, Sig Sauer, PWS, Bushmaster, Stag, some custom builds, and an Olympic .40S&W carbine.  Students Gear ranged from different chest rigs, plate carriers, battle belts, slings, and subloads. Handguns were a mix of mostly Glocks, a few Smith & Wesson M&P's, Sig Sauer, 1911's, Springfield XD, & Ruger.

We started the day with a short session on maintenance and lubrication, making sure all rifles were lubricated with Slip2000 "EWL" Extreme Weapons Lube.   During the maintenance session, we found a DPMS carrier key (gas key) that wasn’t staked, we remedied this with a MOACKS tool.  

We stepped onto the range and divided the group into two relays, so everyone has a partner.   We went through a session of weapons handling, manipulations, loading, unloading, and shooting fundamentals.  Our first shooting exercise started at about the 10yd line (what we refer to as room & hallway distances) going through a series of standing & shooting fundamental s.  This standing position session is done to show everyone what is natural vs comfortable, what recoil is and how the body works with or not with it, and how to manage recoil, and shows everyone the differences between bladed vs squared up.  We also introduced concepts of hammer vs controlled fire, with our emphasis on controlled fire.  

Once everyone was finding their own preferred standing platform, we showed all the uses and differences between sling systems and mounting options.  The sling type set ups included single point, traditional two point, tactical two point, and three point slings.  Once everyone was good on sling usage, we did a transition drill to drive the point home of how and why to use a sling, and how and when to transition from the rifle to something else.  This transition also shows people and our staff of where peoples pistol skills are at, and who needs pistol work.   A few more drills were done for skill building of getting the rifle mounted, shots on target, and follow through procedures of our doctrine.   Everyone was tasked with taking a lunch break to replenish fluids, nutrients, and ammunition.  
   
After a short lunch break, we met on the 25yd line and lectured on zeroing.  This included what the AR15 weapons sighting system was designed for and how it works, to include the A1, A2, and short sight radius guns like the M4 sighting systems.  We also showed alternative zeroing options same plane apertures, optics, and gave examples of alternative zeroing distance tables (to include our preference of the 50yd zero).  Everyone checked zeroes, this allowed everyone to see how the different sighting systems and zeroing targets work.

Once everyone had obtained a reasonable zero, we went through a session on traditional and alternative shooting positions.  This session started from different ground positions of prone, sitting, kneeling, squatting, etc.  The shooting position session allows everyone to see what a good stable shooting base allows for accuracy, and then we offer some alternatives that allow combat accuracy while using cover or concealment.  We run through the shooting position session several times to make sure everyone is squared away.  The last part of the day we moved to the 100yd line and put out the steel targets.  At 100yds we allow everyone to use as many of the shooting positions and variables of them on the steel targets as they wish.  The shooting on steel drives confidence home that you can hit targets with a rifle (even iron sighted) if you do your job, and it shows that all the positions work, that some positions are more stable than others, but all of them work if the shooter does their part.  We ended that day with some of our reloading drills, and a few other exercises.  

Notes:  An excellent day by all.  Everyone shot well, and did their part for safe weapons handling, and learning.  We only had one weapon issue, and it was the Olympic .40S&W carbine that ran on Glock magazines, it had feeding issues of making it unreliable.  It is our understanding that the student who owns the Olympic, has possibly made arrangements to obtain something in 5.56.    

CY6
Greg Sullivan "Sully"
SLR15 Rifles
TheDefensiveEdge.com
(763) 712-0123