Element Training Complex

Fighting Carbine Hard Skills Phase 1
2026-03-28 08:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00 UTC | Element Training Complex
Carbine Hard Skills

Phase 1

HARD SKILLS: Technical skills required for a job/profession. Learned abilities acquired though training and experience. Measurable and Quantifiable.

If you carry a gun as part of your profession or for personal protection this course is designed to give you the hard skills with the gun that you need to responsibly win a fight with a gun. This is a shooting course focused on shooting skills. Not tactics.

The course will begin with an installation of the Proctor Shooting Process that is the foundation that we will build everything else from. The Process will introduce very simple foundational concepts that apply to performance in shooting and training to perform.

In this course we will focus on core hard skills with the carbine and perform focused on exercises that will develop those hard skills and habits. In order to actually train and walk away from the 2-day course with more ability we will focus on specific hard skills until a level of proficiency or training is reached then move to another hard skill.

A strong focus of the course will be to achieve “accuracy with urgency”. Each hard skill is measurable and has an associated evaluation. The evaluations will test a reasonable degree of accuracy with a reasonable amount of speed. In short, we are training to win a fight with a gun against another person. We are not shooting Bullseye and we are not shooting USPSA.

Shooters will walk away from the course with a classification based on how they performed through the Hard Skill Evaluations.

This is the Phase 1 course and is not all inclusive of every Hard Skill required with a carbine. This Phase 1 course is designed to develop hard skills necessary to responsibly win a fight with a carbine at CQB distances up to 25 yards.

TOPICS COVERED BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Proctor Shooting Process

Concepts vs technique

Repetition

Focused exercises

Take away work outs for dry fire and live fire

Evaluations

Visual processing speed

Movement/Body Mechanics and Articulation

Manipulations/Manual of Arms

Ranking/classification

Accuracy with urgency

Optimal equipment set up considerations

EQUIPMENT:

Carbine with sling

OPTICS: magnification is not needed for this course. In the case of LPVO something with true 1X magnification is preferred. Fixed magnification such as 3x only or 4x only is not recommended.

2 magazines (more is fine)

Belt mounted magazine pouch would be recommended but not required

Plate carriers and armor are not necessary but bring them if you wear them for work etc. and we can make sure they allow for optimal work with the gun.

AMMO:

In this course we will be putting in a lot of reps on the hard skills in order to actually train and develop proficiency and ability, that means you are going to shoot a lot. Bring ammo-1500 rounds minimum.

PERSONAL ITEMS: Standard range items apply such as eye and ear protection. Bring anything else you need to sustain yourself and equipment for a day on the range. Courses may be indoor or outdoor so plan accordingly.

CLASS TIMES are typically 9-4 with some variations.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Fighting Carbine Hard Skills Phase 1
2026-03-28 08:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00
Carbine Hard Skills

Phase 1

HARD SKILLS: Technical skills required for a job/profession. Learned abilities acquired though training and experience. Measurable and Quantifiable.

If you carry a gun as part of your profession or for personal protection this course is designed to give you the hard skills with the gun that you need to responsibly win a fight with a gun. This is a shooting course focused on shooting skills. Not tactics.

The course will begin with an installation of the Proctor Shooting Process that is the foundation that we will build everything else from. The Process will introduce very simple foundational concepts that apply to performance in shooting and training to perform.

In this course we will focus on core hard skills with the carbine and perform focused on exercises that will develop those hard skills and habits. In order to actually train and walk away from the 2-day course with more ability we will focus on specific hard skills until a level of proficiency or training is reached then move to another hard skill.

A strong focus of the course will be to achieve “accuracy with urgency”. Each hard skill is measurable and has an associated evaluation. The evaluations will test a reasonable degree of accuracy with a reasonable amount of speed. In short, we are training to win a fight with a gun against another person. We are not shooting Bullseye and we are not shooting USPSA.

Shooters will walk away from the course with a classification based on how they performed through the Hard Skill Evaluations.

This is the Phase 1 course and is not all inclusive of every Hard Skill required with a carbine. This Phase 1 course is designed to develop hard skills necessary to responsibly win a fight with a carbine at CQB distances up to 25 yards.

TOPICS COVERED BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Proctor Shooting Process

Concepts vs technique

Repetition

Focused exercises

Take away work outs for dry fire and live fire

Evaluations

Visual processing speed

Movement/Body Mechanics and Articulation

Manipulations/Manual of Arms

Ranking/classification

Accuracy with urgency

Optimal equipment set up considerations

EQUIPMENT:

Carbine with sling

OPTICS: magnification is not needed for this course. In the case of LPVO something with true 1X magnification is preferred. Fixed magnification such as 3x only or 4x only is not recommended.

2 magazines (more is fine)

Belt mounted magazine pouch would be recommended but not required

Plate carriers and armor are not necessary but bring them if you wear them for work etc. and we can make sure they allow for optimal work with the gun.

AMMO:

In this course we will be putting in a lot of reps on the hard skills in order to actually train and develop proficiency and ability, that means you are going to shoot a lot. Bring ammo-1500 rounds minimum.

PERSONAL ITEMS: Standard range items apply such as eye and ear protection. Bring anything else you need to sustain yourself and equipment for a day on the range. Courses may be indoor or outdoor so plan accordingly.

CLASS TIMES are typically 9-4 with some variations.

ADMIN NOTES- after registration PLEASE READ- STUDENT

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
