Services

What We Can Offer You

At SRF Training and Consulting we offer curriculum focused in personal protection or sporting use with all types of firearms. We also offer specialized curriculum on threat avoidance and living a responsible armed lifestyle. Courses in basic marksmanship and private instruction are also offered.

Click here for a list of our available and calendared courses at Shooting Classes

Protective Pistol

One and two day courses that inform the basics of using a handgun for defensive purposes. Legal and moral issues presentation, developing the proper mindset, and gear selection. Includes draw and presentation from concealment, engaging targets with full accountability,, use of cover or concealment and delivering accurate fire under constraints. One day course satisfies the training requirements for a Wyoming Concealed Carry License. Two day courses include discretionary decision making, movement, engaging targets from close quarters to as far as 25 yards and shooting with precise accuracy in a variety of commonly encountered shooting positions and conditions.

Active Attacker

Half day or full day courses that examine the active shooter event, lessons learned from past events, warning signs and intelligence gathering, roles and responsibilities of security teams, evaluating security requirements, making and implementing security, operational and training plans for schools, churches, business and industry. Full day sessions include discretionary decision making exercises, dry and live fire exercises, evaluating and identifying defender’s skills and abilities with a firearm and stretching those abilities, with emphasis on delivering precise fire when the offender may be partially obscured or when the background may be cluttered.

Protective Shotgun

One and two day courses which include history and evolution of the modern fighting shotgun and its ammunition, legal and moral aspects, administrative handling, care and maintenance, home defense use case scenarios, ammunition selection, recoil mitigation, dry and live fire exercises, patterning. Two day course introduces advanced tactics, movement and additional drills focused on recoil mitigation and ammunition management, discretionary decision making and additional concepts.

Beyond Concealed Carry

A one day course for students already experienced in carrying concealed and working from a holster, covering legal and moral aspects, threat recognition, avoiding and managing threats, less lethal tools, discretionary decision making in potentially violent encounters, gear selection and evaluation. Dry and live fire including a qualification exercise. This course is designed and intended to elevate the students knowledge and skills to a higher level and provide them with a training roadmap to maintain their skills in the future.

Running Little Guns

Compact and micro compact pistols, such as the Ruger LCP, Sig P365 and Springfield Armory Hellcat, and small revolvers such as those from Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Taurus or Kimber, are extremely popular with today’s concealed carrier. They are easier to carry and conceal than a duty sized gun. However, their compact size makes them more challenging to shoot with the necessary precision the real world commands. They are also harder to manipulate, either administratively or in live fire. Running Little Guns is a one day course for shooters of all experience levels specific to these small tools that gives the user the opportunity to hone both their marksmanship and gun handling to build unconscious competence.

Carbine Fundamentals

Half day or full day course for new to intermediate shooters on the semi-automatic carbine in home defense contexts. Students will learn manipulations and safe administrative handling as well as care and cleaning. Course of fire includes establishing or verifying zero, exercises designed to introduce and hone defensive shooting skills, movement and firing from cover, concealment and a variety of shooting positions. AR and AK pattern rifles are welcome as are pistol caliber carbines. Both you and your gear will be put to the test.

Living with BUGs

The backup gun, or BUG, can be a true life saver. Often carried in deep concealment, and tiny, the backup gun is deployed in the gravest of extremes. This one day specialized course is intended for armed professionals such as law enforcement, executive protection and high risk armed security, but is open to private persons whose use case and context may dictate having a second gun at hand. Students will learn and work with common methods and gear for carrying the backup, with the goal of optimizing their personal gear selection for their individual use cases and context. Dry and live fire exercises will emphasize deploying the backup gun from compromised positions.

Defending the Homestead

Here on the High Plains many live outside of town, some very far outside. But criminal activity can happen even in the middle of nowhere and, if it does, help may be an hour or more away. This one or two day course is designed both for new and experienced homesteaders and introduces handgun, carbine and shotgun as components of a layered defense. Topics include legal and moral aspects, tactics for couples, use of cover and concealment, preparing your home and property as well as how to choose the best gear for the task. Students will have the opportunity to shoot all three types of arms in a variety of exercises.

Protective Pistol with Tactical Anatomy

In the event of being forced to shoot in order to save a life of a family member or yourself, knowing how to shoot is only part of the equation. Handguns, the most commonly used type in personal defense, are of limited power and for them to be truly and rapidly effective shots from them must be directed precisely to anatomically impactful structures at speed. This one or two day course is built upon the Tactical Anatomy^TM methodology developed by Dr. James Stuart Williams, MD. It has been used with successful and measurable results by many law enforcement agencies. Students will learn where the anatomically impactful structures are located, and how to visualize the body in three dimensions so as to not rely on external landmarks for targeting. The student will learn how to target those structures aggressively regardless of how the target is oriented. Students will work through progressively smaller targets through the course until they can reliably place shots at speed at varying distances in a variety of target orientations. We offer this class as open enrollment for private persons or to law enforcement agencies.

Safer on the Streets

Not every personal defense situation requires a firearm to resolve. In fact the odds of needing to use a firearm defensively are far longer than needing to use interpersonal skills or a less lethal defensive tool if necessary. Many threats can be avoided simply by paying attention to our surroundings, observing and evaluating the people and situations, then making solid choices based on pre-determined plans on how to deal with a potential threat. The key is seeing the potential threat before the threat selects you, and having a layered plan on how to deal with it. This one day course is non-shooting and is geared toward businesses, church security teams, social groups, and anyone who wants to be a little better prepared for the challenges of day to day life. In this course we will focus heavily on threat recognition, avoidance when possible, the signals and visual cues that indicate a threat, de-escalation skills, and the defensive use of pepper spray.

Additionally we offer consulting in physical security, policies and procedures for and response to emergencies for organizations and businesses.

Call 707-695-7800 or use the contact form to reach us.