Our group's motivation is the practice of skills that will serve you well if you ever find yourself in an escalated altercation (really ugly fight). As such, you'll find the biggest difference between our organization and other, similar organizations is that our shooting matches are not competitions. They are not geared for scoring. (We don't really keep score.) Our soul purpose is to impress upon participants a good skill set and good habits.

We typically run at least one skills drill and one tactical drill at each event. In some cases, we'll run other drills with carbines or air-soft guns.

A skills drill emphasizes one critical skill and gives you a chance to practice it over and over again until you start to develop muscle memory. When you run a tactical drill, you'll quickly find that it's easy to get tunnel vision and loose fine motor skills under pressure. Developing and drilling core skills makes a huge difference in your performance under pressure.

A tactical drill is a simulated encounter. The location can be anything from a mocked up mall to your bedroom at home. There can be one threat, many threats, or no threats. There can be any number of non-threats as well. The start signal can be any kind of ruckus. You can solve the altercation in any way that seems prudent to you. (In some cases, people run, or physically attack the assailants if they're close.)

After running a drill, you'll get some feedback from the rest of us. We'll spend a minute analyzing what went well and what needs work. You'll get the chance to provide feedback for your fellow shooters as they run the drills. We learn a lot from both the feedback and from watching others.