Upcoming Courses

The Amtac Shooting Tribe Centric CQB Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Amtac Training Center (North Idaho)

What if you hear glass breaking in the middle of the night? What if you have to move your family through a mall during an active shooter event? What is the safest way to move through and clear an area of immediate threats? This course is designed to teach good Americans how to properly do Close Quarters Battle (CQB) in the context of your immediate family and friends. The progression of this course will include, pistol and carbine live fire fundamentals, dynamic live fire drills, and a logical progression of CQB that will culminate with force-on-force clearance problems. You will learn to clear structures as an individual, as an individual with a small child or untrained spouse in tow, and as a small team. Due to the nature of the material being taught, you must be a current Amtac Shooting Student in order to participate in this course.

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Amtac Shooting 1 Course
Lead Instructor: David Cagle

Amtac Shotgun 1 is a course designed to develop physical skill and understanding of the shotgun and its place in a modern minuteman’s armory. The shotgun has a more narrow application than the pistol or carbine, but retains specific capabilities that neither of these systems offer. When employed correctly, the shotgun  can give you unmatched terminal ballistics, more effective interdiction against vehicles, 50 state legality, and many other advantages to be  covered in class. This course will apply the Amtac methodology to the  use of this system in a lethal encounter.

 Topics will include: mindset/philosophy of use for the shotgun, proper setup, patterning, specific manipulations to use and keep a gauge running, and CB specific shotgun shooting techniques

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The Amtac Shooting Modern Minuteman Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Oklahoma City, OK

The Amtac Shooting Modern Minuteman Course

This is the Modern Minuteman Course. The purpose of this course is to develop your modern-day minuteman skills so you are ready and capable to navigate, shoot, communicate and survive. 

You will learn to:

• Navigate while carrying a 25-30lbs load
• A base level of bush crafting skills
• To shoot out to 600-700 yards
• Understand basic LOS (line of sight) communications. 

Day 1:

• Precision rifle class/ practical
• Navigation class/ practical
• Basic LOS (line of sight) communications

Day 2:

• Competition where you put all of these skills together.

Why a competition? Because it is good to put some pressure on ourselves from time to time. Also, guys will prepare more for the course if they know that they will be able to test themselves against their peers. The competition will be self-paced, so you don’t have to be able to complete all of the tasks or navigate to all of the waypoints.

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Advanced Responsible Armed Citizen/ Integrated Combatives Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Oconomowoc, WI

The Advanced Responsible Armed Citizen/ Integrated Combatives Course is designed for more experienced shooters to increase their shooting, fighting, and integrated combatives capabilities. We will cover both fundamentals and more advanced shooting drills, situational striking from different stand-up grappling positions and ranges, stand-up grappling with weapons concepts, both strong and other strong hand use of the blade and most importantly being able to tie it all together as tactically and situationally appropriate. This is a physically demanding course and you must be healthy and have a baseline of fitness in order to participate (see our article on fitness here for more info).

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Integrated Combatives Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (ATC Training Center)

Most “gun guys” think that when faced with a situation that requires deadly force the answer is always “gun”. The reality is that this line of thinking is likely to get you killed. This course will teach you how to integrate empty-hand techniques with blades, improvised weapons, and firearms. You will learn to fluidly transition from one tool to the next based on what is situationally appropriate. This is a physically demanding, hands-on course that will elevate your situational awareness and shooting/ fighting ability to the next level.

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LEO Pistol, Carbine, and Integrated Combatives Course
Led by Bill Rapier
West Boylston, MA

This course is designed to teach law enforcement and military professionals the tactics and techniques they need to stay alive in an increasingly dangerous workplace. Topics for this course will include: mindset, carbine fundamentals and carbine combatives (fighting with a carbine in hand), pistol fundamentals and advanced pistol drills, integrated combatives consisting of striking, blade, and pistol use and seamlessly transitioning from one tool or technique to the next depending on what is tactically and situationally appropriate. This is a physically demanding course, you will need to be healthy and have a baseline of physical fitness to participate.

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The Amtac Shooting Pistol Combatives and Medical Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Baker, Florida

The Amtac Shooting Pistol Combatives and Medical Course will review pistol fundamentals and combative fundamentals and then teach the following lifesaving medical skills:

• Bleeding control
• Airway management
• Respiratory support
• Dealing with shock and hypothermia

This is a physically demanding course and you will need a baseline of fitness to participate.

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If you can only take one rifle, which one is it? That question has been asked by a lot of very capable men. My answer is the Hybrid Carbine, a 11.5-16 in accurate 5.56 rifle with a 1-6, 1-8, or 1-10 power LPVO. With this setup, you can shoot anything from CQB distances to 400-700 yards and beyond. This course will work carbine fundamentals and then jump right into medium distance shooting (out to 400-700 yards).

Course curriculum will include:

• Carbine fundamentals and close-range manipulation
• Medium distance shooting
• Transitioning from near to far targets
• Intro to external ballistics
• Understanding MOA’s and MRAD
• Ballistic calculator use
• Truing your rifle

and more.

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• The calling of Christian men
• Throwing elbows
• Using head butts
• Throwing knees
• Using Thai clinch and collar ties
• Intro to blade use
• Team stress course
• Practical ways to follow more intentionally after Christ
• The Gospel
• Question and answer time
• Dinner is provided

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The Amtac Shooting NVG Level 2 Course / Fighting at Night
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at the Amtac Training Center

• Day and night shooting with pistol and carbine
• Setting up your helmet and NODs
• Setting up pistol and carbine for night fighting
• Team movement at night
• Intro to day and night 2 man CQB
• Force on force runs at night
• Radio communications
• Team Tactics
• Mindset

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