What if you could only have one rifle? What would it be? What if you need the ability to engage very fast up close and then also shoot out to medium distance? This is where is a Hybrid Carbine shines.
A Hybrid Carbine is a very accurate 16 in AR in 5.56 with a 1-6 or 1-8 variable power scope with mil hash marks and a daytime visible red dot.
Why the Hybrid Carbine? This setup is about as close as it gets to the one rifle that will do it all. It won’t do anything the best, but it will do a lot of things very well. With this setup you can make all of your rifle standards at close and medium range, then you can dial the power up on your glass and shoot out to 600-700 yards.
Here is what my Hybrid Carbine looks like:
Forged mil spec upper and lower (any reputable brand)
Proof Research 16 inch stainless/ carbon fiber barrel, 1/8 twist Wylde chamber
Midwest Industries keymod freefloat tube 12 or 15 in tube
Smith Vortex flash suppressor
Geilse SSA two stage trigger (or you can use a geisle G2S)
Hogue grip
Magpul CTR stock
Magpul back up sights
Vortex Razor HDII 1-6 Mil reticle (any good 1-6 or 1-8 with mil or minute hash marks and a daytime visible red dot will work)
Vortex/ Bobro QD cantaliever mount
Arisaka keymod flashlight mounted between 9 and 12
V-Tac sling (the one with no padding)
77 gr Black Hills Ammunition
Upcoming Carbine Courses
april
23aprallday23-24 April 2026 Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course IDNear Coeur d'Alene, ID
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Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course Led by Bill Rapier Near Coeur d'Alene, ID Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to
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Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Coeur d’Alene, ID
Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to get in to a fight, you bring a rifle. This class will make you better with your carbine, not just on a flat range setting, but also in the woods or on the side of a mountain. You will need a baseline of carbine skills and fitness to participate. Show up with a zeroed rifle and be ready to jump right into challenging drills and learn. Topics covered will include:
- Knowing your limits. How far and how fast can you make the shot to save your kid.
- Positional shooting.
- Bipod and tripod use.
- Building stable shooting positions in the woods.
- Minimizing exposure when shooting from cover.
- Shooting from your other strong side to maximize concealment/ cover.
- Positional shooting from cover.
- High heart rate drills.
- Challenging run and gun reps
Time
april 23 (Thursday) - 24 (Friday)
Course Contact
American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC AmtacShooting@gmail.com
june
11junallday11-12 June 2026 Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course UTNear Salt Lake City, UT
Course Details
Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course Led by Bill Rapier Near Salt Lake City, UT Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to get into a fight, you bring a rifle. This class will make you better with your carbine, not just on a flat range setting, but also in the woods or on the side of a mountain. You will need a baseline of carbine skills and fitness to participate. Show up with a zeroed rifle and be ready to jump right into challenging drills and learn. Topics covered will include: Knowing your limits. How far and how fast can you make the shot to save your kid Medium distance shooting out to 400 yards Positional shooting Bipod and tripod use Learn to build improvised shooting positions Minimizing exposure when shooting from cover Shooting from your other strong side to maximize concealment/ cover Positional shooting from cover High heart rate drills Challenging run and gun reps Registration and More Details Here >>
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Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Salt Lake City, UT
Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to get into a fight, you bring a rifle. This class will make you better with your carbine, not just on a flat range setting, but also in the woods or on the side of a mountain. You will need a baseline of carbine skills and fitness to participate. Show up with a zeroed rifle and be ready to jump right into challenging drills and learn. Topics covered will include:
- Knowing your limits. How far and how fast can you make the shot to save your kid
- Medium distance shooting out to 400 yards
- Positional shooting
- Bipod and tripod use
- Learn to build improvised shooting positions
- Minimizing exposure when shooting from cover
- Shooting from your other strong side to maximize concealment/ cover
- Positional shooting from cover
- High heart rate drills
- Challenging run and gun reps
Time
june 11 (Thursday) - 12 (Friday)
Course Contact
American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC AmtacShooting@gmail.com
Course Details
The Amtac Shooting Fighting In and Around Vehicles/Pistol Led by Bill Rapier Near Coeur d'Alene, ID We are in and around vehicles on a daily basis. As the security situation in our Nation continues to deteriorate, you are more and more likely to experience violence in your vehicle or in close proximity to it. This course will work through a short fundamental pistol progression and then jump into a progression of challenging live fire drills. You will draw and fire live fire from a vehicle as well as work small two or three-man team tactics live fire drills. On day two, we will start with a mindset talk and then jump into combatives inside of a vehicle, followed by airsoft force-on-force drills in and around vehicles. Topics covered will include: Mindset Pistol fundamentals Class on vehicle considerations, both combative and kinetic Live fire bailout drills What to keep in your vehicle Vehicle combatives class and practical Small 2-3 man team tactics around vehicles Basic medical class Challenging force-on-force situational drills This is a physically demanding course, you need to be healthy and have a baseline of fitness to participate. Lodging is available onsite
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The Amtac Shooting Fighting In and Around Vehicles/Pistol
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Coeur d’Alene, ID
We are in and around vehicles on a daily basis. As the security situation in our Nation continues to deteriorate, you are more and more likely to experience violence in your vehicle or in close proximity to it. This course will work through a short fundamental pistol progression and then jump into a progression of challenging live fire drills. You will draw and fire live fire from a vehicle as well as work small two or three-man team tactics live fire drills. On day two, we will start with a mindset talk and then jump into combatives inside of a vehicle, followed by airsoft force-on-force drills in and around vehicles. Topics covered will include:
- Mindset
- Pistol fundamentals
- Class on vehicle considerations, both combative and kinetic
- Live fire bailout drills
- What to keep in your vehicle
- Vehicle combatives class and practical
- Small 2-3 man team tactics around vehicles
- Basic medical class
- Challenging force-on-force situational drills
This is a physically demanding course, you need to be healthy and have a baseline of fitness to participate.
Time
june 18 (Thursday) - 19 (Friday)
Course Contact
American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC AmtacShooting@gmail.com
september
10sepallday10-11 September 2026 Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course Boise IDBoise, ID
Course Details
Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course Led by Bill Rapier Boise, UT Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to get into a fight, you bring a rifle. This class will make you better with your carbine, not just on a flat range setting, but also in the woods or on the side of a mountain. You will need a baseline of carbine skills and fitness to participate. Show up with a zeroed rifle and be ready to jump right into challenging drills and learn. Topics covered will include: Knowing your limits. How far and how fast can you make the shot to save your kid Medium distance shooting out to 400 yards Positional shooting Bipod and tripod use Learn to build improvised shooting positions Minimizing exposure when shooting from cover Shooting from your other strong side to maximize concealment/ cover Positional shooting from cover High heart rate drills Challenging run and gun reps Registration and More Details Here >>
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Course Details
Amtac Shooting Advanced Carbine Course
Led by Bill Rapier
Boise, UT
Rifles allow us to shoot further, faster, and more accurately than our pistols. If you know you are going to get into a fight, you bring a rifle. This class will make you better with your carbine, not just on a flat range setting, but also in the woods or on the side of a mountain. You will need a baseline of carbine skills and fitness to participate. Show up with a zeroed rifle and be ready to jump right into challenging drills and learn. Topics covered will include:
- Knowing your limits. How far and how fast can you make the shot to save your kid
- Medium distance shooting out to 400 yards
- Positional shooting
- Bipod and tripod use
- Learn to build improvised shooting positions
- Minimizing exposure when shooting from cover
- Shooting from your other strong side to maximize concealment/ cover
- Positional shooting from cover
- High heart rate drills
- Challenging run and gun reps
Time
september 10 (Thursday) - 11 (Friday)
Course Contact
American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC AmtacShooting@gmail.com
november
Course Details
The Amtac Shooting NVG Level 2 Course / Fighting at Night Led by Bill Rapier Near Coeur d'Alene, ID Fighting at night. The Amtac Shooting Level 2 NVG course is designed to train solid Americans how to maximize the advantage of fighting at night time. What are the best tactics, what is the right gear, what are the best practices to maximize our chances success? How do we shoot, move and communicate at night? In this course we will cover: Day and night shooting with pistol and carbine Setting up your helmet and NOD's 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 This is a physically demanding course. You will need a baseline of fitness to participate. For this Level 2 Course, I recommend that you have spent some time on NODs before you come. Lodging
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The Amtac Shooting NVG Level 2 Course / Fighting at Night
Led by Bill Rapier
Near Coeur d’Alene, ID
Fighting at night. The Amtac Shooting Level 2 NVG course is designed to train solid Americans how to maximize the advantage of fighting at night time. What are the best tactics, what is the right gear, what are the best practices to maximize our chances success? How do we shoot, move and communicate at night? In this course we will cover:
- Day and night shooting with pistol and carbine
- Setting up your helmet and NOD’s
- 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
This is a physically demanding course. You will need a baseline of fitness to participate. For this Level 2 Course, I recommend that you have spent some time on NODs before you come.
Time
4 (Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 6 (Friday) 9:00 pm
Course Contact
American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC AmtacShooting@gmail.com
09nov5:00 pm8:00 pm9 November 2026 - Amtac Shooting Combatives Seminar (Kore BJJ) CTDanbury, CT
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Amtac Shooting Combatives Seminar (Kore BJJ) Danbury, CT This is a 3-hour combatives seminar hosted by Kore BJJ, American Top Team
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Amtac Shooting Combatives Seminar (Kore BJJ)
Danbury, CT
This is a 3-hour combatives seminar hosted by Kore BJJ, American Top Team Connecticut in Danbury, CT.
Time: 5-8pm
It will focus on strategy and applying BJJ, wrestling, Thai Boxing, Boxing and Sayoc Kali principles into real life application. A mindset talk will be included.
Time
(Monday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Course Contact
Bill Rapierbill@amtacshooting.com