Upcoming Courses

The purpose of this two-day course is to build men that are able able to shoot out to 600-700 yards, 1200-1400 yards and 1600-2000+ yards depending on weapons system.

In order to reach proficiency in this goal, we will cover these topics during the course:

• precision rifle shooting
• setting up your rifle
• understanding MOAs and mils
• reading the wind
• understanding shooter/spotter communication
• using ballistic software
• non standard shooting positions

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This is the Modern Minute Man 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 the following:

Be able to navigate 20 miles while carrying a 25-30lbs load
Have a base level of bushcrafting skills
Be able to shoot out to 600-700 yards
Understand basic LOS (line of sight) communications.
This course will set you on a path to be able to perform these tasks.

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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The 2022 Modern Warrior Conference. This is a rare opportunity to train with some of the top instructors in the pistol combatives, blade,grappling, striking and carbine disciplines.

The Instructors for this year are:

Tuhon Tom Kier of the Sayoc Kali System
Justin Garcia aka Master Chim
Tuhon Harley Elmore of the Sayoc Kali System
Bill Rapier from Amtac Shooting

This year’s topics of instruction will include:

Mindset
Pistol Work
Blade Work
Grappling with Weapons
Striking
Carbines

Our overall theme is going to be pressurizing your training, so come prepared for some intensity. This is a physically engagingcourse that requires you to have a baseline of strength and fitness in order to participate.

Training sessions will occur Friday afternoon, all day Saturday and all day Sunday until late afternoon. Meals will be provided on Friday evening, Saturday lunch and dinner and Sunday lunch.

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Can you fight on the ground? How about when shoved into a wall or corner? How about when we add weapons into the mix? What about multiple attackers? This course will teach fundamentals of grappling with weapons. We will cover how different weapons change what the “correct response” is when in grappling situations. This is a physically demanding course. You need to have a base level of physical fitness to participate. You do not have to have a grappling background to participate. Topics that will be covered include:

• Grappling fundamentals
• Pistol drawstroke while grappling
• Blade drawstroke while grappling
• Dealing with multiple opponents from the ground
• Pros and cons of different weapons carry positions during a ground fight
• Force on force situational drills with ground fighting and training pistols

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This course is designed build competence with your compact carbine. Whether this is in the form of a “truck gun” or “back pack gun” more and more responsible armed citizens are increasing their capability by keeping a compact carbine close at hand. Among other things, the Amtac Shooting Compact Carbine Deployment Course will cover:

• Truck/ pack gun considerations
• Strike/ low ready presentations
• Shooting and moving
• Shoulders switches
• Positional shooting
• Barricade use

There will be multiple dynamic compact carbine deployment drills.

This is a physically demanding course, you need to have a base level of proficiency with both the carbine and pistol to attend.

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Does your system work? How well will your shooting/ combatives hold up under pressure? The Amtac Force on Force course will help you answer those questions and also build on your existing skill set. This course will cover pistol/ combative/ blade fundamentals and then place you in mentally and physically challenging force on force scenarios. This is a physically demanding, hands 0n course that will elevate your situational awareness and shooting/ combative ability to the next level.

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If you are on the path of becoming more capable of protecting yourself and your family you need to be able to shoot and you need to be able to grapple.

For the Amtac Shooting Jiu-Jitsu and Pistol Course my long time friend and Jiu-Jitsu teacher Gustavo Machado is coming out toteach the Jiu-Jitsu portion and I (Bill Rapier) will be teaching the shooting portion. Whether you are brand new to grappling or arevery experienced, this is an excellent opportunity to learn from the best.

Topics to be covered will include:

• takedowns
• sweeps
• guard passes
• positional domination
• submissions

Whether you have never stepped out on to a mat or you have been rolling for 20 years, your grappling skills will increase.

Pistol topics will include:

• fundamentals of marksmanship
• shooting with an aggressive fighting stance
• one handed drawstroke
• combative weapons retention shooting
• correctly dealing with malfunctions
• and reloads among other things.

This is a physically demanding course that will increase your grappling and shooting ability. You must have a baseline of fitness inorder to participate, you do not need to have a Jiu-Jitsu or grappling background in order to participate.

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Does your system work? How well will your shooting/ combatives hold up under pressure? The Amtac Force on Force course will help you answer those questions and also build on your existing skill set. This course will cover pistol/ combative/ blade fundamentals and then place you in mentally and physically challenging force on force scenarios. This is a physically demanding, hands 0n course that will elevate your situational awareness and shooting/ combative ability to the next level.

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What if you could only have one rifle? Serious men have discussed the merits of different platforms/ optics for years. With a properly configured “hybrid carbine” you can confidently make all of the time standards at CQB distances and then transition and engage out to 600-700 yards. This course will teach you solid carbine fundamentals on day one and then transition to shooting holds out to 500-700 yards, understanding MOA’s/ Mil’s, reading wind, ammo and optics selection, spotting and basic medical.

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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 technique combatives with blades, improvised weapons and firearms.
• How 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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This three day course is intended to train responsible armed citizens and select law enforcement to efficiently use carbines and pistols in complete darkness with the aid of night vision.

This course is three days of day into night shooting. You will learn cutting edge pistol and carbine drills during the day and then continue to rep those skills in complete darkness.

Topics covered will include:

• pistol/ carbine fundamentals,
• setting up your gear for night fighting,
• optics/ laser/ weapon/ ammunition selection,
• shooting and moving
• shooting from barricades.
• steel jungle lane

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Does your system work? How well will your shooting/ combatives hold up under pressure? The Amtac Force on Force course will help you answer those questions and also build on your existing skill set. This course will cover pistol/ combative/ blade fundamentals and then place you in mentally and physically challenging force on force scenarios. This is a physically demanding, hands-on course that will elevate your situational awareness and shooting/ combative ability to the next level.

Register