Handgun Skill Builder: Meeting You Where You Are – Okeechobee, FL – Oct. 26-27, 2024
This Handgun Skill Builder: Meeting You Where You Are will be taught by Defenders USA’s Adam Winch and hosted by A Girl & A Gun Woman’s Shooting League (Treasure Coast Chapter) at the OK Corral Gun Club & Event Center.
Though this is hosted by the Treasure Coast AG&AG Chapter, this training is open to the public and will be held in the pistol bay #9.
Location Address:
9449 NE 48th St.
Okeechobee, FL 34972
The OK Corral Gun Club does have beautiful cabins to rent and an excellent restaurant on the property so you can stay right there without having to leave, if you so choose. Multiple people, to include the host and the instructor, will be staying on the property throughout the weekend and we invite you to join us for dinner at the range restaurant for dinner and to mingle after the training day on Saturday.
Range Fee:
There is a $40 per day Range Fee ($80 total) charged by the OK Corral Gun Club so please bring that in cash.
It will be collected by our host, Debbie Donohue, at the beginning of the course and given to the range staff.
We will start at 8:30 am and go till around 5:30 pm both Saturday and Sunday.
Please be 10 to 15 minutes early to fill out range waivers and to have your gear ready.
This Handgun Skill Builder: Meeting You Where You Are is a two-day training course intended for those who are already safe, proficient handgun handlers and shooters.
This is not a beginner’s course and is intended for those who are ready to move beyond basic shooting and to solidify shooting and handling skills through expert coaching, and then ultimately grow the abilities do so under the movements common to realistic defensive gun uses.
Beyond helping grow each person’s individual shooting skills, the primary goal of this training course is to help prepare those who might have to defend and fight for life itself when in compromised positions and situations, but using this two day period to ensure the foundational skills are rock solid before moving into more defensive and fighting uses of a handgun.
This is not a course where each shooter stands static in one position with a perfect stance while shooting at immobile targets. Therefore, once it is verified that everyone can safely handle and shoot their handguns, and after some precision work, movement will be introduced on the first day, often in close quarters to others.
The Saturday will start with safety, then refining handling and accuracy to find the skill of each individual and the group as a whole before moving to extreme precision, then into building or refining an efficient draw stroke with accuracy and recoil management, finding and stretching each attendees’ personal limits based on abilities. Movement and shooting will be introduced both at distance and up close to targets and in close quarters with others.
Sunday will expand on the work of Saturday, and if the skill levels are clearly there for everyone there, we will move into experimenting with groundwork, unconventional positional shooting, dealing with others, etc.
This will be a thoughtful, safe approach in training, allowing everyone attending to safely experiment and work through the entire course, allow for a lot of individual growth and experimenting through coaching, and grow into an understanding of how dynamic a fight can be.
Needed items:
Handgun (or more in case the primary handgun goes down)
Reliable, quality holster & three magazines
***Note on holsters: NO Serpa or similar holsters, NO purse holsters, NO pocket holsters, NO bra or cross draw holsters, NO ankle holsters, NO floppy or soft nylon holsters, etc.)
At least 800 to 1,000 rounds of ammo but feel free to bring more.
Handgun cleaning supplies (you and your weapon will be getting dirty)
Eye & ear protection
Any wanted snacks & non-alcoholic beverages
A brimmed hat
Weather appropriate clothing for an outdoor environment
Any wanted snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
A lunch, as there will not be time to leave the range for lunch. The range restaurant – reputed to be rather good – will also provide a lunch that can be ordered for each day, if so desired.
$40 range fee per day in cash
Optional Items:
A durable mat or knee/elbow pads wanted (you will be working from the ground at times on hard packed dirt and gravel so you may want such items for comfort)
A camping type chair (one that that can take a small amount of abuse)
Any sunscreen & bug spray wanted
This course is considered moderately physical and will require thoughtfulness and constant mental and safety awareness; ultimately growing confidence and ability to defend life with a gun to even higher levels.
This course will be taught by Adam Winch, Defenders USA’s founder and lead instructor. Adam is a certified Master Instructor, with an extensive background in both real-life dangerous situations as both a law enforcement officer and in the military, and as a nationally recognized trainer.
His bio can be found on our website under the ABOUT tab.
Feel free to contact or call with any questions.
Adam: 970-986-0774
Adam@Defenders-USA.com
We look forward to training with you!!