$299.99 When your weapon stops working, can you identify the problem, fix it, and stay in the fight?
No classroom, all range time. Students progress through advanced pistol and carbine drills focused on diagnosing malfunctions and quickly returning the weapon to operation. Skills include weapon transitions, support-side operation, movement, barricades, multiple targets, and use of cover.
Pistol / Carbine – Level 3 is an advanced, one-day course designed for experienced shooters who already have a solid foundation with both the pistol and carbine. The focus shifts from simply running the firearm to diagnosing problems, correcting malfunctions, and maintaining effective weapon employment under increasingly demanding conditions.
This is not an introductory course. Participants must already be safe, confident, and competent with both pistol and carbine and should be capable drawing from a holster, performing reloads, transitioning between weapons, and shooting while moving.
Completion of Pistol and Carbine Levels 1 and 2 or equivalent training/experience is required. The range reserves the right to remove participant(s) from the course for any reason without a refund.
Outline:
Pistol
- Immediate-action malfunction clearing
- Remedial-action malfunction clearing
- Emergency and tactical reloads
- One-handed shooting with both strong and support hands
- Support-hand reloads
- Support-hand immediate and remedial action
- Shooting while moving
- Multiple-target engagements
- Barricade and positional shooting
Carbine
- Immediate-action malfunction clearing
- Remedial-action malfunction clearing
- Reloads and weapon manipulation
- Strong- and support-side shooting
- Transitioning the carbine to the opposite shoulder
- Support-side weapon manipulation
- Shooting positions
- Shooting while moving
- Multiple-target engagements
- Barricade and cover drills
Integrated Pistol / Carbine Skills
- Transitioning from carbine to pistol
- Diagnosing whether to clear a malfunction or transition weapons
- Maintaining weapon capability while moving
- Engaging targets while moving to cover
- Transitioning to pistol when the carbine goes down
- Reloading and returning the carbine to operation from behind cover
- Advanced drills combining movement, malfunctions, transitions, reloads, and multiple weapon systems
Equipment List
- Pistol
- Carbine
- Approximately 500 rounds of pistol ammunition
- Approximately 500 rounds of carbine ammunition
- Quality pistol holster
- Pistol magazine pouch
- Carbine sling
- Appropriate magazines for both weapon systems
- Eye and ear protection
- Water
- Snacks/lunch
- Sunscreen
- Brimmed hat
- Clothing and footwear appropriate for a full day of outdoor training
By the end of the course, students will be better prepared to recognize failures, solve problems quickly, transition between weapon systems, and keep themselves operational while moving, working around cover, or shooting from a compromised position.
Most instructors supervise – we diagnose: This course includes personalized shooting diagnostics and corrective actions to ensure you leave with improved performance and greater competence.
Why Shadow Hawk Defense
We’re not a traveling roadshow that comes into town for a weekend and disappears. We’re a permanent training center committed to the people we train.
When you train with us, you gain access to more than a single class:
• A dedicated training facility
• Availability to consistent ongoing coaching and development
• A professional training environment
• Instructors and staff who are here before and after the course ends
Participants must be 18 or older. A valid US photo ID is required at registration. All students will be required to sign a waiver for this course. Registration will be in the training building. Upon entry to the facility, turn left and park in front of the tan building with the green roof.
Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations less than 14 days before class will result in a forfeit of $100 from registration fee.
Cancellations less than 2 days before class will result in a forfeit of $200 from registration fee.
No refund for no-shows.
For questions, email Info@ShadowHawkDefense.com or call the office at 304-616-6582
Shadow Hawk Defense
A Better Experience Awaits
NOVA / EP WV
436 Apple Harvest Dr
Hedgesville, WV 25427
304-616-6582
