The Annual Rangemaster Tactical Conference March 15-17, 2019 ⬧ NOLATAC Training Center ⬧ New Orleans, LA www.Rangemaster.com www.Rangemaster.com Page 1 of 25 Welcome to Tac Con he Rangemaster Tactical fire courses covering everything from Conference in 1998 to give everyday TConference is the premier training marksmanship, to tactics and citizens access to high-quality event for students and teachers of mindset, to defensive tools and gear, defensive training, and it has personal defense. This annual to empty-hand skills, to trauma care. continued to grow ever since. Tom, conference takes place over a packed Over forty renowned trainers from all Lynn, and the entire Rangemaster three-day weekend and features over the country converge to share family would like to welcome all the several tracks of coursework in their expertise with conference attendees, volunteers, and trainers defense-related disciplines. The attendees and to network with joining us for this year’s Conference. weekend offers interactive classroom colleagues and like-minded peers. Be safe, learn as much as you can, sessions, hands-on training, and live- Tom Givens started the Tactical and have fun (in that order). SAFETY Rules or firearms safety, we use the Four Universal Gun-Handling: Treat all guns as if they are FGun Handling Rules that are pretty much 1 fully loaded, all the time. industry standard. All Tac-Con attendees are required to follow these rules at all times. Muzzles: Do not allow the weapon to point 2 at anything or anybody you are not willing to shoot. Trigger Fingers: Keep your trigger straight 3 and well away from the trigger guard unless your sights are on a target and you have decided to shoot. Targets: Be certain of your target, what’s 4 around it, and what may be behind it. www.Rangemaster.com Page 2 of 25 Procedures Check-In Procedures Long guns should be cased Red Shirts (RSOs) (unloaded) or slung (unloaded) when When you arrive on Friday morning, transporting them from vehicle to On each live-fire training range, please proceed to the check-in area to long gun classes. Have the action there will be a Range Safety Officer get your name tag. Tac-Con HQ will open. If slung, please be sure the (RSO), who will be wearing a red open at 7am. From there, you can weapon is slung with the muzzle shirt. The RSO is in charge of that head straight to your first class. Please straight up or straight down, so as to range as far as safety and crowd do not loiter in the check-in area, as not sweep others with your muzzle control are concerned. Please follow that creates traffic jams. There will be while walking. that person’s directions so that a separate social tent for catching up everyone remains safe and the with friends. Unless you are assigned Disarming for Force-on-Force events can be kept on schedule. in advance as part of the set-up crew, and Hands-On Classes please do not show up on Thursday For live-fire courses, the RSO on each just to look around. Everyone will be If you go to a hands-on class that range has a pre-printed roster for very busy with preparations, and prohibits live weapons (such as that class. Only those on that roster spectators can delay progress. Southnarc’s ELL or a disarming may participate in that class. If you course), you need to remove all gear are not on that roster, you may Gun-Handling Rules beforehand. DO NOT bring firearms, observe from an area designated by (How Not to Get Kicked Out) ammunition, live knives, Kubotans, the RSO. Please stay in that area. OC dispensers, or any other Please do not deluge the RSO with Unlike many other shooting venues, weapon-related gear to those requests to get into a class for which the Tactical Conference is a “hot” training areas. Go to your vehicle, you are not on the roster. RSOs have event. Unless a specific class does not take the holster off with the gun in lots of very important tasks to juggle, allow live weapons, all attendees, it, and stow the holstered gun in and they cannot accommodate volunteers, and trainers are welcome your car. BE CERTAIN you have special requests. to carry concealed, loaded weapons. removed all live gear from your person before you go the class. That means firearms should be Conference Crew secured on your person, in a quality holster that covers the trigger guard. For these classes, trainers and RSOs will check to confirm you have no Over forty nationally recognized trainers and subject matter experts There is simply no reason to have a live weapons. For knife classes, you are here to conduct dozens of handgun out of its holster anywhere may bring a trainer/drone knife with training blocks for you. In addition, on the property except while you are no sharpened edge or tip. For there are almost twenty on the firing line in a shooting class classes on disarming, you may bring Rangemaster staff members and and the trainer has instructed you to a solid rubber/plastic training gun volunteers working this event, plus present it. DO NOT take a handgun out (red gun, blue gun, etc.). This is a several of NOLATAC’s staff on hand. of its holster in the parking area, in huge safety issue, and these Please be patient and cooperative any classroom area, or anywhere else procedures will be strictly enforced. with them, so they won’t have any on the property except a live-fire reason to hurt you. ☺ range, during a drill, as instructed by the person teaching the class. Any Other than these specific guidelines, violations will result in immediate relax, have fun, and soak in as much expulsion from the property. training as time allows! www.Rangemaster.com Page 3 of 25 Our Venue he 2019 Tactical Conference will Please note the designated parking area. There will be limited supplies of ammo Ttake place at the NOLATAC Training Attendees’ vehicles are not allowed onto and other items available for purchase Center in Avondale, Louisiana (just the grassy areas or at the ranges. Staff in the NOLATAC Pro-Shop Tent, and outside of New Orleans). The diagram members will be available with golf carts attendees will have access to the onsite below shows how the site will be to assist any attendees who have restaurant. Portable restroom facilities arranged for the weekend. mobility restrictions. will be set up near Tac-Con HQ. nce again, welcome to Tac-Con. OThank you in advance for being safe and courteous to all in attendance. We hope you enjoy the Conference and gain lots of new information and skills that you can put to immediate use. We look forward to training with you. Sincerely, Tom and Lynn Givens www.Rangemaster.com Page 4 of 25 Rangemaster Tactical Conference March 15-17, 2019 NOLATAC Training Center Schedule at a Glance… Download the Conference Mobile App: (Install and search for “Rangemaster”) Classroom Classroom Classroom Hand-to-Hand Range Range Range Range Tent 1 Tent 2 Tent 3 Bay 1 2 3 4 Strategies, Options, Social 8a Ammo Update Handgun Draw and Tactics Levergun Topper National Tactical MacGyver Pakieser + Penzel Technical Skills 9a Invitational: Werner School of Weems for Tactical 10a Concealed Carry: Lessons Learned Medical Response Medicine Critical Success Just Enough Jits MATCH Beyond the Gun Gochenour on the Range House Skills & Drills White Burch 11a Murphy Causey Dobbs Noon FRIDAY 1p Controversial Mission Handgun Acquittals Drives Gear Disarming Skills Intro to Great American Recoil 2p Ayoob Bolke Fuller Handguns Take a Seat Gunfights Management (Ladies only) Whitlock 3p Surviving the Hearne Empty-Hand Skills Sharp Beyond the 1% MATCH Extreme Event for Gunfighters Kulcsar + Thomas Rehn 4p Holschen Ellifritz Classroom Classroom Classroom Hand-to-Hand Range Range Range Range 1 2 3 Bay 1 2 3 4 Police-Citizen Integrating Street 8a All About Optics Contacts Encounter Skills Skubis Concealed Carry Recoil Domestic Weems Haggard 9a & the Modern Management Defensive 10a Gunners in Chairs Woman Getting Your Gun (Repeat) Handgunning Critical Skills Home Invasions Whitlock Sharp Farnam MATCH Getting Coffee in the Fight & Drills (Repeat) Givens 11a Greco Burch Dobbs Noon SATURDAY SATURDAY 1p Trauma Care The Five W’s for Pets of Risk Practice & Active Killer Experiential Street Encounter Refinement 2p Pugliese Aprill Social Shotgun Response Learning Lab Shooting Skills for the Givens 3p Correcting Monk AIWB Concealment Douglas Murphy Armed Citizen MATCH Shooting Errors Theory Hill 4p Rehn Keepers Classroom Classroom Classroom Hand-to-Hand Range Range Range Range 1 2 3 Bay 1 2 3 4 Ammo Update 8a Saps & Jacks SHOOT (Repeat) Topper Lindenman Street Encounter OFF 9a Shooting Skills Mission Drives Police-Citizen Handgun Disarming Critical Skills (Repeat) 10a All About Optics Murphy Changing Gears Gear (Repeat) Contacts (Repeat) (Repeat) Skills (Repeat) & Drills (Repeat) Chandler + Ray 11a Bolke Weems Skubis Fuller Dobbs Noon SUNDAY SUNDAY Evolution of Surviving the Practical 1p Controversial Firearms Training Extreme Event (Rpt) Folding Knife Technical Skills Acquittals Close Range 2p Givens (Repeat, Extended) Holschen Fry for Tactical Carbine Ayoob Success (Repeat) 3p The Changing Face Martial Arts for Medical Response Hearne of the Industry Middle-Agers on the Range (Rpt) White 4p Johnson + Qadir Moses Causey www.Rangemaster.com Page 5 of 25 PLEASE NOTE: No sign-up is required for classroom blocks. Live-fire blocks and the Experiential Learning Lab are filled by advance sign-up only. Rangemaster RSOs will have the official list of approved participants for these blocks.