Snubby Revolver: address realistic situations
This is not a beginning shooting course! Students are expected to have completed CCW- level or greater training prior to taking this class. Students should be able to safely handle their firearm, load and unload it, and be able to safely draw from the holster before enrolling. If students do not have these necessary skills they will be removed from class.
This course is designed to teach students how to most effectively employ a short-barreled revolver in a defensive situation.
Students will need to provide equipment needed for this class.
Topics Covered:
- Choosing optimal revolvers and support gear
- Holsters and carry issues
- Shooting quickly and accurately with a snubby revolver
- Recoil mitigation techniques
- Reloading techniques using loose cartridges, speed loaders, and speed strips
- Close quarters shooting with the revolver
- One handed firing with both strong and support hands
- Strategic application of the snubby revolver in combat
**Class from 10am-6pm | **Students must pre-register and provide a lunch
Greg Ellifritz
- Greg Ellifritz is Active Response Training's president and primary instructor.
- Greg recently retired after serving 25 years as a police officer. During his tenure, Greg spent 13 years as the full-time tactical training officer for a central Ohio police department. In that training position, he was responsible for developing and instructing all the in-service training for his 55-officer agency. In addition to the training position, he also served as patrol officer, rangemaster, weapons armorer, bike patrol officer, bike patrol coordinator, sniper, and field training officer during his career.
- He instructed classes at the Tactical Defense Institute for 17 years and served as a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, active shooter, impact weapons, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.
- Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 85 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty topics. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has successfully completed more than 4,500 hours of documented formal training with the leading firearms, empty hand fighting, and edged weapons instructors in the country.
- Greg designed the curriculum for the first law enforcement defensive knife class ever presented at the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy. He taught that police knife class to officers from more than 10 different states for numerous years.
- He has a master’s degree in public policy and management with a focus on criminal justice policy issues and has contributed to several publications and websites including: ‘The Firearms Instructor,” “Ohio Police Chief,” “Combat Handguns,” Survivalblog.com, “Concealed Carry Magazine,” Primedia's "Personal & Home Defense Annual," “Police One,” "Recoil Magazine," and “American Handgunner.”
Class details
Pre Requisite – Concealed Carry Permit Holder
Skill Level – Intermediate
Equipment –
- Revolver with a barrel length of three inches or less
- Quality belt holster (inside or outside the waistband) or pocket holster. No ankle holsters, shoulder holsters, or fanny packs.
- Eye and ear protection (electronic prefered)
- 300 rounds of ammunition
- At least two speed strips
- At least two speed loaders
- Grips that will allow the use of chosen speedloader
Offered – Once Per Year
Class Size – 14
Classroom – N/A
Ammo – 300 rounds
Range – 8 hours
Cost – $250
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