Pat McNamara (Mac) has 22 years of Special Operations experience, 13 of which were in 1st SFOD-D. He has extensive experience in hostile fire/combat zones in the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. He trains individuals at basic and advanced levels of marksmanship and combat tactics. When he worked in the premier special missions unit, he became an impeccable marksman, shooting with accurate, lethal results and tactical effectiveness. McNamara has trained tactical applications of shooting to people of all levels of marksmanship, from varsity level soldiers, and police officers who work the streets to civilians with little to no time behind the trigger. His military experience quickly taught him that there is more to tactical marksmanship than merely squeezing the trigger. Utilizing his years of experience, McNamara developed a training methodology that is safe, effective and combat relevant and encourages a continuous thought process. This methodology teaches how to maintain safety at all times and choose targets that force accountability, as well as provides courses covering several categories, including individual, collective, on line and standards. McNamara retired from the Army's premier hostage rescue unit as a Sergeant Major and is the author of T.A.P.S. (Tactical Application of Practical Shooting). Pat McNamara’s website: http://tmacsinc.com/

Course Info

Course: TAPS Pistol
Instructor: Pat McNamara
Date: December 1-2
Days: 2
Time: 8:30am to 4:00pm
Cost: $550
Location: Panteao Facility, 2040 Pine Plain Road, Swansea, SC 29160
COURSE OUTLINE:

This 2-day pistol course is presented by Patrick McNamara. McNamara spent twenty-two years in the United States Army in a myriad of special operations units. When he worked in the premier special missions unit, he became an impeccable marksman, shooting with accurate, lethal results and tactical effectiveness. McNamara has trained tactical applications of shooting to people of all levels of marksmanship, from varsity level soldiers and police officers who work the streets to civilians with little to no time behind the trigger.

Utilizing his years of experience, McNamara developed a training methodology that is safe, effective and combat relevant. This methodology encourages a continuous thought process and demands accountability. The course provides complex battle drills that are ambiguous in nature to encourage quick thinking and decisive action.

The 2-day course offering includes the following:

  • Lecture on proper weapons handling and safety
  • Conduct a diagnostic course of fire
  • Refresh the fundamentals and grouping exercises
  • Conduct individual and collective complex courses of fire which are ambiguous in nature to encourage quick thinking and decisive action
  • Mind set and focal cognition drills
  • Development of tailor made “Standards” courses of fire
  • Other topics covered and practiced are; grouping exercises with both primary and secondary weapon systems, target discrimination, use of barricades, movement into position, immediate action drills, ballistics 101, transitions, magazine changes, multiple target engagements and shooting on the move.
  • Escalation of training and intensity will vary depending on number of students and their skill level though the core of the course will always remain the same. We will tailor the training to the individual as well as the group.
Equipment:

Pistol and holster with 3 mags min and 900 rounds.

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