Gun-RAT (G-RAT): Pistol Gunfighting

G-RAT Pistol Gunfighting is the foundation course of the Gun-RAT program. You train as a single operator, with no partner, no team, and no backup, and your mission is to get home safely every night. All training is done from concealment in your everyday carry clothes and gear, because that’s how you’ll be dressed when it happens.

What You’ll Learn

• Legal use of force: when you can shoot, and how your decision will be judged afterward.
• Situational awareness: seeing trouble coming and deselecting yourself as a target.
• Training the brain to fight: the OODA Loop, the reactionary gap, the body’s alarm response, and how to beat the freeze.

• Running the gun: grip, draw, presentation, movement, and sight alignment.
• Gun safety and daily weapons check.
• Sights, optics, and zeroing, including red-dot co-witness and the 10-yard zero.
• Proactive and reactive reloads and manipulation sets.
• Reactive gunfighting (F-RAC): getting off the X against gun-on-gun and knife-on-gun attacks.
• After-action assessment: what to do after the last shot.

Who Should Attend

Law enforcement officers and civilians who carry a concealed handgun regularly and want to be ready for a close-range, real-world attack. This is not a marksmanship class or a sport-shooting course. It is about surviving a violent encounter and its legal aftermath.

What to Bring

Your everyday carry handgun and holster, worn as you normally carry them, with at least one magazine carrier, plus a minimum of four 15-round magazines (or equivalent capacity), 1,500 rounds of practice ammunition, 15 rounds of your carry ammunition for the zero, and 20 dummy rounds. Bring eye and ear protection and a personal medical kit with a tourniquet. No duty belts, battle belts, vests, or body armor. Training guns, training knives, airsoft guns, and double-feed training rounds are provided for the drills.