Course Overview
Intermediate Carbine 201 builds on your existing carbine and handgun skills in a focused, fast-paced training environment. This carbine course develops process, accuracy, performance under pressure, and confidence while reinforcing the connection between both platforms. This course requires prior training in Basic Carbine 101 and Basic Handgun 101, or equivalent experience.
In this multi-day course you will refresh core skills, review and optimize equipment setup, and strengthen the fundamentals needed to run both handgun and carbine platforms safely and effectively. The course is physical, engaging, and designed to challenge shooters who want to improve performance under realistic conditions.
Students must bring a carbine with three 30 round magazines , a 2-point sling, a full-size handgun with at least three magazines, belt mounted mag pouches, an OWB holster, 200 rounds of handgun ammo, 400 rounds of carbine ammo, and mission appropriate kit and clothing. Knee pads are recommended. We provide electronic hearing protection, shooting mats, spotting scopes / tripods, and AR magazine speed loaders. Firearms rental packages are available.
What You Will Learn
This course builds on foundational carbine skills and transitions students into more dynamic, real-world defensive or competitive applications. Training begins with a focused review of core technique to ensure safety, consistency, and confidence with the platform. Students reinforce key fundamentals through guided dry fire work and participate in structured exercises designed to sharpen situation awareness and decision making before moving to live fire.
Moving into live fire, participants advance into progressively more challenging drills that emphasize accuracy, stability, and control from a variety of positions and distances ranging from point blank to 200 yards. Team-based exercises reinforce communication, resource management and defensive problem solving under pressure, rounding out a comprehensive training experience that strengthens capability with both the carbine and handgun platforms.
