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Elm Fork Night Classes
Night Fighting - Pistol (November 16)
Use
of force situations, both inside and outside the home, occur primarily
under low light situations. This class is designed to build
skills to utilize your pistol under these conditions. Find additional details here.
Night Fighting - Rifle (November 30)
Use
of force situations, both inside and outside the home, occur primarily
under low light situations. This class is designed to build skills to
utilize your rifle under these conditions. Find additional details here.
Force on Force (December 7)
This
class will instruct students in real-world criminal and active shooter
situations. Class limited to first 15 students registered.
Sign up early as our previous two classes sold out. Find additional
details here.
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Big Changes at Tiger Valley
Several
long overdue projects have come to completion at Tiger Valley.
The first project was converting the main building into a
classroom. We had a four day lapse between DDM curriculums and
used this time to stud the walls, cover them in sheeting, insulate the
drop ceiling and add drop lighting. The last thing added was heat
and A/C, which in Texas you can’t live without. As an
instructor it’s great, as a student I know you will love the change
from barbarian to modern. Special thanks to the Triple
Canopy guys for lending a hand with the project, four days from start
to finish isn’t bad.
The next project was the new tower, it measures 60 feet high, 40 feet
long and 16 feet wide. The piers are 33 feet deep and 24 inches
around. As you can see the tower is constructed of I-beams 12
inches wide. The work was done by Sniper Construction, a friend
of Tiger Valley. The tower will give us 75 feet of elevation
above the targets at the 600 yard line. This elevation will cause
an angular change into the target that will force the shooter to do
some simple math to correct for his bullet strike. When you are
in an elevated position it all but makes reading trace
impossible. If you thought we had bad with on the firing line,
wait to you go 60 feet up in the air.
Once we get things settled down we are going to look at pushing the
envelope on the long range shots. We plan on building berms in
the impact area which will give us shots to 1500 yards.
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Fall Team Sniper Match - Sold Out
Tiger
Valley's annual fall team sniper match is now sold out. If you
would like to be added to the waiting list, please email your contact
information to info@tigervalley.com.
Find full details
about this event here.
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Bunker Down
-- T.J. Pilling
With the threat of all kinds of disasters (bio, nukes or natural) the idea of bugging out or holding in place comes up. Tiger Valley just
ran our annual Bug Out Drill, where 34 participants covered over 14
miles with physical and shooting challenges along the way. Some
participants take the event as a serious way to check themselves and
their gear for one possible response to a disaster - bugging out.
Those who have a place to retreat to are lucky, but only if they leave
early enough. Those who wait too long will be stuck in traffic
jams and run out of fuel long before they can cross the city
line. Then it becomes a long trek on foot, vulnerable to every
looter, thug and misfit they run into. You only have to look at
those stranded by hurricanes to become educated on mass evacuation
techniques. Moving during a disaster is a science of its
own. Little things that most don’t consider become important,
like lots of spare tires and fix a flat. A good friend of mine
was involved in hurricane relief. He said that everything they
had was running on flat or punctured tires. Roofing nails
littered the streets as well as all matter of tire puncturing
objects. Vehicles that they were told would run well got stuck in
washed up sand that had inundated the streets.
The vast majority of the population will have to bunker down and
wait. Bunkering down represents its own set of problems.
Let’s say you’re the meanest hombre on the block. Kids run from
you, the neighbors shake at the thought of running into you taking out
the garbage and your dog won’t even cross your path. You have
stocked food for years, you live alone and your house is a virtual
armory. What could go wrong?
If you have spent time hunting humans for a living you will find that
they all have things in common, the biggest is sleep. Even meth
heads have to sleep some time, and that makes them vulnerable.
The human body has this thing that happens around 3:30 or 4:00am, if
not the first night without it definitely the second.
If alone, you can only watch one way at a time. While you’re
looking one way, doors come off the hinges the other. And if all
else fails, gas. I know bad guys don’t carry CS gas but a burning
tire thrown through a widow will do just as well.
How does one person protect his assets? I don’t think he can
without help. Nothing survives well alone, be it the lone animal
that generally is in a herd or the lone person. Animals herd to
add extra eyes and ears to watch for the predators. Grass eaters
have adapted to being hunted by having eyes on the sides of their head
for better vision, meat eaters have frontal binocular vision for
judging range and speed.
The first thing I would have is a group I can trust, with skill sets I
need. Those skills first and foremost are security
oriented. I could have the best supplies in the world, but if I
can’t protect them they will perish in a hurry. I would have
those people ready to arrive at a designated point which could be
secured and maintained for a long duration. Shifts would be set
up for security purposes and all needed supplies would be gathered at
one point. Physical barriers would be erected to control movement
to the rally point, be it something as simple as parked vehicles.
If you have things that others want they will be hunting you and you
have to make taking it a painful process that they will determine is
too costly.
Have I oversimplified this? You bet. Added people require
more of everything, food, water and shelter. Make sure those who
wish to join your group are like minded and just not a drain on your
stores or protection. A short term bug in is complicated, a long
term is a disaster on biblical proportion. Anything you do will
put you ahead of those who do nothing.
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Range Address: Hwy 84 at Joe Russell Rd. | Prairie Hill, TX 76678
Mailing Address: 6309 Scottsboro Ln. | Garland, TX 75044
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