💥 Precision Rifleman: Practical Scoped Rifle Mastery 💥

Precision Rifleman is a practical field precision rifle course designed to help shooters build real-world  capability with their scoped rifle beyond traditional flat-range or benchrest shooting. This course evolved from Patriot Training’s earlier “Citizen Sniper” and "Hike N Shoot" coursework while expanding its focus on practical precision riflecraft, positional shooting, and accountable hits under realistic conditions.

Training is built around measurable shooter improvement, not instructor identity, tactical theatrics, or training mythology.

Students will learn to make accurate, repeatable hits from 100 to 500 yards by developing stable shooting positions, refining recoil control, managing ballistic data, reading wind conditions, and applying holdover solutions with confidence. Training emphasizes practical problem-solving and adaptable field shooting skills that transfer beyond the square range into defensive, competitive, hunting, and practical field applications.

Unlike traditional bench-focused precision rifle classes, Precision Rifleman emphasizes practical shooting positions, improvised support methods, rapid target engagement, recoil management, communication, and accountable shot placement under realistic conditions and time pressure.

Students are encouraged to measure their own performance growth over time and return periodically to refine capability as both equipment and skill continue to evolve.

✅ You prefer a class environment built around mentorship, camaraderie, approachable instructors, and continuous improvement rather than ego or intimidation.

✅ You want to develop the ability to make consistent precision hits from 100 to 500 yards using practical field shooting positions.

✅ You want to move beyond benchrest-style shooting and build real confidence with a scoped rifle in dynamic conditions.

✅ You’re ready to learn wind reading, holdovers, ballistic data management, and practical rifle problem-solving with reduced guesswork.

✅ You want to build stable, adaptable shooting positions using terrain, backpacks, tripods, barricades, and improvised support structures.

✅ You want to improve recoil management and shot accountability for faster, more repeatable follow-up shots at distance.

✅ You want practical precision rifle training focused on measurable performance rather than fantasy-role theatrics or internet lore.

Prerequisites:

• Safe gun handling skills 

• Ability to manipulate your rifle — loading, unloading, reloading, clearing malfunctions

• A rifle with a scope (MIL or MOA preferred)

📅 Saturday & Sunday, May 15-16, 2027 

📅 Saturday & Sunday, October 9-10, 2027 

🕗 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM  

📍 Mountain Top Gun & Archery Range, 11564 Harrison Ferry Rd, McMinnville, TN 

👉 Seats are limited — lock in your spot today!

Precision Rifleman is a two-day, progressive scoped-rifle course built around making accurate, accountable hits under practical field conditions. Training begins by establishing a reliable rifle and optic system, confirming zero, and developing the fundamentals necessary for consistent precision.

Students then learn to understand and apply their rifle's external ballistics, developing practical DOPE and using both dialing and holds to solve increasingly distant shooting problems. Range estimation, wind, and environmental conditions are introduced as distance increases and small errors begin to matter.

From there, the emphasis shifts from simply making hits to making them without the luxury of a perfect shooting position. Students build stable positions using their body, sling, bipod, rucksack, barricades, tripods, and other available support while learning to quickly adapt to the terrain and problem in front of them.

As the course progresses, those individual precision-rifle skills are applied under increasing time pressure and in coordinated team exercises, culminating in practical engagements that require students to combine marksmanship, ballistic knowledge, fieldcraft, communication, and decision-making.

Know the rifle. Solve the distance. Build the position. Make the hit.

TOPICS INCLUDE

• All Patriot Training live fire classes have a thorough safety briefing and medical plan. 
• Precision rifle fundamentals
• Proper sight picture and sight alignment
• Rifle grip, recoil mitigation, follow up shot management
• Stable shooting position development: standard and improvised positions
• Practical field marksmanship from 100 to 500 yards
• Bipod, tripod, rucksack, and barricade use
• Range estimation techniques
• Wind reading and practical wind calls
• MIL and MOA concepts and application
• Ballistic data management (DOPE)
• Dialing corrections and holdover techniques
• Rapid and time-constrained target engagements
• Team communication and coordinated engagement concepts
• Practical urban and rural precision rifle applications
• Use of field-expedient support methods and improvised rests
• Students will have an opportunity to test the skills developed throughout the course against an objective performance standard. 
•  ...and more! 

GOOD TO KNOW

• PREREQUISITES:
  • Scoped Rifle
  • Safe Gun handling skills. At ALL times. 
  • Ability to manipulate your rifle - loading, unloading, reloading, malfunctions.
• If you need to shoot only 20 rounds over 8 hours, this class is not for you. If you already know how to shoot, you will LOVE this class! 
• All PATRIOT TRAINING Class pricing includes any applicable range access charges - no surprise "gotcha" fees!

GUNS & GEAR 

• SCOPED rifle
  • MIL, MOA, and regular crosshairs are all welcome. 
  • Chambered in .223/5.56 or larger
  • Your rifle MUST have A BIPOD  
• Extra magazines for mag fed rifles.   Please feel free to prep mags ahead of class. 
• 250 rounds ammunition - same brand, same type. No green tip or armor piercing ammo. We will be shooting steel targets. No handloads. DO NOT bring steel cased ammo for your AR-15. You will hate yourself. Consider yourself warned. 
• A Rear shooting bag - Patriot Training recommends the Armageddon "Squishy Rear Bag"
• Shooting/Support Bag strongly recommended, not Required (see below). Patriot Training recommends the Armageddon "Schmedium Mid Size Game Changer Bag" 
• Notepad & pen 
• Eye protection & ear protection. 
• Tools to make sight adjustments.

FOR BEST RESULTS

• AN Accurized Rifle capable of 1.5 MOA or better.  AR15 or AR10 preferred - Accurized Bolt gun also acceptable. 
• MATCH grade ammunition. 
• 10X OPTIC with MIL reticle and external knobs for adjustments
• The "bunny ears" style shooting bag you find at your local sporting goods store will not work well for the shooting bag requirements. See below!
• A SLING (Patriot Training recommends a 2-point Vickers sling, Magpul MS style sling, or similar).

NICE TO HAVE

• Range Finder
• Spotting scope or binoculars. 
• Lawn chair optional
• Shooting Mat is optional. 
• Elbow pads optional
• Medical Kit / IFAK optional

NOTE: 

Classes are conducted outdoors in all reasonable weather conditions. Come prepared with appropriate clothing, hydration, sun/rain protection, medications, and whatever personal comfort items you require for a full day on the range. We will take a lunch break, but there will not be sufficient time to leave the training facility for food. Bring your lunch, snacks, and anything else you intend to eat during the training day. 

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