FARM Training Center

Intermediate Rifle Mechanics with Kinetic CONS & Emissary CONS
2026-04-10 09:00 - 2026-04-12 17:00 (America/Denver)
Join us for an intensive 3-day carbine course that will elevate your shooting skills from proximal engagement to extended ranges of 0-700+ yards. This unique collaboration between Jon Dufresne of Kinetic Consulting and Ryan D’Agostino of Emissary Consulting promises a challenging and rewarding experience for shooters looking to enhance their proficiency with rifles.
Course Overview
Day 1: Foundation Building

Focus: Flat Range Work
Distance: 0-100+ yards
Activities: You will engage in various drills designed to refine your basic shooting techniques, including stance, grip, sight alignment, trigger control, and follow-through. Emphasis will be placed on accuracy and consistency at shorter ranges to build a strong foundation for longer shots.

Day 2: Introducing Distance

Focus: Long-Range Shooting Fundamentals
Distance: 100-500+ yards
Activities: We will expand your skills by introducing longer distances. This day will cover topics such as wind reading, ballistic calculations, and the use of optics. Practical exercises will help you understand and apply these concepts in real-time, improving your confidence and competence at extended ranges.

Day 3: Advanced Techniques and Practical Application

Focus: Combining Distances and Positional Shooting
Distance: 0-700+ yards
Activities: The final day integrates the skills learned, featuring mini-stages and positional shooting drills. You will navigate various shooting scenarios that require quick transitions between different distances and positions, simulating more real-world conditions. This comprehensive approach ensures you can apply your skills in diverse and dynamic environments.

Course Details

Duration: 3 Days (24 hours total)
Times: Class begins at 0900 and runs until 1700 each day

Prerequisites
This course is designed for individuals who have prior shooting experience and demonstrate safe gun handling skills. Whether you are a seasoned shooter looking to refine your skills or an intermediate shooter aiming to expand your capabilities, this course will provide the training you need to excel.
Instructor Bios:

Jon served with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, deploying multiple times in various capacities. The Ranger Battalion also provided Jon with training and first hand experience in small unit tactics, airborne operations, field medicine, breaching, foreign languages and small arms.
Upon leaving the Army, Jon worked in executive protection and acted as a law enforcement consultant, molding his military experience into a contextual view of the threats faced outside of combat environments. Jon comes to the firearms industry with an ideal blend of military and citizen; shaping his courses to apply to Mil, LE and citizen students alike.

Also know as, @saving_ryans_privatez. Former Instructor of Achilles Heel Tactical and Modern Day Sniper. Current Owner/Instructorof Emissary Consulting and employee of Knight’s Armament. Passion for all things shooting related and teaching. Ryan currently works for Knights Armament doing government related work for them. Ryan has several years experience in training professional Military and Law Enforcement Snipers and civilians both foreign and domestic while working for other leading Instructor companies up until now where he became a one man show. Ryan am also a competitive shooter in multiple disciplines to include Pistol, Scoped Carbine, and Precision Rifle and have been very fortunate to obtain sponsorships in the firearm industry.

Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) with ShivWorks
2026-05-08 18:00 - 2026-05-10 18:00
The ShivWorks Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) course is a two-and-a-half-day (24-hour) block of instruction that offers a multi-disciplinary approach to building functional, combative handgun skills at zero to five feet. The course is designed to instill core concepts of seamless integration and provide the platform for aggressive problem solving during a life or death struggle at arm’s length or closer. We emphasize the common body mechanics that apply across different skill sets. That way, all combative software is reinforcing. Once students’ skill sets are ingrained, they will be stress inoculated with force-on-force drills using marking cartridges and protective equipment.
To be clear, this coursework is not for everybody. It is active, physical, and often quite a humbling experience. However, our students are young and old, male and female, large and small, outgoing and shy, white collar and blue collar, experienced and inexperienced. Regardless of your background, a positive attitude and an open mind will take you far in the ShivWorks curriculum.
Notes:

You do not need any martial arts or combative experience to attend this course. You only need the ability to safely deploy your handgun from the holster.
The first four hours of day two and three are live fire training. You can train from concealment or overtly outside the waistband; neither option will impact the quality of your training experience. You must be able to safely and competently deploy/shoot/manipulate your firearm. This is not a pistol 101 course, and a lack of basic weapons handling skills will result in you being asked to step off the firing line.

Day 1:
(Four Hours)

Criminal Assault Paradigm
Unequal Initiative Events
Managing Unknown Contacts
Practical Unarmed Combat or In-Extremis Knife modules

Day 2:
(Ten Hours)

Introduction to the components of the Combative Drawstrok
Building the #2 position in live-fire
Firing throughout the horizontal line of presentation
Off-hand fending positions
Default position
Basic empty hand blows
Theory of in-fight weapon access
Grounded basics

Day 3:
(Ten Hours)

Challenging the potential attacker
Preemptive weapon access
Multiple attackers
Negotiating the F.U.T.
ECQ Handgun retention in holster
ECQ handgun retention out of holster
Handgun recovery
Handgun striking

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Instructor Bio:
Craig Douglas (aka “SouthNarc”) is the founder of ShivWorks, a consortium of like-minded professionals devoted to training and product development in the emerging field of interdisciplinary problem-solving for self-defense. Craig retired from law enforcement after 21 years of service with the bulk of his career spent in narcotics and SWAT. Since 2003, Craig has been teaching globally under the ShivWorks brand and has conducted coursework on entangled shooting skills in nearly 40 states and nine foreign countries. He has taught for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, and to three branches of the U.S. military.
