Cold Weather Carbine

Date Revised: 06 February 2020

Please read and understand this document prior to teaching the

class. If you have any questions please feel free to reach me at any
time (802-578-1573 or andy.roy@sigsauer.com).
Description: Designed to test and improve the skills of the modern semi-automatic
rifle/carbine user, this course focuses on range exercises to develop rifle
handling, manipulation, marksmanship, and maintenance.

Agenda:

 Rifle/carbine carry and presentation, Low Ready only.

 Fundamental marksmanship
 Offset
 Reloading, Tac and Bolt Lock
 Transitions to Pistol
 Bi Lateral Shooting
 Multiple target engagement
 Shooting on the Move, Pivots/Turns/Forward
 Alternate Positions
 Barricades

Prerequisites: This is an intermediate level class. Completion of Defensive Rifle or an

equivalent 2-day rifle course required. The student needs to know and be
able to demonstrate safe gun handling, weapon system familiarity, and
foundational marksmanship skills.

Students failing to meet and maintain our safety requirements and/or who
cannot meet and immediately demonstrate the minimum skills required for
the specific class may be removed from training. Please ensure you have
read through the class description and fully understand our prerequisites
before registering.

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 Description of Content

Provided to Student Pen, Sticker

Hearing Protection, Eye Protection, Pistol and Magazines, Holster,

Available to Student
Magazine Holder

Ammunition 500 Rounds Rifle / 100 Rounds Pistol

Additional Materials n/a

Targets Doug targets, steel chest plates, IDPA/USPSA targets

Instructor mindset:

o NOT taught to the lowest common denominator. This is a skill builder and
students must have at least a Defensive Rifle level skill to build on.
o Be on the range and shooting as efficiently as possible.
o Crawl, Walk, Run method on the range.
o All drills demonstrated with speed and accuracy (do as I do) .
o Enforce accuracy with speed, tape misses, keep targets clean, and change them
out as needed.

1. 0830: Check In, Welcome, and Area Familiarization

a. Welcome students and discuss what the Sig Academy has to offer and cover the physical
layout. Point out the location of bathrooms and the coffee/water locations. Briefly
mention the pro shop and the associated discounts available to students.
b. Briefly describe the course and give an overview of topics covered. Discuss what the
course will cover and will not cover. Discuss who the course is intended for.
c. Let students know where they can find their lunches if they were ordered at the pro
shop. For weekend classes, hand out coupons to local restaurants as needed.
d. Monday - Friday
i. Ensure students have checked into the pro shop and have received all course
materials.
ii. If a student arrives to class and isn’t on the roster, send them to the Pro Shop.

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 e. Weekends
i. Pass around the roster and ensure students sign in
ii. If there is yellow next to a student’s name, instructors must check for a
Concealed Carry Permit of Law Enforcement credentials. Make sure their ID or
credentials haven’t expired. Take a photo of their Concealed Carry Permit or
Law Enforcement credentials and email Emily (Emily.Cole@sigsauer.com).
1. If they don’t have a Concealed Carry Permit or Law Enforcement
credentials, have them fill out an affidavit. Affidavits will be in the
box/folder prepared by the office staff or are available in the Pro Shop.
Once filled out, send them to the pro shop to have the affidavit
notarized. Pro Shop employees can notarize the affidavit. Do not allow
the student to continue the course without verifying their affidavit was
notarized.
2. If the affidavit is unable to be notarized for any reason, ask the student
for proof of paid background check. The receipt will suffice to begin
training. See example.
iii. If a student arrives in class and isn’t on the roster, this isn’t a problem.
Sometimes late registrations don’t show up on the roster. However, if this
occurs, email Concealed Carry Permit, Law Enforcement credentials, or have
them fill out an affidavit (see #1 above)

Background Check Receipt Example

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 0835: Introductions
a. Introduce yourself.
b. Conduct student introductions. Have students meet a “new best friend”. After 10 minutes
of student interaction, have students introduce their new best friend to the class. Make
sure they include the following information when presenting the new best friend...
i. Name
ii. Hometown/Occupation
iii. What type of gun they brought (or if they’re borrowing a gun)
iv. An observable, achievable goal for the day (focused, not broad)
1. This is where the course curriculum will come from. Take notes to
keep track of all the skills, obstacles, or challenges they want to
overcome.
2. Once you have these written down, begin to think of logical
progression to achieve these training goals.

2. 0845: Safety form and liability waiver

a. Complete each section of the safety form. Discuss each component as it is covered and
demonstrate as needed. If needed, discuss the safety bullets in depth and apply it to real
life and range scenarios. Emphasize that muzzle management and trigger finger discipline
need to be maintained during any/all manipulations of the pistol to include holstering.
Knowing correct status of the pistol, and situational awareness are key safety factors as
well from the 103 class and beyond.
b. **Discuss pertinent safety considerations with cold weather and mitigation procedures to
reduce the threat of cold weather injuries**.
i. Mechanisms of Body Temperature Regulation handout below.
ii. Hypothermia (Low Heat)
1. Body is losing more than it can generate
2. Shivering begins
3. Tired/Irritable
4. Slurred speech/lack of coordination
5. Shivering stops
6. Death
iii. Frost Nip
1. Mild form of frostbite
2. Skin pales or turs red and feels very cold
3. Continued exposure leads to prickling and numbness in the affected area
4. As skin warms, you may feel pain and tingling
5. Frost nip does not permanently damage the skin
iv. Frost Bite
1. Cold skin and prickling feeling
2. Numbness
3. Red, white, bluish-white or grayish-yellow skin
4. Hard or waxy-looking skin
5. Clumsiness due to joint and muscle stiffness
6. Blistering after rewarming in severe cases
v. (C.O.L.D.) Treatment and Prevention
1. Clean layers- light and fluffy, no dirt or perspiration
2. Overheating- adjust layers to meet exertion levels
3. Loose layers- Dead air buffering, good circulation

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 4. Dry- avoid cottons, brush off snow
vi. Predisposing factors
1. Age
2. Medical Conditions- diabetic nerve damage
3. Alcohol
4. Caffeine
5. Nicotine
c. Complete the liability waiver. Collect and confirm forms are completely filled out

3. 0900: Move to range, issue guns (if needed)

4. 0910: Medical Brief/ Range orientation

a. Show students where the medical kit is located (central location easily accessible)
b. Assign primary and alternate for the following duties and responsibilities
i. 911 phone call (training accident, Sig Sauer academy in Epping NH)
ii. Ambulance link up and escort (make sure primary and alternate have their keys
and are in separate vehicles that aren’t blocked in)
iii. Medical attention (instructor is primary unless there is a paramedic or doctor)
iv. Conduct a brief back of duties and responsibilities

5. 0915: Issue ammo (500 rounds rifle and 100 rounds pistol per student)

6. 0920: Confirm Zero

a. One 30 round magazine
b. Briefly discuss the zeroing procedure, natural POA, brightness settings on reticles, and
muzzle management getting into and out of the prone position.
c. Fire five (5) rounds, everyone on safe, stand up, walk down and make adjustments.
d. Continue until all are zeroed. If students are zeroed before the end of 30 rounds, have
them continue to group.

7. 0945: Warm Up Hold Over and Walk Backs

a. With 10 rounds, demonstrate and reiterate the importance of knowing your
holdover.
b. Shoot 5 rounds while aiming at one of the small bullseyes, on safe and move up
to point our the POA and POI shift and why.
c. Shoot 5 rounds holding over attempting to put all rounds into the center of the
bullseye.
d. Have students do the drill on their own and observe.
e. With the remaining 20 rounds perform a walk back drill with 5 rounds each at the
5, 10, 15, and 25 yard lines. Emphasize that the reticle needs to hold over to get
the bullets in the hit zone.

8. 1000: Skill Building

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 a. Based on instructor’s assessment of student performance, safety and abilities
during zeroing, warm up and walk backs begin to formulate the day’s training
plan.
b. Take the list of student training requests and prioritize them into the crawl, walk,
run methodology.
c. Take breaks as needed based off round counts and student assessment.
d. Manipulation Drills from Defensive Rifle:
a. Start with these to get students more familiar with manipulating the
weapon, actuating the safely properly and brushing up on the
fundamentals. Use this as an opportunity to observe proficiency and
gauge class progression.
b. Low Ready:
i. Emphasize “Sight, Safety, Trigger” on the way up and “Trigger,
Safety, Sight” on the way down.
c. Ready or “Tac” Reloads:
i. Explain the reason behind the ready reload and demonstrate a
few options like the L, Cigar, V, etc.
ii. Check to see if any students are left handed and are using a rifle
without an ambi mag release. If so demonstrate the methods
specific to their set up.
d. Bolt Lock Reloads:
i. Discuss the steps to bolt lock reload and slowly demonstrate.
ii. Combine the Ready reload and the Bolt Lock reload into one
drill to save time and add another task if students can handle it.
iii. 1,2,3 round reload competition
e. Bilateral Shooting:
i. No steel targets closer than 50 yards.
ii. Slowly talk through the steps emphasizing the safety during the
switch.
e. Transition to pistol:
a. Emphasize the need for safety drawing and returning to the holster. Do a
few iterations of pistol only prior to introducing the transition from rifle
to holster.
i. During the draw, reiterate the draw sequence, when the finger
can go on the trigger, follow through sight picture, etc.
ii. During the holster, make sure to de-cock and safe if they have
them before moving to the holster. Reiterate “check finger,
check status, check holster, then holster”
iii. Conduct drills until you are comfortable with student’s ability to
perform the draw and holster safely.
b. Talk through and demonstrate how to transition to pistol, check rile,
holster and reload or clear malfunction in the rifle.
c. 1, 2, 3 drill, 1, 2, 3 Malfunction drill, time students to beat their own
previous time.

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 f. Target transitions:
a. Transition between points on one target, failure drill.
b. Transition between students targets, Ensure no shoot throughs onto steel
closer than 50 yards.
c. Chaos drill, 1 to 5 Drill, etc.
g. Movement and Shooting:
a. Pivots and Turns
i. Emphasize muzzle management during turns.
ii. Turn in the direction you look not into the unknown.
b. Move forward while shooting
i. Maintain firing line integrity by stressing peripheral vision.
ii. Increase moving distance, multiple points on one target, multiple
targets, or other ways to increase difficulty depending on class
aptitude for the skill.
h. Timed TCS’s
a. Low Ready, 1 round rifle
i. Target zone is the face circle
ii. Time standard is 3.5 sec
b. Bilateral, 2 rounds rifle
i. 8” hit zone
ii. Time standard is 5.75 sec
c. 2 bolt lock 2, 4 rounds rifle
i. 8” hit zone
ii. Time standard is 8.0 sec
d. 1-2-3 Drill, 4 rounds rifle/2 rounds pistol
i. 8” hit zone
ii. Time standard is 12.5 sec
e. 10 bolt lock 1, 11 rounds rifle
i. 8” hit zone
ii. Time standard 10.5 sec
f. 3 target 180 turn, 2-1-2 Rifle / 2-1-2 Pistol, 5 rounds rifle/5 rounds rifle
i. 8” hit zone
ii. 11.0 sec
g. Have students keep their own time and see if they can improve upon
them. They aren’t trying to beat anyone else’s time, just their own.
h. Barricades
i. Emphasize height over bore offset.
ii. Demonstrate stance changes depending which side of the
barricade they exit from.
iii. People are predisposed to pick up on patterns of predictability,
so exit from a different point on the barricade each exposure to
the target.
iv. 9 hole drill, kneeling or sitting, 1,2,3 drill with barricade,
forward movement to the next barricade, etc.

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 i. Jungle Run
i. If class is proficient enough for the course of fire.
ii. Try to get another instructor to assist.
j. Suicide Drill (30 rounds) See below for drill explanation
k. Hunt Evaluation (20 rounds) See below for drill explanation

9. 4:30: Range clean up

a. Paper targets in the trash bins and stands spaced properly.
b. All steel repainted and stands spaced properly.
c. Barricades stacked up neatly.

10. 4:44: Collect Equipment/ Clean Weapons

11. 5:00: Graduation

a. End of the day round robin
b. Discuss future classes
c. Hand out certificates
d. Explain discount codes on back of certificates

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Suicide Drill (30 rounds)
a. The purpose of this drill is to make sure students have good self-management.
b. Set up two lanes (or three if the range allows) with cones at the 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, and 25m
lines.
c. Set up one Doug target in front of each lane d. Demonstrate drill first and the talking points
with each drill
e. On the timer, run from the target to the 5m line, turn and fire five rounds center mass
f. Run to the target, touch the target, and run to the 10m line and fire four rounds center mass
g. Run to the target, touch the target, run to the 15m line and fire three rounds center mass
h. Run to the target, touch the target, run to the 20m line and fire two rounds center mass
i. Run to the target, touch the target, run to the 25m line and fire one round to the face
j. Misses are +5 seconds.
k. Mark and track raw time + misses for a total score
l. Goal is 45 seconds slick, 60 seconds with full kit for LE/MIL m. Repeat a second time to try
and beat scores
n. Discussion points: This drill checks PT, accuracy, efficient movement, efficient mounting of
the gun, and self-management. Self-management is the key to success. Initially at the 5m line the student
is close to the target and fresh. The student should be shooting quickly. As the student gets further into the
drill, his physical state will change and the distance changes as well. They should take the time they need
at each station to get good hits.

Hunt Evaluation (20 Rounds)

a. Inform students that they will take an evaluation designed to test their ability to get into and out
of positions quickly
b. The hit zone is the 8” circle on the Doug target
c. The drill is shot at the 100m, 75m, 50m, and 25m
d. Only time 2 students at a time so they can hear the par time
e. Do not talk through the talking points related to the drill, this is meant to be an evaluation done
cold.
f. Have students line up on the 100m line. On the timer and from a standing position, students
will drop down to the prone position and fire five rounds. Par time is 8 seconds. Students cannot fire after
the par time
g. Have students move to the 75m line. On the timer and from a standing position, students will
drop into a seated position and fire five rounds. Par time is 14 seconds. Students cannot fire after par time.
h. Have students line up on the 50m line. On the timer and from a standing position, students will
drop into a kneeling position and fire five rounds. Par time is 11 seconds. Students cannot fire after the
par time.
i. Have students line up on the 25m line. On the timer, students will fire 5 rounds from a standing
position. The par time is 5 seconds. Students cannot fire after the par time.
j. Place rifle on safe and mark/paste targets. Have students write their score (number of good hits
out of 20) in the upper corner of the target.
k. Discussion points: Remember the kneeling and seated positions from defensive rifle. Students
should develop a “go to” kneeling and seated position that they can always quickly get into. This position
should provide maximum stability and accuracy.

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 Annex A: Abridged Outline
1. 0830: Welcome and area familiarization
2. 0835: Introductions
3. 0845: Safety form and liability waiver ** Specific emphasis on C.O.L.D.**
4. 0900: Move to range, issue guns
5. 0910: Medical brief
6. 0915: Issue ammo
7. 0920: Zero
8. 0945: Warm up
9. 1000: Skill Building
10. 430: Range clean up
11. 4:45: Gun cleaning/turn in
12. 5:00: AAR

Annex B: Drill Sheet

Day 1
Drill Distance (In Yards) Target Rounds Total Rounds
Zero 30,50, or 100 White SSA; Varied 30  
Walk Backs 25 White SSA; Varied 30 500 Rounds
TCS's 7 Doug; 8" Chest 310
Jungle Run 225-25 Steel 70
Suicide Drill 25 Doug; Varied 30
Hunt Eval 100 Doug; 8" Chest 30

Annex C: Equipment List

Student Equipment / Setup
         
Carbine with three magazines  
Pistol with three magazines  
Magazine pouches  
Sling and holster  
Eye Pro  
Ear Pro        
Drill Supplies

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Barricades  
Pac Timer        

Range Supplies
         
Binder Clips  
Spray Glue  
White Paint  
Black Paint  
Markers  
Range Tools      
Targets
         
Doug  
Various Steel      
Ammunition
         
Match
300 Grade    

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