Skip to content - Course Title: Haven Evolution: Safety Through Community
- Format: 1.5 Hour Classroom + 2.5 Hour Guided Live Fire
- Prerequisites: Passing the Haven Applied Proficiency Drill.
- Required Equipment: 150 rounds of Ammunition. HTG-supplied weapons are available for students if needed. If you have your own firearm and holster (must be belt-worn; no shoulder or small-of-back holsters allowed), you should bring them. You will need to supply your own ammunition, whether for our gun or yours.
- Ideal For: Graduates of Haven Applied who are ready to move on to team tactics, tactical reloads, malfunction drills, and other more advanced skills and techniques
- About this course: While Haven Applied brought your skills into the real world, Haven Evolution adds the skillset necessary to work in concert with your community and to survive a more sustained defensive situation. Think multiple assailants, multiple magazines, and real-world situations like firearm malfunctions. Learn to move and communicate with your comrades as a team.
- Safety First: We will review the 4 Pillars of Safety. Yes, they are that important.
- The Mechanical “Firewall”: Working with unloaded functional firearms and dummy rounds, we will run various Malfunction drills.
- We will learn and start to build muscle memory around the three main types of malfunctions: Types 1, 2, and 3.
- Reloading From Cover: If at all possible, you need to get behind cover to clear a malfunction or reload.
- Work Space: Learn to keep your firearm in a ready position while performing reloads.
- Correct use of Cover: It’s not like the movies! Get some distance between you and your cover. Also, learn to recognize and evaluate Cover vs. Concealment
- Reload Types: Tactical vs. Emergency
- Movement and Communication: You’re not working as a team if you’re not communicating. We’ll work on the basic call-outs we’ll be using on the range.
- Safety Last: Range safety briefing – this one will be a little more involved than in the Applied course.
- Round Count: There will be 150 rounds of live fire.
- Malfunctions: Dry fire drills are important, but we need to practice what happens when you expect a bang, and you get a click.
- Cover and Reload: Learn to use cover, stay behind it, and reload while you’re there.
- Malfunctions with time pressure: You don’t have all day. Clear the jam, and get back in the fight.
- Peer Coordination: Communicate with your teammate so you can get help. Quickly resolve your issue. Communicate again when done.
- Final Scenario: Not quite a test, but definitely a challenge. 60 seconds to incorporate everything you’ve learned. That’s right. 60 seconds. And yes, you have to do it right.
