One of the advantages of having been assigned to a “Special Mission Unit” is that I got to take our assaulters to hit just about every shoot house in the US. Now, that is an exaggeration, of course, but we did hit many shoot houses over the years, both stateside and overseas. Why did we waste so much taxpayers’ money traveling to these shoot houses? Our home duty station had 7 shoot houses on the same base. However, six of them had the same floor plan. So, how long does it take an assault force to memorize every nook and cranny of two floor plans? Not long? So, you lose training benefit. A good assault force needs to be constantly training to hit new structures that they are not familiar with. Better to train and make mistakes here in training, than overseas in combat.
There are hundreds of shoot houses across the United States; many owned by local law enforcement or other government agencies. Some belong to privately owned companies, like T1G or Darcy. No matter who owns them, all these shoot houses offer training opportunities. Some of these shoot houses are good; some are great. Some have excessive restrictions; others allow great latitude in scenario and TTP development. So, which shoot house should you chose?
That brings us to the purpose of this video. Whether you are a Troop Sergeant Major looking for your next training gig, a SWAT commander looking for some advanced training, or a band of like-minded neighbors wanting to work through some “home defense” drills; you need to know what to look for when looking to rent a new shoot house.
All shoot houses are not created equal. What works for one unit will not work for another. Some may need a 360 degree live-sniper engagement capability. Others may need multi-story shoot houses. Some may require rifle live-fire, while others may be fine with just Frang or Simunitions.
If they allow explosive breaching, do they allow the kind of charges that you need to train with? Some LE units only use DetCord door charges, while other government agencies use every type of specialty charge known to man. Finding out before you get there, that they will or will not allow your breachers to use their “real world” charges may be the difference between choosing that location or going somewhere else.
So, watch the video. I try to cover all the little choices and options that we used to be faced with when trying to decide which training location to go to. I might cover a couple that you had forgotten to ask about. You only have a limited training budget. So, spend that money wisely and train where you can get the most bang for the buck. Questions? Leave them below and as always… Thanks for watching. Strength & Honor, TR.
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This would be a good first date lmaoo. We need kill houses for civilians, don't even gotta be real guns
if I had the money I’d get a small shoot house built
Best shoot house I have been to is in DTLA but almost no allowance of Live heavy. Mostly simulation rounds though preferably airsoft. 😑 Has a theatre two floors and half broken doors and half completely locked doors with tears in the roof were people can hide.
What kind of wood need to be use in firing house
One of these days I'm gonna download autoCAD and design the most butthole puckering shoothouse known to man.
It will be deep underground, entry training part of the whole experience
It will have wildly varying light levels and light sources from pitch black areas that might randomly turn on a high lumen seizure inducing NOD frying irregular strobe, to well lit areas that might suddenly go completely dark when you're halfway through the sector then a speaker somewhere starts playing the sound of boots coming fast from at least 3 different directions with random popup targets activating
Crawlspaces
Shoulder hugging tunnels that twist every few feet and have crawls and climbs and ambush cubbyholes in weird L shapes with targets on rails, forcing you to use your sidearm or maybe even just knife, maybe with rags and wires and dummy explosives hanging from the ceilings every foot so at random with a simulated hostage situation at the end getting increasingly intense
Whole place will be wired to play Benny Hill Theme edited to include sounds from ogrish videos and stuff
I could call it Satan's Intestines or something
Can one build a private shoot house? What's the checklist one should undertake? What's the cost range of it? What's the permission required for it? Can a normal civilian practice in any kind of shoot house? What kind of license & permission he will require? Anyone here who's interested in making a shoot house or practicing in one?
I have been there for contracting.
So you were assigned to a JSOC unit? Or a SMU within ASOC or SOCOM? Or is that classified?
What does a building like that cost to build??
what if I would like to make my own shoot house. What can I make the external walls out of so I don't have to worry about bullets coming out of it????? Ive seen tires with sand or clay pounded into them is that an option?
Questions:
1:30 Am I supposed to shoot her? That looks like a perfectly reasonable law-abiding Second-Amendment-supporting civilian, to me.
Wouldn't cameras be better than a catwalk? Not only does it allow you to rewatch, get better angles, and quickly share the experience, but it also allows the people to use high ready without any accidental injuries or deaths.
Are there traditional flat ranges or a KD range at T1G? What about demo/AT? Basically could you do a week of train up with a shoothouse as the culmination exercise?
I wish my school took us to one of these for a field trip
Free the people. Combat knowledge for All.
What type of initial investment? What acreage? Do you do consulting?
I am in the process of opening a tactical range for instruction and private practice. I want to include a shoot house at some point but have no idea of insurance and other business aspects of it. Could you possibly put me in contact with anyone you know that might be able to help? If so, my email is jay@crusadertacticalacademy.com
Awesome !!!
Terrorist chairs…
One of the biggest issues I see with shoot houses is lack of furniture and other objects in the room. This is a big issue, maybe not as much overseas but especially for law enforcement. Watch any high risk warrant breach and you’ll see guys get jammed up with couches in the middle of rooms and junk all over the floor. If you’re trying to train realism maybe they should start putting in more furniture and dump a box of legos out on the floor.
This gives me the slightly hairbrained idea of getting financed, buying land, building at least to these standards and then start leasing out time to LE, military, and ccw trainers
Karl, what is the name of your camuflage?
Awesome video..
Thank You Karl, it’s would be BAD ASS if I could make a couple runs through your shoot house. One day, ya never know…..
Thank You for everything you have given us out here in YouTube land….
BIG RON OUT…..
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What makes a good shoot house. Karl and his Pepsi story. That should be the next Movie I hope to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE
Wpuld someone make a list of shoot houses in the usa ranked from best to worst