Make Ready Firearms Training

Make Ready Firearms Training Instructor-led firearms education focused on safety, fundamentals, and responsible skill development.

Principle-based training designed to build confidence in a structured learning environment.

🔫 TECHNIQUE TUESDAYMost people learn the draw starting from the holster. That's like learning a recipe by guessing at th...
05/26/2026

🔫 TECHNIQUE TUESDAY

Most people learn the draw starting from the holster. That's like learning a recipe by guessing at the ingredients.

You can't build toward a destination you've never been to. If you've never locked in what CORRECT feels like at full presentation — wrist set, grip pressures set, sights aligned, breath steady — then every draw rep is just you hoping something aligns by the time your arms are extended.

The fix: reverse engineer. Start at Stage 1 — FULL PRESENTATION. Sights aligned. Grip locked. Wrists locked. Pause. Memorize what that feels like. Then collapse ONE stage backward to compressed ready, maintaining both constants. Press back out. Does the sight return to the exact same spot? Only then do you move backward again — hands merge, then separate, then back to the holster. Each stage learned with the endpoint already burned into the nervous system.

When you finally run it forward from the holster, your body already knows where it's going. The sights don't appear because you found them — they appear because nothing changed on the way up.

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🔧 THURSDAY TUNE-UPPress out slowly. Open your eyes. Where did the dot end up? That's the data.The Compressed Ready Verif...
05/19/2026

🔧 THURSDAY TUNE-UP

Press out slowly. Open your eyes. Where did the dot end up? That's the data.

The Compressed Ready Verification Drill is the most underused diagnostic in pistol training — and it costs zero rounds. Here's how it works: set your grip at full presentation. Confirm the sights/dot are aligned exactly where you want them. Close your eyes. Collapse to compressed ready by folding ONLY the elbows — keep the wrists locked, keep grip pressure identical. Press back out. Open your eyes.

If the dot is in the same spot — congratulations, your two constants are holding. If the dot moved UP or DOWN, your wrist angle changed. If it moved LEFT or RIGHT, your grip pressure shifted. You now know exactly what to tune, and you didn't burn a single round of ammo.

Run this drill 20 times dry at the start of every session. It builds the kinesthetic awareness of what "locked" actually feels like — and it exposes every sneaky inconsistency your conscious mind has been hiding from you.

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🧠 MINDSET MONDAYYou can copy what you see on Instagram. Or you can understand WHY it works — and own something no one ca...
05/18/2026

🧠 MINDSET MONDAY

You can copy what you see on Instagram. Or you can understand WHY it works — and own something no one can take from you.

Most training locks shooters into someone else's playbook. You learn a technique. You rep it. You perform it. And the second conditions change — new gun, new gear, sore shoulder, cold range — the technique falls apart and you have nowhere to go.

Principle-based training flips that. Principles are universal. Gravity doesn't care about your height. Friction doesn't ask about your hand size. Leverage works the same for the 6'4" operator and the 5'2" first-time shooter. When you train the principle first, you can evaluate ANY technique — yours or someone else's — and determine if it works based on whether it obeys the principle.

Principles are the foundation. Techniques are the tools you build from them. And YOU are the architect.

This week: pick ONE thing you've been doing because someone told you to. Ask WHY. If you can't answer in terms of a principle — you don't understand it yet. You're copying.

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Force-on-Force training is back. June 28 · Spokane Valley.Real-World CCW Scenarios isn't about marksmanship — it's about...
05/18/2026

Force-on-Force training is back. June 28 · Spokane Valley.
Real-World CCW Scenarios isn't about marksmanship — it's about what you actually do when things get fast and uncertain. Short scenarios, structured debriefs, real lessons.
CCW holders, church safety teams, first-time FoF students — all welcome.
🗓️ Sun, June 28 · 9 AM–5 PM
📍 3 Aces P.S.O.C., Spokane Valley, WA
💵 $179 · 14 seats only

Next Level Pistol — 5/17/26Great class, great students, great outcomes. Sharp group, focused reps, real progress on the ...
05/18/2026

Next Level Pistol — 5/17/26
Great class, great students, great outcomes. Sharp group, focused reps, real progress on the line. Thanks to everyone who came ready to work — it showed in your targets.
Next up: FOF ECCW Scenarios — June 28.
Force-on-force scenario training for concealed carriers. This is where range skills meet real decisions under stress. Limited spots — link below to grab one.
— Chris, Make Ready Training

⚙️ MIDWEEK MECHANICSA bent wrist is a broken joint. Your recoil management lives or dies by the geometry of your bones.O...
05/13/2026

⚙️ MIDWEEK MECHANICS

A bent wrist is a broken joint. Your recoil management lives or dies by the geometry of your bones.

One of the three grip principles is biomechanical efficiency — and the rule is simple: STRAIGHT LINES ARE STRONG, ANGLES ARE WEAK. When the bones of your forearm are aligned in a straight line with the bore of the pistol, recoil energy travels back through the skeleton and into the body's center mass — where large muscle groups absorb it. When the wrist is bent, that same recoil energy bleeds into the joint, creating rotation, muzzle flip, and inconsistent sight return.

Check yourself: grip the pistol at full presentation. Look at the top of your forearm. Is it a straight line from elbow to front sight? If you see a break at the wrist, your bones are asking a joint to do a skeleton's job. Every shot.

The fix: stiffen the wrists,and forearm, create a force vector from your shoulder to the muzzle. The sights will come back to where they started — because the physics will let them.

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🔫 TECHNIQUE TUESDAYYour draw is only as fast as your elbow. Not your hand. Your elbow.Most shooters rip their hand towar...
05/12/2026

🔫 TECHNIQUE TUESDAY

Your draw is only as fast as your elbow. Not your hand. Your elbow.

Most shooters rip their hand toward the holster and drag their arm along with it. The gun flags all over the place, the grip arrives inconsistent, and the first motion out of the holster is already fighting to correct what the first motion into the holster broke.

The fix — Stage 4 of the draw: the gun arm pivots at the SHOULDER with the ELBOW leading the movement. The elbow rocks up and back first; the hand is carried along by the elbow's path, not the other way around. This does three things: it keeps the muzzle pointed safely downrange through the entire stroke, this makes the draw REPEATABLE — because the shoulder joint is a far more consistent pivot than the wrist and hand.

Try it dry today: put your thumb on your pec. Rock your elbow up. That's the path. Now put a gun in your hand and send the elbow first — every single rep.

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Day 2 of 5. Richland, WA.Instructor Development. Always training 👍
05/12/2026

Day 2 of 5. Richland, WA.

Instructor Development. Always training 👍

Your dot isn't lost. You moved it.The mistake: pressing out, not seeing the dot in the window, then tilting your head, s...
05/08/2026

Your dot isn't lost. You moved it.

The mistake: pressing out, not seeing the dot in the window, then tilting your head, shifting your grip, or cranking up the brightness to "find" it. All of those are compensations for a root cause — something changed between the holster and full presentation. The dot never went anywhere. You displaced it.

The physics: these two things move a red dot off the target path — wrist angle (vertical) and grip pressure (horizontal). If the dot is high in the glass, your wrist broke. If it's low, your wrist collapsed. If it drifted left or right, your grip pressure shifted mid-stroke. There is no third option.

The fix: establish a Master Grip IN the holster — web of hand high on the tang, lower three fingers locked, wrist LOCKED. Press out slowly. Do not adjust. Do not hunt. Open your eyes at full extension and check where the dot landed. THAT is your data. Now work backward to find what changed.

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