MilCun Training Center... "Focusing on Performance"
For Police, Military & Security
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For Police, Military & Security
Personnel We at MilCun are proud to serve our "thin blue line". We have deep roots in the professional brotherhood, with Keith having over 25 years experience as a military sniper in two armies, and as a sniper instructor and combat shooting team coach in the Canadian Forces. When we started to develop our first courses (the police sniper series) we applied Keith's expertise and input from police tactical teams (especially Peel Regional, Ottawa and the RCMP) to ensure all of the police sniper skills were correctly and completely addressed. Over the years, we have made modifications to the original series as the deployment of snipers has changed, but the core skills are still all there. We also offer custom sniper training, ideal for the agencies who want specialized or team-integrated training. Since the primary military arm is the C7 and since Keith had spent thousands of hours shooting, coaching and managing combat shooting teams, it was only a matter of time before we started teaching tactical rifle courses. It all started when Colt Canada (then Diemaco) asked us to develop and teach a marksmanship module to compliment their C8 operator/instructor course. From there, our police and security students helped us define and shape an advanced course and an instructor course. Many of our "have course will travel" and custom courses are designed around the tactical rifle. In the last few years, our police customers have started to take advantage of our pistol shooting skills. Although we had been teaching pistol marksmanship to military teams for years, we really got started when a security team asked us to train them for an international SWAT competition. Following that, a police agency asked for a custom pistol course for their instructors and then for their tactical team. This part of the business is growing and in 2011, we will be conducting several custom courses. Meanwhile, Keith has been a gunsmith (having graduated from the Colorado School of Trades in the 1970's) and has built rifles for competition and for operations. This skill and background provides a solid technical aspect to the MilCun business that helps us ensure all technical issues are solved before the training begins in earnest. With his background as a sniper and his skills as a gunsmith, it was only natural Keith would design and build our own MilCun-branded police sniper rifle. During field trials, the prototype was received with great enthusiasm and valuable input from active-duty snipers helped to tune the design. This rifle (complete or as an upgrade to an existing fleet) is now in use in dozens of Canadian agencies. In 2006, Keith and Linda started the Operational Shooting Association (a not-for-profit shooting club) which delivers training, matches and organized practice with an eye to developing operational marksmanship skills. In the same year their first book, The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters was published by Paladin Press. One of the interests Keith and Linda share is the mental aspects of shooting. They combined their thoughts to develop the Mental Marksmanship Seminar, which has been delivered to hundreds of police, security and military personnel. These seminars eventually grew into a body of work and stories which was published in 2010 as The Secrets of Mental Marksmanship. Keith and Linda also support the professional community by publishing the Tactical Info Net newsletter, by hosting/running police events, supporting agency shooting clubs, by speaking at seminars and by writing articles for professional magazines. |
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