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It Starts in Class
You can't go to school without spending some time in the classroom. Peacemaker's owner, Cole McCulloch, personally oversaw the entirety of the Practical Hunting Rifleman School, and imparted his years of wisdom on students each morning in the classroom, before moving things to the range.

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Frontier Range
Peacemaker offers a variety of ranges, each suited to an individual course's needs. We spent our time on the Frontier Range, which offered no shortage of realistic shooting situations. Throughout the course of the weekend, students took shots from as close as 60 yards to as long as 1,100.

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Lessons on the Range
Cole McCulloch personally demonstrated each position and technique before putting students behind the gun.

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Real World Scenarios
The course is dedicated to "practical" riflecraft, and a big part of that was putting shooters in "real world" situations. It's not often that you'll have your bench with you during a hunt, and the shots we were asked to take reflected that. Here a student uses a fallen tree to help him steady his shot on the target, some 200 yards away.

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From the Trees
The heavily-wooded property of Peacemaker's Frontier Range offered students a chance to use nature as helping hand when establishing stability before a shot.

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From the Sticks
Shootings sticks made an appearance, too, presenting students with another opportunity to simulate "in the field" conditions.

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Like Father, Like Son
Students from across the United States traveled to West Virginia for course, each with varying degrees of experience in riflecraft. The father/son duo pictured here were experienced clay shooters, but had never so much as fired a rifle before in their career. That's not the case anymore.

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One-on-One Training
Peacemaker's staff oversaw every shot that students too, both to ensure safe rifle handling, and so that they could later provide firsthand analysis of the student's form. Here, owner Cole McCulloch oversees a student's offhand shot.

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On the Spot
The course didn't just cover shooting—it covered effective communication with your spotter, too. Classroom sessions covered proper terminology and proven techniques, and our Swarovski spotting scopes took care of the rest.

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Going Long
The final shot of the course finally allowed students the opportunity to take try to reach out and touch a steel target that sat more than 1,100 yards away. Here, the author lines up his shot from the bench.