ITS Tactical is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting Travis Haley and Haley Strategic Partners for Adaptive Handgun One and Adaptive Carbine One at The Best of the West Shooting Sports in Liberty Hill, TX.

The courses will run Tuesday, March 27, 2012 thru Thursday, March 29th for Handgun One and Friday, March 30th thru Sunday, April, 1st for Carbine One. Seats will be on a first come, first served basis and each class is capped at 24 students. You can register for one or both of the courses with the downloadable application below.

Courses will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day with an hour for lunch. Range fees include a catered box lunch, as food isn’t available within a short driving distance from the range. Below you’ll find registration, travel information and course details.

Adaptive Handgun One

Delivering mentally and physically challenging weapons manipulation courses for beginners to advanced shooters, the Adaptive Pistol program pushes students to find and overcome their individual failure points, building proficiency through the proper fundamentals and an understanding of the human body under stress.

Range and Class Work

• Safety and Warrior Mindset
• Gear Selection and Placement
• Handgun Fundamentals (Stance, Grip, Recoil Mechanics and Accuracy Drills)
• Weapons Manipulation (Speed, Efficiency, Loading and Malfunction Drills)
• Intro to Instinctive Shooting
• Intro to Movement
• Adaptive/Reactive Environment
• Mindset Shooting Drills
• Combat Effectiveness Test
• Intro to Physiological and Psychological Responses to Unavoidable Combat Stress

Adaptive Carbine One

From beginner to advanced shooter, the Adaptive Carbine program starts with a proper fundamentals package and escalates to high stress situations where speed, efficiency and accuracy mean shooter survival.

Range and Class Work

• Safety and Warrior Mindset
• Gear Selection and Placement
• Carbine Fundamentals (Stance, Grip, Recoil Mechanics and Accuracy Drills)
• Weapons Manipulation (Speed, Efficiency, Loading and Malfunction Drills)
• Intro to Instinctive Shooting
• Intro to Movement
• Adaptive/Reactive Environment
• Mindset Shooting Drills
• Combat Effectiveness Test
• Intro to Physiological and Psychological Responses to Unavoidable Combat Stress

Course Details

Cost for Handgun One is $840, which includes tuition of $750, $60 for three days of range fees and $30 for three days of catered boxed lunches. Carbine One is also $840 and includes tuition of $750, $60 for three days of range fees and $30 for three days of catered boxed lunches. Taking both classes will run $1680 total.

All participants must be a US citizen and provide at least one of the following: local law enforcement background check, Letter of good standing from local law enforcement, or a copy of a valid concealed carry license.

Round Count for Handgun One is 600 rounds of 9mm – 45ACP and Carbine One is also 600 rounds of 5.56 x 45, 5.45 x 39 or 7.62 x 39mm.

To sign up you must complete this application and mail in your personal check, bank money order or cashier’s check to hold your spot. Please note that personal checks will have to clear our bank before enrollment is confirmed and your spot is held. Applications and payment must be received no later than March 23, 2012.

Travel Information

Travel and accommodations are not included in the course fees and the following details will give you the closest hotels, airport information and the contact information for the range where the course will take place each day.

Range

The Best of the West Range
19500 W. SH 29
Liberty Hill, TX 78642
(512) 355-3486

Airport

If you’re planning on flying in, the closest airport is Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS).

Hotels

We’ve arranged a limited number of group rate rooms at the Holiday Inn located in Cedar Park, TX, which is about 20 minutes south of the range. Our pricing is $89 per night for Monday night thru Wednesday night and $115 per night for Thursday night thru Saturday night. Use code “ITS TACTICAL” when booking. The cutoff to book with Holiday Inn for the group rate is March 5th.

Holiday Inn Express
1605 E. Whitestone Blvd.
Cedar Park, TX 78613
(512) 259-8200

Two other options for Hotels are below:

Best Western Cedar Inn
425 East Whitestone Boulevard
Cedar Park, TX 78613-9014
(512) 259-7300

Course Registration

To sign up you must complete this application and mail in your personal check, bank money order or cashier’s check to hold your spot. Please note that personal checks will have to clear our bank before enrollment is confirmed and your spot is held. Applications and payment must be received no later than March 23, 2012.

Please leave any questions you have in regards to the course in the comments below. To keep things better organized, we’ll be using this post to provide feedback and answer questions that come up. Again please direct all questions to the comments here, we look forward to seeing everyone there!

We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our newest sponsor, Lock-n-Load Java, a veteran owned and operated coffee company that we know you’re going to like as much as we do.

ITS Tactical HQ has been fueled by Lock-n-Load Java for some time now and it’s some of the best coffee we’ve ever had. After trying our first bag of “Charlie Don’t Surf,” we were hooked and the Starbucks went into the circular file. Honestly, how can you not love a coffee company that not only donates $1 to military charities for every order shipped, but named their roasts with titles like “Double Barrel Black,” “Double Tap,” and “Smooth Operator?”

Lock-n-Load buys only the best beans from reputable coffee farmers, on sustainable small farms with a track record of growing consistently high grade coffee with unparalleled taste. By buying only the best, perfectly ripened coffee beans from farmers they know and trust, they pay a premium – but the results speak for themselves.

You can also purchase coffee directly for the troops in discounted packages and Lock-n-Load will cover the shipping. This can be for a particular unit of your choice, or leaving it up to Lock-n-Load to decide. Make sure to check out their Hot Cocoa while you’re there too!

Check out Lock-n-Load Java today and tell them ITS Tactical sent you! Don’t forget to check out the ITS Vendor Discount Codes if you’re a member too, there’s a nice discount available with your first purchase and some freebies as well!

We’ve got big plans starting this Monday the 16th when Las Vegas SHOT Show 2012 kicks off with Media Day at the Range. This article will to tell you all about what we have going on during the week and why you’ll want to track us down.

Primarily we’ll be there reporting live from the show floor on all the latest and greatest in the industry each day, so keep your eye on our homepage for the live feed. We’ll also be updating on our Facebook page and Twitter with everything we’re seeing too. The SHOT Show runs each day Tuesday the 17th thru Friday the 20th from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Monday being Media Day at the Range. We’ll definitely be covering Media Day at the Range as well.

As you might have seen on our Facebook page, our SHOT Show Poker Chips are back with a new design for 2012. In addition to handing you one for free when you find us at the show, any order placed in the ITS Store during the week of SHOT Show (January 16th – 20th) will receive a free poker chip as well! (while supplies last).

Limited Edition SHOT Show 2012 Poker Chip

Tweet and Meet

How do you find us? Easy! Follow us on Twitter throughout the day and we’ll be tweeting our location as we cover the show. If for some reason you can’t track us down during the day, we’ve got a Tweet and Meet each night after the show. We’ll be tweeting out the location each night of where we’ll be at having drinks and everyone is invited out to have a drink on us! You’ll just have to watch Twitter carefully to see where we’re at each night.

Free FR T-Shirt from Tactical Distributors, DRIFIRE and ITS Tactical

We’ve partnered up with our friends at Tactical Distributors and DRIFIRE to offer give a free tee to the first 100 people that head over to the Tactical Distributors Booth and give the correct passphrase! So what’s the password to get your free SHOT Show 2012 DRIFIRE Ultra-Lightweight Short Sleeve Tee?

Simply head over to TD’s booth at #26307 and say “The Indians are on the Warpath!” Without the password they’ll probably tell you they don’t know what free tee you’re talking about! You may remember the odor resistance of these shirts from our review here on ITS Tactical, these are great shirts and inherently fire resistant as well.

Discount Code

Yet another reason to find us at the SHOT Show is that we’ll be handing out a card with a discount code for the ITS Store that will be good for the week of SHOT only (Jan. 16th – 20th.)

We’ll be working hard for you all week by bringing you live coverage straight from the floor of SHOT Show, check back with us often throughout each day next week as our information will continually update on our Website, Twitter and Facebook!

Thanks for all your support this past year, we’ve had huge growth and owe it all to each one of you! We’re both humbled and extremely proud to have such awesome friends to surround ourselves with here in our community on ITS Tactical!

Check out last year’s coverage of SHOT Show 2011 linked below, but be warned, it’s going to be a huge upgrade to last year! 

We’re thrilled to announce our newest ITS Tactical event. The Muster will be a skill-set development event held outdoors that integrates the most common skill-sets we advocate here on ITS Tactical.

You’ll be sleeping under the stars after days packed full of information on Lock Picking, Knot Tying, Rappelling, Fire & Shelter Building, Camp Gadgets & Stoves, Medical and Land Navigation.

Rather than simply try to convey all these skills from a computer, we wanted to bring our community together to get hands-on and learn together.

While all the details are still being finalized, we hope to have the registration information and cost for you soon. We’re shooting for mid-October right now in Central Texas, but wanted to put out plenty of notice to everyone so you can clear your calendar.

The Muster will be limited to 50 people and you’ll have to be a Life Member, Plank Owner or Crew Leader to attend. You’re going to get dirty, you’re going to be tired, but you’ll leave with more knowledge than you came with, great memories and friendships forged.

We’ve also launched a Facebook Event for the Muster, so those of you that plan to attend can keep in touch with each other.

Keeping up with a new tradition here on ITS, Matt put together an awesome infographic recapping everything by the numbers in 2011. It’s been a fantastic year and we owe it all to each and every one of you!

Hopefully everyone had a safe and happy New Year’s Eve and is as excited as we are about what 2012 holds. We’ve got big plans this year and we can’t wait to start sharing them with you!

A huge thank you to all our Life Members, Plank Owners, Crew Leaders, Crew Members, sponsors, contributors and readers! We wouldn’t be here today without all your support!

As this year draws to a close we’d like to take a moment to recognize each and every one of our readers, members and sponsors for all that we’ve been able to accomplish on ITS Tactical.

We wouldn’t be here without your support, friendship and encouragement; so we humbly say thank you.

I’d like to present a video that Rob’s been putting together with some pretty good outtakes from all our videos this year. Just goes to show that I hardly ever get it right on the first take and still swear like a sailor!

There’s definitely bad words in this, unlike all our edited videos, so this is not safe for work. It’s just a little something to give you some laughs at my expense.

Again, thank you for all that you do for ITS Tactical and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

ITS Tactical will be on a Holiday Stand Down from December 26th to January 2nd. The store will remain open during that time and orders will ship each day with the exception of December 23rd thru December 26th and December 31st thru January 2nd.

We’ve got a few things planned during the stand down, but we’ll be back full force come the 2nd with some awesome announcements!

Hopefully you’re familiar with the internet phenomenon that is the Honey Badger and why we’d choose to commemorate its awesomeness with a new morale patch.

Not only has the video below garnered millions of YouTube views and laughs, but has also highlighted one of the toughest animals on the planet!

These new 100% embroidered patches measure roughly 3″ wide x 4″ tall and feature a velcro backing to stick them wherever you’d like! The velcro can also be removed with a seam ripper if you’d like to sew them on. Get yours here!

Warning: The following video is not safe for work and has some language you wouldn’t want your kids to hear either…

Our good friends at Magnum are running giveaways on their Facebook page for each day leading up to Christmas. On the third day of Christmas (today) they’re giving away three ITS Holiday Patch Collections, three ITS Sticker Packs and three $25 ITS Store Gift Certificates!

Head on over and get your entry in to win! A big thanks to Magnum for including us in their 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways!

Until 11:59 p.m. (Central Time) you can save 15% on all in-stock items in the ITS Tactical Store. Additionally, we’ve got some awesome savings on these select items!

• 15% Off Discount Code: “WALKTHEPLANK” (Friday – Monday)
• Cyber Monday Blow Out! (available Monday ONLY!)
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (Basic) – $149.99 $117.99
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (Standard) – $159.99 $127.99
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (MIL/LE) – $169.99 $137.99
• Liberty Bottles – $19.99 $14.99
• ITS Koozies – $4.99 $1.99
• ITS Logo Patches - $5.99 $2.99
• 9/11 Prevail T-Shirts – $21.99 $12.99
• Infidel T-Shirts (all colors) – $21.99 $12.99
• 2nd Annual Hog Hunt T-Shirts – $19.99 12.99
• Don’t forget about our newly launched Gift Certificates available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations!

Click here to view our Black Friday / Cyber Monday Flyer!

While Plank Owners and Crew Leaders get 15% off all orders, all the time this discount code cannot be combined. Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale prices are while supplies last, sorry no rainchecks!

We’d like to first start off by wishing every one of our readers a Happy Thanksgiving from ITS Tactical. There’s a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and primarily we want to recognize our Military, Law Enforcement and First Responders that put their lives on the line each and every day for all of us!

Here on ITS we’re also thankful for the fanatical support you guys have shown us this past year and the growth we’ve been able to achieve! Our membership has doubled since last year and we thank everyone for their help in getting the word out about ITS Tactical! We wouldn’t be here without each and every one of you or be able to continue to bring you the definitive online resource for gear reviews, skill-set information and DIY projects!

This holiday season, we’d like to make a shameless plug for our Amazon Affiliate account. As you might already know, we get a small percentage of sales that come in when you click our affiliate link here. So if you’re doing any holiday shopping on Amazon and click our link before you do, you’d be helping to support ITS. It doesn’t cost you anything at all and helps us to keep bringing you the awesomeness!

Ok, let’s get to the deals! There are a ton of great deals out there this holiday season for all you tactical turkeys out there. While we’ve rounded up quite a few of them, I’m sure there are plenty more we haven’t mentioned. If you know of any that we’re forgetting, post them in the comments so we can all check them out!

Tactical Turkey Deals

Here’s our comprehensive list of deals we could find for you out on the internets to save you some money this holiday season!

ITS Tactical 15% off store-wide with additional Cyber Monday Savings!

First thing on Black Friday (12 a.m.) you’ll be able to get everything in the ITS Tactical Store for 15% off thru Cyber Monday. On Cyber Monday we’ve got some awesome additional savings on select items!

Click here to view our Black Friday / Cyber Monday Flyer!

• 15% Off Discount Code: “WALKTHEPLANK” (Friday – Monday)
• Cyber Monday Blow Out! (available Monday ONLY!)
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (Basic) – $149.99 $117.99
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (Standard) – $159.99 $127.99
• ETA Trauma Kit Pouch w/ ETA Trauma Kit (MIL/LE) – $169.99 $137.99
• Liberty Bottles – $19.99 $14.99
• ITS Koozies – $4.99 $1.99
• ITS Logo Patches - $5.99 $2.99
• 9/11 Prevail T-Shirts – $21.99 $12.99
• Infidel T-Shirts (all colors) – $21.99 $12.99
• 2nd Annual Hog Hunt T-Shirts – $19.99 12.99
• Don’t forget about our newly launched Gift Certificates available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations!

While Plank Owners and Crew Leaders get 15% off all orders, all the time this discount code cannot be combined. Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale prices are while supplies last, sorry no rainchecks!

Tactical Distributors

Tactical Distributors is rolling out its biggest sale ever! 25% off the Entire Site and Free Shipping on top of that! Use promo code “THANKS” for the Sale running November 24th thru November 28th!

Magnum USA

Magnum USA is putting the black in Black Friday this year. This weekend only, Magnum customers can take advantage of some killer savings on their top products. Starting Friday, Nov. 25 at Midnight and running through Monday, Nov. 28, you’ll receive 20% off selected styles of footwear, apparel and outerwear ordered through their online store.

In addition, those who spend $50 or more will receive a free ion-mask black tactical hat, as well as free shipping. Shoppers just need to enter the code “HATSHIP50” during checkout to receive free shipping and their gift.

SKD Tactical

SKD Tactical rolls out their Black Rifle Friday sale starting Friday at 12:01AM CST thru Sunday night 11:59PM CST! Save 10% off everything by using Promo Code “blackfriday2011”

ReactGear

ReactGear has something special lined up this year, but you should be registered for their email list so you’ll get the blast on their deals this weekend!

Brownells

There’s a Black Rifle Friday Event going on at Brownells that you’ll definitely want to check out!

GORUCK

GORUCK is offering a Free GR TAC Hat with the first 20 Gift Cards purchased over $100 at GORUCK

Shellback Tactical

Shellback Tactical is having a Monster Black Friday 7-Day Sale starting Thanksgiving Day at 12:01 thru Wednesday the 30th. All In Stock TAG and Shellback Gear will be 35%-50% off during the Sale and – 20% off all other brands such as (TRU-Spec), Surefire, Streamlight, XGO, Leatherman and 20% off all Soft Armor!

Original SOE

From now till midnight on Sunday Special Operations Equipment is offering 15% off any order and $5 Shipping (in the US) (APO Orders will receive free shipping). You must be a fan of the SOE Facebook Page (they will check) you also have to go onto Facebook and re-post their sale photo and tell your friends about the sale. In your order notes you must also put “15% Thanksgiving Sale.”

Eastern Mountain Sports

Up to 50% select items! More information here

U.S. Cavalry

Use code PN10J152 at U.S. Cavalry for 15% off, excluding 5.11.

Silencerco

Silencerco is hooking you up with 25% off their entire webstore on Friday, November 25th only! To take advantage of the Black Friday goodness, simply enter “BLACKFRIDAY” on checkout!

High Speed Gear (HSGI)

HSGI is taking 10% off any item not already on sale by entering coupon code “GOBBLE-GOBBLE” Sale starts Thanksgiving Day thru Midnight Sunday the 27th.

Bravo Company USA

This Friday and Saturday, November 25 and 26, all orders placed on BravoCompanyUSA.com will be discounted 10%! No code needed.

ReactGear

Through the entire month of November ReactGear is running a discount for $5 off your purchase of $50 or more, $15 off your purchase of $100 or more and $25 off your purchase of $150 or more

To receive the discount on your qualifying online order, enter 5off or 15off or 25off in the Coupon Code field on the “Shopping Cart” page and click apply. *Cannot be combined with any other discounts or coupons but valid on sale items. Discount excludes shipping charges. Offer not good on previous orders.*

ITS Membership Discounts

Don’t forget about our anytime discounts for our Plank Owners and Crew Leaders! For more information on how you can join our membership for less than 14¢ a day and take advantage of these discounts, click here!

• React Gear – 10% off entire order
• Spy-Coins – 25% off entire order
• Zulu Nylon Gear – $5 off entire order
• SerePick – $5 off entire order
• Mil-Spec Monkey – 15% off entire order
• RSKTKR – 20% off any class
• Shellback Tactical – 10% off entire order
• Sheepdogs, Inc. – 20% off entire order
• Jones Tactical – 10% off entire order
• Modern Combative Systems – 10% off entire order
• Revision Eyewear – 30% off up to 5 items
• Door Devil – 20% off entire order
• Lucky Gunner Ammo – $15 off of any purchase of $200 or more
• Going Loud Tactical Outfitters – 10% off entire order
• Tactical Distributors – 10% off entire order
• OSOE (Original Special Operations Equipment) – 10% off entire order
• JMC Custom Holsters – 15% off entire order
• Magnum USA – 10% off $50 or more
• K9One.com – $500 off Training or K-9 Purchase
• Chosen Tactical – 5% off any item
• Mayflower Research & Consulting – 15% off entire order

Have an awesome and safe Thanksgiving holiday from all of us here at ITS Tactical! Please remember our soldiers and those who can’t be with us this holiday season. Don’t forget to post up any deals we may have missed!