EAST Group

Carbine II from EAST Group and Buckeye Fi****ms Association on July 19th from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

⚠️If you've already signed up for Carbine I...you need to take this.
⚠️If you already have some knowledge with the AR, you need to take this class.
⚠️If you want to improve your skills, you need to take this.
⚠️If you're tired of the indoor range and want to let that AR see something more, you need to take this class!

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Carbine II picks right up where the day before leaves off. We add more movement, more reps, more rounds, more reloads, cover, and work on bringing you to a higher level of proficiency with your AR. Click on the link for more information and to get signed up.

This is a platform that is built for so much more than you can run it in the little 3x3 cubicle at the indoor range. Let us take you into the 360-degree world and take your skills to the next level.

2026 Tactical Carbine Phase 2 - July 19 This course is structured for those with a good working knowledge of the AR/M4 platform. Successful completion of Tactical Carbine Phase 1 is STRONGLY recommended.

Timers exist only in training…

Yeah that’s going to p**s a few people off unless you understand more of how the brain and our body functions. Let’s start this post off first by saying no we aren’t attacking the use of timers and that they have no place, but rather providing some food for thought. Truth be told, we love competition and find it enjoyable. If you’ve been to any of our events that we have hosted for the ladies of Armed Women of America and A Girl & A Gun you know how much we put into it!

Timers do measure speed and provide a consistent sound, tone, and signal that means react. There is a basis for determining improvement of a shooter and have data to measure hit factor and scoring. Timers and repetitions in practice improve raw times when utilized correctly to not engrain bad habits and poor muscle memory.

Auditory acuity is far faster of a reaction time. We’re talking microseconds when we discuss just how fast that your brain can process that beep. There is very little that it must understand.
So, what’s the problem outside of the range and why are we cautioning to not skew your speed with these numbers?

The problem is that when we are outside of the range, there is no beep, there may not be gunshots or screams first. We are relying on visual acuity and how long it takes the brain to recognize and evaluate what we are seeing to determine the course of action. Scanning, and not that BS range head whip-whip, but actual scanning, assessing what you see, and being aware is crucial. Even more, unlike on the competition grounds you can’t just immediately draw your firearm.

Visual acuity is slower. It takes longer for information to travel to the visual cortex. Slower detection times AND reaction times to inhibit the decision on what you need to do. You’re looking, scanning, and analyzing constantly, but unlike the range and competition by nature you are distracted. Kids, spouse, groceries, music in the car, smartphone, normal everyday sounds, everyday life happening all around you are all taking parts of your attention.

To complicate matters even more, on the competition field you have walked the course of fire and been briefed on the stage. You know the number of targets, number of rounds required, planned your reloads, know which way you are going, know the fault lines, your gear is 100% perfectly prepped, and nothing on that stage moves.

While the timer is great, out in the real world what happens won’t be indicated by a beep. Do what you can improve your situational awareness.. Make sure that you are spending time in training that challenges you and pushes you beyond the audio signal and engages even more of your brain.

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Are you a member of church safety/security? You need to be here on July 11th - Intro to Structures
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Being a member of an armed church safety team is more than just carrying a firearm on your church property. It’s more than just showing that you can stand and qualifying with a paper target. If you aren’t familiar with working in structures and going outside the normal setup where a target is “down range” then you are not prepared.

On July 11 from 9:00am to 5:00pm, E.A.S.T. Group will be instructing our Intro to Structures class at our training facility. This full-day class will be focused on moving students from their normal “range environment” to learning to move with that firearm. How to navigate doorways, hallways, rooms, and getting a better understanding of how to move in and around structures. We are going to take you from flat range to where you will be moving in the 360-degree real world and begin building solid fundamentals.

❓❓Questions we get about this class?❓❓

✅ Should I take this class if I am a new shooter? That’s a great question and to answer you need to define, “new”. We feel that this class is geared towards students that have good marksmanship, can safely operate their firearm, and are confident in their firearm handling. We will tell you what most others won’t which is if you don’t have solid firearm fundamentals, you are a liability rather than an asset.

✅ Can you instruct this at our church? For obvious reasons the live fire portion of this class is conducted at our training house and facility. It is of significant benefit that your safety team be training together not only in live fire here, but also dry fire, movement, teamwork, and planning at your own church which we can design and conduct for you.

✅ I enjoyed this class, is there more? Yes, we have other options that add more complexity, partner work, teamwork, and can facilitate what you are looking for.

✅ Do you have a “shoot house”? While some would consider it as such, we prefer it as a training house. You should already know how to “shoot” and do so with confidence in your abilities. Our 30’x56’ house and the accompanying outside areas offer 360-degree live fire and are able to be reconfigured relatively easy to fit the needs of each class we host.

✅ I see other structures classes firing 500+ rounds in a day, how does this compare? The truth is that you should already know how to shoot and have solid marksmanship prior to taking this class. We will do more with less rounds and run far more reps with this class so when you do go live your rounds will only be where intended.

If you have questions, reach out, we are more than happy to answer them! Training is a journey, come check us out.

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Headed out for training here at E.A.S.T. Group or elsewhere in Ohio this week? Gonna be a hot one, plan and pack accordingly. Our training facility is situated between two districts and prefer to operate safely and not require their services.

If you are traveling in to visit for training, make sure to monitor weather forecasts for the 43019 zip code.

Have that newer shooter in the family thats looking to get proficient and learn with their AR-15? Bought one and never took any structured training with it before? Is your only experience at the indoor range that limits you and what the capabilities of the platform are?

GET SIGNED UP FOR CARBINE 1 to join EAST Group and Buckeye Fi****ms Association coming up on July 18 at the premier training facility in Central Ohio!

⚠️ JULY 18
⚠️ 9:00am - 5:00pm
⚠️ E.A.S.T. Group Training
⚠️ 2535 Township Road 192, Fredericktown, Ohio 43019

YES, for those asking, this class can be taken as young as 14 with a parent that IS PRESENT with them on the firing line. This is a solid structured class that provides the fundamentals of this platform and gives students a great base to grow into other training courses!

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2026 Tactical Carbine Phase 1 - July 18 This is an introductory class for those who have purchased an AR or AK platform but have no official hands-on training with this firearm.

“Oh, it’s a low round count class, eh I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.” We’ve seen that, heard that, we know the stigma out there that you must take a class that fires a minimum of over 500-rounds a day.

What if we told you that its incorrect and someone planted this in your mind? More rounds must be better! Sure, there are some classes where this may be true, but what we have found time and time again from not only our style of instructional curriculum and student feedback that low round counts can actually provide MORE! Student reviews time and time again we hear, “I was just at a class that shot 500-1000 rounds elsewhere and I LEARNED MORE TODAY WITH 300 in a day.”

Outside of basic marksmanship on a specific platform or running classes on competition stages, most of our other classes are a much lower round count. If you’re taking vehicles, structures, night/low-light, or a variety of higher speed and no mistake classes you better already be dialed in on your shooting. These classes are about putting everything else together, the shots in the course of fire are just confirming everything else was done correctly.

Don’t get sucked into the more is better. Seek training where round is purposeful, intentional, and fundamentally sound.

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