On July 18, 2026 Doug Greig taught a session of his “Gunfighting in Crowds” class at KR Training’s A Zone Range.
This 1/2 day course is intended for students with prior experience/training drawing from concealment, capable of hitting a 6″ or smaller target at 10 yards. The course goal was to improve each student’s ability to make shoot/no-shoot decisions and avoid muzzling bystanders in a shooting situation crowded with non threats. Doug used a variety of photo and clothed targets, 3D targets and moving targets in the live fire drills.
Many drills started with a position Doug called “covered ready”, which involved clearing the concealment garment and gripping the pistol in the holster, usually while giving verbal commands prior to drawing and engaging a threat.
The first set of live fire drills started from “covered ready”, drawing and engaging targets at distances from 3-10 yards, mainly to verify that students were capable of meeting the class accuracy standard.
Doug made a “back of cell phone” overlay to add to some non-threats.
The short 3D target was intended to simulate a child.
Some drills required you stand 1 yard from the non-threat, which was blocking your line of fire to the threat, and move around the obstacle before engaging. More and more obstacles were added to the drills as class progressed.
This setup had 4 non-threats blocking the shoot target.
One of the final drills in the course used the motorized 3D target moving around a crowded field of bystanders. Doug had marked one side of the moving target’s T-shirt to show a gun in the waistband, and when the target turned, it showed that the gun had been drawn, as the signal to engage. This required the target to initially appear to be backing up toward the student, but it was intended to simulate someone moving forward with a gun visible in the waistband.
In the video I move to the blue barrel (“cover”) while going to Doug’s “covered ready” position, and then drawing and moving to a position where I had a clear shot on the target as it simulated drawing and retreated as I engaged.
As an indoor=in-the-AC afternoon addon, Doug taught a CPR/AED/Stop the Bleed course. I have an AED at the A-Zone, so having more students and instructors trained in its use is beneficial. In this pic several students perform CPR and use the AED on one of Doug’s mannikins, while range dog Scudder Underfoot supervises.
Doug’s Gunfighting in Crowds course will be in our regular rotation of class offerings each year. It offers use of innovative props, 3D targets, target movement and other features unavailable at indoor range courses, stand-and-shoot square range classes, or most dryfire simulators.