Massad Ayoob Group MAG 20 Range - Live Fire

MAG 20 Range/Live Fire
10-11 November 2025
Instructor: Eric Lamberson
For more information or to sign up go here: Sensible Self Defense

https://sensibleselfdefense.com/mag-classes

Cost: $550.00 (includes range fee)

Time: 0900-1700 (9 A.M - 5 P.M.)

Location: Cedar Ridge Range, 7110 Farm to Market 1863, Bulverde, ‎TX
Duration: 2-Days

Prerequisites: Solid grounding in safe pistol operation, drawing from the holster, muzzle awareness, and trigger finger discipline.

A two day, 20 hour immersion course in the use of the defensive handgun under extreme stress. Draw from concealment, two-handed stances, shooting from cover, one-handed stances with either hand, speed reloading, and more are taught with an overall emphasis on fast, accurate shot placement. The course will culminate with a police-style qualification course. Estimated ammo count: 500 rounds. Prerequisite: basic understanding of firearms safety and proof of a clean criminal record.

The MAG-20 Live Fire incorporates martial arts principles into the art of pistol marksmanship and reflects Massad Ayoob’s 35+ years of training law enforcement officers and legally-armed private citizens. It employs the concepts of the fighting stance, applying force, and seeking balance and departs greatly from target shooting principles in gripping the pistol, body position, and head position. Using these concepts you will find recoil recovery improved with the pistol snapping back to sights on target with every shot. MAG-20 teaches the student to position their body in a manner that mimics the human body's reflexive crouch. So rather than fighting the body’s protective instincts the shooter works with them.

In MAG-20 Live Fire students learn the classic Weaver, Chapman's modified Weaver, and a modified Isosceles. Students are often very skeptical of the modified Isosceles only to discover their target telling them that it is working. Students learn one-handed shooting, both strong side and weak side. Massad’s approach uses the principal of the body’s sympathetic muscle movement to obtain the maximum grip from the shooting hand. Students also learn shooting from low cover positions including the cover crouch, the high kneeling and the low kneeling.

We finish the MAG-20 Live Fire with a police-style qualification that incorporates all of the techniques we learn throughout the course.

The MAG 20 Live Fire and the MAG 20 Armed Citizen are the two component sub courses of MAG 40—each covering ½ of the MAG 40 course material.

If you have taken a MAG 20 Classroom, completing this course will qualify you to receive credit for and a certificate for MAG 40. If you have not taken the classroom instruction, we will have one in April of 2020. You can take the range portion now and the classroom portion in April 2020 and receive credit for the MAG 40.

Hope to see you there!
Regards, Eric
ericlamberson@sensibleselfdefense.com
210-667-8594