Signature Courses

The courses on this page were hand-crafted by Robb based on twenty years in Special Operations (including multiple combat tours).

These courses are taught using Special Forces training and techniques.

They are not NRA approved courses. For our NRA course offerings, please click here.

Robb Milheim, creator and lead instructor of SFPT's Signature Courses

Meet your instructor: Robb Milheim, Retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret)

A shooter practicing pistol fundamentals at an outdoor range, brass ejecting mid-shot

Introduction to Pistol

Never held a pistol before? Good — you have no bad habits to fix. This class builds your foundation from zero: safety, handling, grip, stance, and how to actually hit what you're aiming at. Small class, calm instruction, zero intimidation. You'll leave confident with your pistol instead of cautious around it.

A shooter running pistol drills at an outdoor range

Advanced Pistol

This class picks up where the fundamentals leave off: drawing from the holster, shooting under time pressure, movement, reloads, malfunction clearance. Real skills, taught the way Robb teaches everything — calmly, step by step, until you've got it. Every rep is deliberate. Every drill has a purpose. You'll leave with skills you can keep sharpening on your own — and a clear standard to measure yourself against.

Robb Milheim coaching shooters through prone carbine drills — the instruction style behind SFPT's Intro to Carbine course

Robb training allied & indigenous forces on Special Forces deployment in Africa.

Intro to Carbine

New to the carbine? This class starts where it should. Robb will teach you safety first, then how your rifle actually works — the mechanics of the gun itself — and then how to run it: stance, grip, sight picture, loading, unloading, and putting rounds exactly where you want them. Taught calmly, step by step, with no assumptions about what you already know. You'll leave understanding your carbine instead of just owning it.

Robb Milheim, SFPT's Advanced Carbine instructor, running rifle drills on a desert range

Robb cross training on foreign weapons during Special Forces deployment in Africa.

Advanced Carbine

This class builds on the fundamentals you’ve already learned. Here we will cover: shooting positions, reloads, malfunction clearance, transitions, and making hits under time pressure. Real skills, taught the way Robb teaches everything — calmly, step by step, until you've got it. Every drill has a purpose. Every shot is deliberate. You'll leave with skills you can keep sharpening on your own — and a clear standard to measure yourself against.

Robb Milheim, front right, stepping off on a dismounted patrol in Afghanistan — the environment where tactical shooting skills are what keeps you alive

Robb (front right) preparing for dismounted patrol on Special Forces combat tour in Afghanistan.

Tactical Shooting

This is where shooting meets thinking. You'll shoot while moving and work target identification and discrimination — what to shoot, what to hold fire on, and making that call fast. The pressure is real, but it doesn't come from an instructor in your face. It comes from the clock, and from yourself. That's the pressure that actually makes you better. You'll leave a smarter shooter, not just a better one.

Robb Milheim beside the vehicles and positions his team shot from and took cover behind during daily firefights in Afghanistan

Robb prepping truck load out on Special Forces combat deployment in Afghanistan.

Shooting from Barriers & Cover

This class teaches you to work with what's around you: shooting from behind barriers, around them, over them, and under them — while understanding the difference between cover and concealment, and why that difference matters. You'll learn to use your environment instead of ignoring it. Because the shooting is only half the skill. Positioning is the rest.

person gripping pistol with non-dominant hand

Off-Hand Shooting

What happens if your strong hand is injured or occupied? This class answers that: running your pistol completely with your non-dominant hand — shooting, reloading, clearing malfunctions, all of it. You'll start over as a beginner for one day, and leave with a capability that makes you a more complete shooter than most people on any range.