This is not a generic hunting clinic. This is four full days of living, eating, and breathing Western big-game riflecraft on 2,000 acres of private high-desert and mountain terrain that looks like the places you actually hunt.

We take the proven Long Range Skills Progression curriculum and turn the entire lens toward one goal: making you lethally effective on game with responsible shots, every time you decide to press the trigger.

Everything is built around real hunting problems, solved with real hunting gear, on real hunting terrain, in real conditions.

What Makes This One Different:

• Terminal ballistics taught the way it should be: live-fire into ballistic gel with hunting bullets so you actually see expansion, penetration, and wound channels 
• Shot-placement classes.
• Rifle setup for three distinct Western roles: The Brush Rifle, The Ranch/Rig Rifle, and The Lightweight Mountain Rifle; what works, what’s hype, and how to make each one disappear on your back until it’s needed
• Complete equipment carry systems: packs, slings, bipods, tripods, shooting sticks, LRF integration; and how to make it all work fast when your heart rate is jacked and your target isn't giving you much time.
• Heavy emphasis on tripod shooting-stick skills (the modern hunter’s primal skill)
• Laser rangefinder truth: where’s your laser at, and how do we figure that out?
• External ballistics stripped of theory: we’ll show you exactly which atmospheric variables actually move your bullet at the ranges you’ll most likely be shooting animals at.
• Training philosophy: flirt with your absolute limits on the range so you stay locked inside your real capabilities when an animal is in front of you

This is the Nail Spring Ranch Hunter Experience

The ranch is built for exactly this. Brand-new 4-star guest lodge, home-cooked whole-food meals (breakfast and dinner), ridiculous brown-bag lunches you’ll actually look forward to, open bar in the evenings, full gym, classroom with AV, secure armory, and 2,200 ft of grass runway if you’re the type who flies yourself to sniper school.

The ranch is on another level:

• Known-distance bays out to 800 yd and unknown-distance ranges to 1,600 yd from two-story shooting houses with power and AV
• Multiple PRS-style prop stages loaded with creative, evil but fair, barricades
• Hike-and-shoot field courses that feel like high-country elk hunts
• Angle fire and cross-canyon shots from 300 yds out to a mile.
• Wind? It’s always there, and it lies.

Every hit you make at Nail Spring is a hit you earned.

What’s Covered

• Hunting-specific rifle/setup optimization (weight, balance, caliber realities)
• Terminal performance of modern hunting bullets (gel, photos, etc)
• Shot placement on big game vitals under field conditions
• Tripod and shooting-stick mastery from multiple positions
• Rapid, stable field positions on steep and uneven ground
• Mountain wind reading in broken terrain
• Gear organization that works when glassing turns into shooting -  8 seconds ago.

• Know exactly where your bullet will be at the range you need it to be.
• Build positions and shoot confidently from tripod, sticks, or natural terrain
• Range and engage unknown-distance animals with first-round hits in mountain wind
• Walk off the mountain knowing exactly where your true limits are

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Who's This For?

Any rifle hunter who is tired of hoping and wants to know. 

Whether you’re moving from a .30-06 and iron sights to a lightweight 7mm PRC, or you’re already running carbon everything and want to shave the last bit of uncertainty from your system, this experience is built for you.

Are you an NRL Hunter competitor looking for the next edge? This is it. 

The bottom line? If you can zero your rifle on your own, get your data dialed at distance on your own, and move yourself and your shooting equipment about the range, you should come!

Nail Spring Ranch is the best hunting-rifle playground on earth.

Come turn your rifle into a tool that ends hunts cleanly, every time.

Spots are extremely limited. This one will sell out.

If you’re ready to become the hunter you’ve always wanted to be, this is it.

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