The Cadre instructors silhouetted with rifles at last light
PRECISION RIFLE TRAINING EST. 2024 · WY · NC · AK · TX

THE CADRE PRECISION THROUGH CHAOS

Conditions change. Wind shifts. Plans fall apart. Come train to adjust under pressure and still deliver the shot.

Founded
2024
Instructors
9
Ranges
5
Class size
8 — 12
§ 01

A clear path.
More than one way to train.

Start with Foundation and progress into Advanced. Choose Performance when the work is competition-specific—or train with the Cadre through an Experience or focused 1:1 coaching.

§ 02

Train with us next.

Upcoming courses listed in chronological order. Round counts are guidelines — bring twenty percent extra, and a notebook.

Course LocationDatesDaysVenueTuitionAction
01
Tenacity Arms Precision Hunter Foundation
Cody, WYAug 25–262Cody Shooting Complex$1,200Details
02
Tenacity Arms Precision Hunter Advanced
Cody, WYAug 27–282Cody Shooting Complex$1,300Details
03
Foundation Precision
Beryl, UTAug 31 – Sep 12Brave Lizard Tactical$900Details
04
Advanced Precision
Beryl, UTSep 2–32Brave Lizard Tactical$1,000Details
05
Precision Hunter Prep
Beryl, UTSep 4–52Brave Lizard Tactical$900Details
06
Foundation Precision | Lipan, TX - Gravestone Precision
Lipan, TXNov 9–102Gravestone Precision Shooting$900Details
  • 01

    Tenacity Arms Precision Hunter Foundation

    $1,200
    Location
    Cody, WY
    Dates
    Aug 25–26 · 2 days
    Venue
    Cody Shooting Complex
    Details
  • 02

    Tenacity Arms Precision Hunter Advanced

    $1,300
    Location
    Cody, WY
    Dates
    Aug 27–28 · 2 days
    Venue
    Cody Shooting Complex
    Details
  • 03

    Foundation Precision

    $900
    Location
    Beryl, UT
    Dates
    Aug 31 – Sep 1 · 2 days
    Venue
    Brave Lizard Tactical
    Details
  • 04

    Advanced Precision

    $1,000
    Location
    Beryl, UT
    Dates
    Sep 2–3 · 2 days
    Venue
    Brave Lizard Tactical
    Details
  • 05

    Precision Hunter Prep

    $900
    Location
    Beryl, UT
    Dates
    Sep 4–5 · 2 days
    Venue
    Brave Lizard Tactical
    Details
  • 06

    Foundation Precision | Lipan, TX - Gravestone Precision

    $900
    Location
    Lipan, TX
    Dates
    Nov 9–10 · 2 days
    Venue
    Gravestone Precision Shooting
    Details
§ 03

The people behind the line.

Our cadre is small on purpose. Every name on the roster has stood on the line at matches and stood in front of a class to teach the next one. No filler.

Phillip Velayo
NO. 01

Phillip Velayo

CEO / Chief Executive Officer

15+ years

Co-founder of The Cadre and a Marine Corps Scout Sniper who taught roughly 350 snipers as a marksmanship instructor at 1st Marine Division Scout Sniper School. PRS Finale champion. Teaches the why behind every technique, not just the how.

Jon Bumpus
NO. 02

Jon Bumpus

CTO / Chief Training Officer

14+ years

Co-founder of The Cadre, still active duty. A Recon Marine turned Scout Sniper who runs our West Coast courses. Big on process over outcome: trust your fundamentals and the hits will come.

Matt Solowynsky
NO. 03

Matt Solowynsky

COO / Chief Operating Officer

12+ years

Co-founder of The Cadre and a former USMC urban sniper instructor. Matt runs operations and brings a planner's eye for detail to how every course is built and taught.

§ 04

Proven training.
Real results.

Four working principles, drawn from a decade of teaching shooters who came to get better. These do not change between classes, ranges, or seasons.

I

Process over outcome.

We don't train you to chase a hit. We build a repeatable shot process and drill it until it runs on its own. Trust the process and the hits follow — under pressure, that's the only thing that holds.

II

Understand the why.

Anyone can hand you a list of fundamentals to memorize. We teach the reasoning behind each one, so when conditions are not textbook you can diagnose yourself and adapt instead of guess.

III

Diagnose, don't react.

Every shot gets called and accounted for — where you held, what you saw, what the wind and the dirt told you. No excuses, no luck. You leave able to troubleshoot your own miss.

IV

Precision through chaos.

Field positions, real terrain, real wind, a clock running. Square ranges build false confidence. We put you in the uncomfortable spots on purpose so the shot still breaks clean when the plan falls apart.

Students trained
200+
Typical class
8 — 12
Partner ranges
5
Instructors
9
§ 05

I always tell my students to go train with other instructors. When they ask me who, I never had a good answer — until I saw what these guys are doing. Now I send them to The Cadre.

Travis Haley Haley Strategic Partners
§ 06

Before you sign up.

The four questions we get most often, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.

Foundation is the fundamentals lane. Advanced builds on those mechanics with positional, tripod, and field-style work. Performance is the competition lane, while Experience and one-on-one offerings are published or arranged separately. The individual class page is the source of truth for prerequisites; contact us if your experience does not fit neatly into one lane.

Still have questions? Write to info@thecadretraining.com.

Shooters and spotters working from tripods on a mountain range

Find a course. Bring a rifle.
Show up ready to learn.

— no shortcuts · no gimmicks —

Precision through chaos.