Three hours at Bisley learning to stop serious bleeding: recognising it, applying a tourniquet properly, packing a wound, and keeping someone alive until help arrives. From £85.
UK shooting has one of the strongest safety records of any outdoor sport. Range procedures, experienced instructors and a culture of taking responsibility seriously mean serious incidents are genuinely rare.
This course builds on that rather than arguing with it. Catastrophic bleeding is one of the few emergencies where what happens in the first few minutes decides the outcome, and where an ambulance is often not close enough to be those first few minutes. Shooting grounds, stalking ground and most of the places field sports happen are, by their nature, a long way from a hospital.
It is a small amount of training you will probably never need, and would be very glad to have.
Three hours, practical and hands on throughout.
You practise each skill rather than watch it demonstrated. That is the point: under stress people do what they have physically rehearsed, not what they have read.
No medical background is needed and none is assumed. The course suits club members and range officers, stalkers and keepers, instructors and shoot organisers, and anyone who works somewhere an ambulance would take a while to reach.
It is just as useful away from shooting. The skills are the same whether the injury happens on a range, in a workshop or on a farm.
Everyone does the same course. The difference is whether you take a tourniquet home with you.
Taking a tourniquet home matters more than it sounds. Training on equipment you then own, and that is already on your belt or in your vehicle, is the difference between a skill and a memory.
The course runs at Bisley, near Brookwood in Surrey.
Dates are set as interest builds rather than run to a fixed calendar, so the honest answer on timing is that we schedule one when there are enough people for it. Tell us you want a place and we will be in touch as soon as the next date is fixed.
Message us on WhatsApp, or use the contact form and mention bleed control training. Tell us which option you want and roughly where you are travelling from.
Anyone who shoots, works or spends time where help is not close by. Club members, stalkers, keepers, range staff, instructors and shoot organisers. No medical background is needed and nothing is assumed.
Three hours. Training only is £85. You can also take the course with a CAT 7 tourniquet to keep at £115, or with a CAT 7 in a 5.11 pouch at £140.
No. Everything for the practical work is provided. Wear clothes you do not mind kneeling on the floor in, because the practical element is hands on.
Dates are arranged as demand builds rather than running to a fixed calendar. Tell us you are interested and we will contact you when the next date is set.
Bisley, near Brookwood in Surrey. The exact location and timings are confirmed with your booking.
No. It is practical training in a specific set of skills, not a regulated qualification, and it does not make you a first aider. It teaches you what to do in the minutes before an ambulance arrives.
If you are new to shooting rather than topping up your skills, our private shooting mornings are a supervised introduction with no certificate needed. For the route into owning a firearm, read getting your certificate.
Last reviewed 11 November 2026.