Sterling Action Firearms

Sterling Action Firearms

Training

Three live-fire courses, three credentials, three audiences.

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Live-Fire Foundation

From Band of Brothers to John Wick — this is the route.

The flagship one-day course for actors, extras, and stunt performers who need their on-screen weapons handling to look like the operators they're playing.

Train under the supervision of NRA UK Bisley-qualified instructors. You'll work with the real thing — historical to modern variants, with gas-powered alternatives where the day's range protocols require. The drills and skills curriculum is the foundation of the core skills real operators use, distilled into a single day.

On the day

  • Weapons handling and manipulation under stress
  • Rifle-to-pistol transitions
  • Movement drills — advancing, withdrawing, cornering
  • Magazine changes and stoppage clearances
  • Introduction to close-quarters battle tactics
Certification
Sterling Action Certified · Level 1, subject to meeting the day's drill standards.
Audience
Actors, extras, stunt performers.
Prerequisites
18+. Places strictly limited.
Duration
Full day.
Location
West London (off the M25). Full address provided on booking confirmation.
Price
£400 per place.
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SWAT Tactics

Taught by instructors from law enforcement specialist operations.

A specialist course in close-quarters tactics, dynamic entry, and team-based weapons drills as practised by UK firearms units. For performers playing armed police, special forces, or military operators who need their tactics to read as authentic.

On the two days

  • Dynamic entry and room clearance
  • Stack formations, movement and angles
  • Verbal commands and ROE under stress
  • Weapons handling in confined spaces
  • Hostage and barricaded subject scenarios
  • Live-fire and force-on-force training elements

Course is led by instructors from UK law enforcement specialist operations. (Officers not named publicly per their force's Business Interest protocol.)

Certification
Sterling Action Certified · SWAT Tactics, subject to meeting the course standards.
Audience
Actors, extras, stunt performers.
Prerequisites
Completion of Live-Fire Foundation. 18+. Places strictly limited.
Duration
Two days.
Location
West London (off the M25). Full address provided on booking confirmation.
Price
£1,000 per place.
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Period Weapons

For 1917, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers — and everything since.

A live-fire marksmanship course on the historic rifles that defined twentieth-century cinema. Worked at Bisley, the home of British shooting, on the M1 Garand (.30-06) and the Lee-Enfield No.4 .303 — the rifles your character actually carried.

On the day at Bisley

  • Marksmanship from prone, kneeling and standing positions
  • Reload drills under range protocols (en bloc clip for the Garand, charger for the Lee-Enfield)
  • Sight picture, breath control, and trigger discipline at extended distance
  • Period-accurate handling — how the rifle was carried, slung, and shouldered
  • All live fire

Led by NRA UK Bisley-qualified instructors with guest historical specialists.

Certification
Sterling Action Certified · Period Weapons, subject to meeting the day's marksmanship standards.
Audience
Actors, extras, stunt performers.
Prerequisites
Live-Fire Foundation preferred. 18+. Places strictly limited.
Duration
Full day.
Location
Bisley, Surrey.
Price
£500 per place.
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Italian Operator Programme

Live-fire abroad. Carbine and pistol. Co-led by UK and French SF instructors.

A multi-day immersive training trip in Italy, built around live-fire carbine and pistol drills under the supervision of UK law enforcement specialist operations instructors and a French Foreign Legion-trained Special Forces colleague. For performers and stunt teams who want operator-level training in a real overseas environment — not a UK range day with European weather, an actual immersive programme on Italian ranges.

On the trip (provisional)

  • Live-fire carbine drills (positions, transitions, reloads under pressure)
  • Pistol fundamentals through to operator-level handling
  • Day and low-light scenarios
  • Movement and team drills
  • Off-range immersion in the Italian setting

Co-led by an instructor from UK law enforcement specialist operations and a former French Foreign Legion Special Forces colleague.

Certification
Sterling Action Certified · Italian Programme, subject to meeting course standards.
Audience
Actors, stunt performers, and seriously committed extras.
Prerequisites
Completion of Live-Fire Foundation and SWAT Tactics. 18+. Places strictly limited.
Duration
Multi-day (TBC — likely 4–6 days incl. travel).
Location
Italy (specific range/venue TBC).
Price
POA.
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Status: Course details being finalised — register interest to be notified when bookings open.