Shooting Range Kit

Nothing generally happens on a shooting range other than Scouts shooting down range.  That's fine, but you MUST be ready to take care of a catastrophic injury.

If you are going to a camp that has a shooting range, you really should bring a Range Kit, even if you aren't assigned to cover the range.  You may end up covering the range, or they may need a 

Shooting Range Kit - Major Trauma Kit

Basic Shooting Range Kit

• Use a commercially made bag designed for quick and easy access

• Commercial Tourniquet

  • Most recent generation of SOF-T or CAT 

  • Don't get Tourniquet from Amazon, which may be a counterfeit

• 3 or 4 inch rolled gauze (can be cut up for many uses)

  • Ideally Combat Gauze 

• Full size duct tape or cloth tape rolled around pencil/pen

  • Gorilla Tape is generally too much for First-Aid, but is OK for true emergencies

• Vented Chest Seal Kits 

  • Russell * * 

  • HyFin *

  • Sentinel *

  • SAM

  • Bolin

  • Note: unless you have trained personnel, you should NOT use non-vented chest seals
    * Note:  Kheirabadi et al (2017) suggests that Sentinal and Russell with laminar valves are less likely to clog than other seals
    * Note: Paquett et al (2021) suggests Hyfin Vent Chest Seal and Russell Chest Seal were the most effective chest seals

• 4x4 gauze

• 3 or 4 inch Elastic warp

• Duct tape or cloth tape rolled around pencil/pen

• Trauma Shears

• Triangular bandages

• Assortment of Band-Aids - because people still get cuts and scrapes

Shooting Range Kits for Medical Providers

• Same as above plus:

• Airway Kit

  • Provider preference

    • "J-tube" oralpharyngeal airway

    • Nasal cannula

    • I-Gel

    • E-Tube and laryngoscope

• Needle Decompression Kit (ARS)

  • North American Rescue has a great kit

  • See https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/1336/TCCC-chest-trauma-guideline-update/default.aspx 

• Chest Seal Kits

  • Should include BOTH vented and non-vented seals

  • Only use non-vented seals if you know how and are prepared to decompress a tension pneumothorax