Paul Van Dunk
Firearms Instructor & Consultant
Paul Van Dunk has over 17 years in the shooting community experiencing many disciplines. training classes as well as IDPA, Steel Challenge, USPSA, and other local competitions.
Paul has taken that experience and brought it to the firearm training community. Utilizing his experience as a former competitor, and student, his curriculum is a blend of current standards with both pistols and rifles. Paul has also worked with several law enforcement agencies providing his unique approach to training and education.
Paul’s performance based approach to teaching is in-depth, thorough, and information intensive. Paul is also an experienced gunsmith with years of experience with working on firearm projects with top industry leading firearm companies.
Paul continues to learn, take classes and participate in the community. He is active on twitch and the local community in Idaho.
Stephen Howe’s firearms journey began in 2010 in Kansas City, MO training with local law enforcement as a civilian with a heavy emphasis on tactics. Always eager to learn, he’s trained with some of the best professionals across the country as well as building the firearms training community around Kansas City.
In 2017, Stephen was introduced to performance shooting and started training with Paul VanDunk as well as organizing Pace Performance classes to be hosted in Kansas City. In 2019, Paul brought Stephen on as another instructor for Pace Performance and has taught with him ever since.
First and foremost, Stephen considers himself a student and continues to train under Paul VanDunk as well as other firearm instructors whenever he can. When Stephen isn’t on the range, he is training in martial arts or building his companies in the telecom and aerial survey industries.
Testimonials
I have been to several “instructor level” classes during my career and without a doubt, I would rate Paul’s class as superb and well worth the money for any shooter, a new to the game shooter, an intermediate shooter or experienced shooter. Without a doubt, I will be attending Pistol 2 and also his carbine 1 courses. I will also recommend them to the other firearms Instructors in my department.
- Jeff Lowe
The class is geared toward people who are new to shooting. Don’t be dismissive if you are an experienced shooter. The class is structured in a manner that will challenge you regardless of your skill level. Anyone can benefit from exposure to new or different techniques and there were enough of them presented in Paul’s class that even the most crusty of us will take away something. [...]
My biggest take away is the need to commit to developing Paul’s technique and not focusing on going faster - yet. Paul gave me a “map”, it is up to me to follow it.
- Neil Tanis