Tom Smith - Lead Instructor

Tom has been a firearms enthusiast for more than 30 years.  He first learned his skills at the hands of his father who is a veteran that served as a company commander in the army during the 60's.  Tom followed his footsteps and served in the Army as an infantryman in the late 80's.  Tom's enthusiasm has led him to be a lifelong hunter who has hunted game in several countries as well as being a competition shooter in both handgun and long-range rifle.  He is also active in the firearms industry and consults with several firearms industry manufacturers on products and designs.

Tom is a certified instructor with the National Rifle Association, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training.  He is also a Certified Range Safety Officer.  Tom has a Red Belt with black stripe (one level removed from Black Belt) in Taekwondo and has trained in Maui Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, and Greco-Roman Wrestling.

Tom is involved in every aspect of the training and will lead most classes.  His easy-going style allows him to be very approachable during classes.  While very knowledgeable, Tom will never come off as smug and goes to great lengths to provide information in an easy to understand manner.  He considers it a privilege to be involved in each and every class and quickly makes friends with every student.  Training students and preparing them to defend themselves as well as introducing people to the sport of shooting is his passion and it shows in every class he teaches.


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Sabra Smith - Instructor

Sabra has been around firearms for almost 20 years.  She original took up shooting as a way to spend time with her family and found that she not only really enjoyed the shooting sports, but was a very talented shooter.  Sabra is a graduate of many firearms self-defense classes and has been instructing full time for over two years.  She has also studied unarmed self-defense using Chinese Kempo and Akido techniques.

Sabra focuses on assisting newer shooters during the range portion of the class.  Her patience and amazing teaching skills have helped an untold number of novices go from a lack of confidence or even scared to really enjoying their shooting experience and hitting their target with amazing regularity.

Many people credit Sabra with launching their interest in firearms due to her skill as an instructor and her involvement is a primary reason many of our classes have such a high percentage of referred female students.  She is also the friendliest person you could ever hope to meet and will go out of her way to make you feel right at home during your training.



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Jared Gilreath - Instructor

Jared is a self-defense master.  He has been involved in the martial arts for 17 years and has spent the last 7 years as an instructor.  He has a black belt in Taekwondo and has trained in Chinese Kenpo, Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Maui Thai, Close quarter Combatives, and the George Dillman system of Pressure Point Fighting.  Jared has also been involved in the sport of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighting.


Additionally, Jared has 5 years of military service and has served on deployments ranging from Hurricane Katrina to Operation Iraqi Freedom.  While in Iraq, Jared served on a Personal Security Detail for Tier 1 VIP's and was hand selected for a 3-man Personal Security Detail for Brig. General Phillips.

Jared's primary focus is on unarmed self-defense in our advanced classes although his skills as an instructor and master of many different kinds of weapons lends his abilities extremely well to providing great insight into all our classes.  Jared is extremely friendly and helpful and will quickly become a guy you can consider a friend, which is a good thing because you definitely want him on your side.



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Billy Treadwell - Instructor

Billy began his law enforcement career in ’84 with the Stillwater Police Dept.  There he served as a Field Training Officer (FTO) and Investigator.  He received advanced training while operating as part of the Special Project Investigative Team (SPIT) and Special Operations Team (SOT).  As an instructor Billy’s primary focus was Firearms and Law Enforcement Driver Training (LEDT).

Upon leaving SPD Billy furthered his career as an investigator for the Payne County District Attorney’s Office. During the ‘90s he continued to instruct for Meridian Tech Law Enforcement Training Center.  There he instructed the Basic Police Academy for the Department of Correction as well as advanced handgun, shotgun courses and all phases of Oklahoma Security and Private Investigator training.

Today, Billy enjoys spending time passing on his passion for firearms as he spends time at the firing range or hunting with any of his four sons.  He continues to serve the community as a reserve deputy sheriff with Payne County Sheriff’s Department.

Billy could be involved in any of our training classes and adds a lot of real world stories and experience from his law-enforcement career to any class he instructs.  In addition to ongoing firearms training, he is involved in the martial arts and knife fighting techniques.  Billy is a super nice guy and someone you can count on, no matter the situation. .

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Peggy McAbee - Instructor

Peggy has trained in the martial arts for many years and now holds the title of Assistant Instructor.  She has a green belt in Chinese Kempo, a blue belt in Aikido and a purple belt in Taekwondo.  Peggy is also training in Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Kali-Escrima.  She teaches Youth Classes and assists in teaching the Women's Self-Defense Seminars at Unified Martial Arts in Stillwater.

Peggy is a valuable asset in our weaponless self-defense classes.  You can find Peggy training seven days a week in her martial arts along with gun, stick and knife disarming techniques.  She brings not only extensive experience in the martial arts but a woman's point of view to the training.  Her kind words and easy smile makes everyone around her feel at ease.


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Fred Jones - Gunsmith

Fred has been working on guns for 40+ years. His first project was rebuilding a Stevens Favorite at the age of 14. He relined the barrel, made and installed oversize pins & screws, and polished and reblued the rifle. This first excursion into gunsmithing came with the help from a neighbor who was a gunsmith.

 

Fred studied gunsmithing at a community college in Kansas City in 1976, then worked part-time with the gunsmith who taught the class – it was Scott’s Gunshop in Lee’s Summit. He soon received his FFL and opened his own shop later that year out of his basement in Kansas City, MO. At the time, Fred's compliment of tools only included a Unimat SL lathe, bench grinder and a small drill press plus whatever miscellaneous gunsmithing hand tools he could afford. A lot of custom made screws and pins, general repair, sight work, trigger work, etc. were done in that basement.

 

Upon moving to Oklahoma, along with the gunsmithing, Fred opened an antique engine repair shop. He rebabbitted Model T and A engines, old tractors and other antique babbit bearing engines, bored cylinders, ground crankshafts, installed valve seats, rebuilt and balanced transmissions, etc. He rebuilt between 50 and 75 antique auto engines all around Oklahoma during those years but eventually got back into the guns exclusively in 2006.

 

Fred is also a licensed A&P (airframe and powerplant) mechanic and a full-time minister. He pastors the Dover Christian Church, which is a rapidly growing congregation in Dover, Oklahoma. His wife Carol holds a Ph.D. in engineering and is an agricultural engineering professor at Oklahoma State University. They are avid horse people and love to ride their Quarter horses and Missouri Foxtrotter every chance they get. They have four married children and 8 grandchildren and like to save time for them as well!

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