Built With Law Enforcement in Mind
The Benjamin Guard was designed from the ground up to serve agencies and officers, not just civilian shooters. The facility is TCOLE accredited through Grayson College, which means qualifying courses count toward officers' continuing education. Departments do not have to choose between training that develops real capability and training that satisfies the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. Here you get both in the same day, on the same ground.
That accreditation sits on top of 158 acres in Cumby, Texas, purpose-built for the work officers actually do. The team running it brings backgrounds in special operations, federal contracting, and international law enforcement instruction. The result is a venue where the standards, the ranges, and the instruction were all built to law enforcement requirements rather than retrofitted to them.
Ranges That Match the Mission
Most departments are limited by their range, not their officers. The Benjamin Guard removes that ceiling. Two purpose-built environments anchor the property.
- The Dynamic Bay is 150 yards deep by 100 yards wide with a 60-person capacity and live fire throughout. Vehicles, aircraft fuselages, and buses are brought in for scenario work, so officers train against the objects they encounter on duty. This is where Tactical Vehicle Operations runs.
- The Shoot House Complex covers more than 6,000 square feet across three independent, leveled dry-fire structures. The multi-room layout supports CQB and room clearing under realistic conditions, and its independence means more than one training track can run at the same time.
A squad can work live fire in the Dynamic Bay while another element runs CQB next door. That parallel capacity is what lets an agency move a full shift through meaningful repetitions in a single visit instead of cycling people one at a time through a static lane.
Courses Officers Can Train Here
The course catalog targets the skills patrol, tactical, and specialized units use on the job. Live fire, vehicle work, and structured marksmanship are all on the schedule.
- Tactical Vehicle Operations — Mobile Threat Interdiction. A two-day course run in the Dynamic Bay, $650 per seat, with a 6-student minimum and a 20-seat maximum. It addresses fighting in, around, and from vehicles, a recurring reality for officers.
- Combat Pistol and Combat Carbine. Both disciplines are offered to build and validate the marksmanship and weapon handling officers rely on under stress.
The current schedule and seat availability are published on the training page. Because several courses qualify for TCOLE continuing education, agencies can plan their annual training calendar around dates that serve both compliance and capability.
Group and Agency Bookings
The facility is set up for departments, not only individuals. Group and agency bookings let a unit reserve the ground it needs and run its own cohort. The classroom is built for full-cohort capacity in a mission-brief configuration, so an element can plan, brief, and debrief in the same place it trains. Ranges run on firm rules: brass-cased ammunition only, ANSI-rated eye protection and NRR 22+ ear protection, and Range Safety Officer commands that are absolute. Those standards are non-negotiable and apply to every cohort on the property.
FIELD NOTE —Brief in the classroom, fight in the Shoot House, debrief before the brass cools. The whole cycle happens on one site.
For agencies that want a course built around a specific mission set or unit size, the team can structure a booking to fit. The 60-person Dynamic Bay capacity and the parallel tracks in the Shoot House mean even a large unit can train together rather than splitting across multiple days or facilities.
Close Enough to Train Regularly
Proximity is what turns a good range into a department's standing training site. The Benjamin Guard sits about 105 minutes east of downtown Dallas on I-30 at 13250 TX-11, Cumby, Texas. That places it within practical reach of DFW-area departments and squarely in range for East Texas agencies. A unit can deploy in the morning, run a full day of live fire and CQB, and return the same day.
For departments that have outgrown their own facilities, that distance makes recurring training realistic instead of a once-a-year event. Agencies ready to book a cohort or ask about TCOLE-qualifying dates can reach the team directly through the contact page, with a response within 24 hours.