Biography

If life was a Kung Fu movie, Taran Butler's house would be a Shaolin Temple and we would have to call him, "Master." Grand Master is more accurate, as he has achieved the Grand Master ranking in five shooting disciplines. Fifteen time Southwest Pistol League Champion. Ten-time California State Three-Gun overall winner. Four time USPSA Multi Gun National Tactical Champ. Three time Rocky Mountain World Champ. Four time Fort Benning Multi gun victories. Growing up in a house where his mother encouraged Taran and his brother to learn to shoot before they were ten years old.

Taran was 25 when he started to shoot competitively, but it was when he won a Bowling Pin match at a local indoor range with a borrowed Glock 24 from Legendary Stuntman Bruce (First Blood, The Bodyguard, Batman Forever) Barbour. Barbour saw the potential and said. "Kid, you gotta go shoot the Southwest Pistol League". Taran went to a Southwest Pistol League match in Piru, California with a Glock 21 and was able to come in 7th overall out of 118 shooters. He was hooked, going from unclassified to Grandmaster in 14 months, the first Glock Grandmaster ever.

It helps that Butler has his own training facility in his own backyard. He gets to shoot every day, refining the skills needed to master the different shooting disciplines. And he's willing to share his expertise. Recently, Butler left the stages at The Steel Challenge to give a free Handgun skills class to active duty soldiers at the Annual Shoot For The Troops Charity event. What started out as an two hour demonstration turned into an all day long session of hands on training with the Master for these young men and women getting ready to return to the Sand Box. In combat the pistol is the weapon of last resort, but Taran wanted to make sure these soldiers could hit what they were aiming at. A huge movie buff, Taran's Simi Valley facility has been the training site for the superstar casts of the action films including the remake "Red Dawn" (2010), Peter Burg's "The Kingdom" (2007), GI Joe The Rise of Cobra (2009) and Michael Mann's big screen Miami Vice (2006) and Public Enemies (2009).