About Us

PeaceMakers Gun Range was designed and built from start to finish by two friends, Kent Gilbert

and Buck Farmer, both retired Houston Police Officers. They became friends while working

together on the Department and decided to take a leap of faith and build something that was a

long-time dream for both of them. This turned into a four year project, something that both of

them laugh about to this day. Money was tight, so they did all the work themselves. They started

with an old dump truck, excavator and bulldozer to clear the land and build the shooting berms

with clay dug from a site on one corner of the property. Over a thousand dump truck loads later

the berms were finished. Then came endless hours of tying rebar, pouring concrete, laying block,

hauling gravel, welding, cutting and drilling steel, designing and building a roof from scratch, and

numerous other tasks. When they finally finished, they were very proud of their little gun

range. They hope that you like it too.

The goal of Kent and Buck has always been to provide a safe and clean facility where people

can come and actually train, not just stand in one place and make holes in paper. Shooting on

the move, engaging multiple targets, shooting from cover and around obstacles, all of this and

more will be available, things that are not available at other ranges.

Group classes will consist of four to five hours of training: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced in

both pistols and carbines. Shooters don’t need to bring any equipment; the range will supply

pistols, belts, holsters and mag pouches for the pistol classes, and AR-15’s for the carbine

classes. If you want to bring your own eye and ear protection, that will be fine. Advanced

shooters will probably want to bring their own weapons and rigs, and that is fine too.

Private one-on-one training is also available, and instructors will make every effort to work with

your schedule.

Kent and Buck are both honorably retired from the Houston Police Department. They spent the

majority of their careers working the streets, and in their time arrested and dealt with thousands

of violent suspects and people with severe psychological problems. They bring real-world

experience to training classes. Both believe that mental preparation is of great importance in

training to survive violent encounters. The dreaded “lag time” can prove deadly even for

someone who is a skilled shooter. They address this in every class and teach ways to overcome

it, including visualization, scenario-based training, stress-fire courses, malfunction drills, and

detailed knowledge of Texas laws related to use-of-force and deadly force. Combined, the two

of them have more than forty years of hard-won knowledge, experience and skills from

real-world street encounters.

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