Meet The Team
About Our Instructors
professional + Passionate
KOSC prides themselves on providing top-level instruction. All KOSC staff are CPR and First Aid certified.
KOSC’s lead firearms instructors have extensive knowledge regarding all types of firearms. They have been through high levels of firearm training with multiple NGO’s; KOSC instructors are certified Level One National Sporting Clay Instructors and NRA Pistol, Rifle and Shotgun Instructors.
These instructors are taught how to carefully and properly teach campers safe firearm handling skills and they ensure all campers are safe while on the range. All KOSC instructors strive to make sure the kids are safe, skilled, and successful while on the range, and KOSC is proud to have a clean safety record for all of its history.
Meet the Team
Taylor Byars
Camp Director
Taylor has been either attending or working in camps just like KOSC for almost 20 years. She graduated from Clemson University with both her Bachelor and Master Degrees in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. Taylor has always had an affinity for working with children in the outdoors and that is why she decided to join the KOSC team! While she grew up an outdoors-woman in South Carolina, she loves all the waterfowl opportunities that California has to offer. Taylor is a California Hunter Education Instructor, a NRA Range Safety Officer, a National Archery in the Schools Program Level 2 Instructor, as well as a Certified 4H Shotgun Instructor.