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Intro to Range Safety, Holster and Marksmanship SKILLS

Skills for the NEW Firearm Owner - 3.5 Hours - $125.00

Prerequisite This course presumes you have completed a MA LTC Safety Class and have received your MA LTC This is an introductory class.

Students failing to meet and maintain our safety requirements and/or who cannot meet and immediately demonstrate the minimum skills required for this class may be removed from training. Please ensure you have read through the class description and fully understand our prerequisites before registering.

THIS CLASS IS FOR THE NEW FIREARM OWNER or someone wishing to add to knowledge and skill sets.

Course Outline
Participate in a Range Safety Brief, discuss the elements and how they apply in practice. Learn the fundamentals of choosing equipment for the range, the basics of working from a holster and an intruduction to marksmanship skills. These should become part of your foundational disipline that supports further training concepts. Learn the difference between talent and discipline.

• Discuss Equipment Choices for the Range.
• Range Safety Orientation Details.
• The "How and Why" an organized safety brief and plan matters
• The "Nuts and Bolts" of how to use a range.
• Proper Presentation from and Recovery to an OWB Holster.
• Iron Sights only, no Red Dots.
• Shooting basics - the importance of proper grip, sight alignment, sight picture, stance, trigger control, and follow through.
• Details of sight alignment at various distances.
• The components of the marksmanship mindset.
• Drills – Drills - Drills
• No Live ammunition in the classroom. All firearms are to be unloaded prior to entering the class.

Classes starting at 8:00am will run until 11:45pm.
Classes starting at 1:00pm will run until 4:45pm.
Classes starting at 6:00pm will run until 9:45pm

Equipment List
• Quality functional semi-automatic pistol – Full size and compact pistols only.
• No micro pistols or pocket pistols
• 3 magazines
• Magazine pouch
• Dominant side, hip-mounted OWB holster, or dominant side, belt-mounted OWB holster
• Please wear long pants with pockets and belt loops, a sturdy 1.5" belt, closed toe shoes (no flip flops or sandals), and a crew neck (T-shirt) or button-up shirt (no low-cut neckline)
• Optional, loading devices
• Estimated round count: 150 rounds pistol

Intro to Gear Range Safety Holsters and Marksmanship

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow - 1908 to 1970

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