Handgun Basics & Fundamentals
One key essential that most handgun owners overlook are the fundamentals for operating the gun which often results in learning bad habits thus resulting in an ineffective gun operator. This course focuses on training content and style that will teach the student how to establish accuracy and consistency with their handgun. To help ensure this, at least 75% of the curriculum is carried out inside the classroom to foster an atmosphere of focus and concentration with fewer distractions.
- Stance and Stability
- Working Through Fatigue
- Handgun Handling
- Safety
- Aiming Techniques
- Speed vs Accuracy
- Carry Modes
- Suppressing the Threat
- Reloading and Recovering
Concealed Carry & Engagement Strategies
Your handgun will be of no use if you cannot access it. This course will bring to light crucial mistakes with improper concealed carry methods and thus demonstrate proper and effective carry strategies. This curriculum is designed to instill confidence in the student when engaging a threat while carrying concealed by teaching the appropriate applicable tactics.
Training criteria:
- Carry Methods
- Static concepts
- Practice and Repetition
- Safety Concepts
- Engaging and Disengaging
- Moving Techniques
- Threat Assessment
- Standing Down
- Use of Force Aftermath
Advanced Handgun
This carefully designed course takes the learning objectives from our Handgun Basics and Fundamentals course and puts them into motion. As this course calls for emphasis with hands on learning, less than 25% of it is in the classroom leaving the remainder on the range. Our basics course is required as a prerequisite.
Training criteria:
- Shoot/Don’t shoot scenarios
- Effective Communication
- Shooting While Moving
- Tactical Reloads
- Working Through Gun Failure
- Threat Assessment
- Standing Down
- Use of Force Aftermath Revisited
Handgun Customized
If our posted courses simply do not fit your needs, let us know what you are looking for and our course design team will do everything possible to make it happen. Use the contact button below to request a consultation.
NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting
NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting is an NRA sanctioned course. If you are a first time handgun owner or you want to start your NRA certification, this is the course for you.
- Course topics include:
- Gun safety rules
- Proper operation of revolvers and semi-automatic pistols
- Ammunition knowledge and selection
- Pistol selection and storage
- Shooting fundamentals
- Pistol inspection and maintenance
- Marksmanship
- Shooting range safety.
Additionally, students will complete live fire training and a nationally standardized shooting qualification while on the range with an NRA Certified Instructor. Students will receive the NRA Guide: Basics of Pistol Shooting handbook, take a Basics of Pistol Shooting Student Examination and receive a course completion certificate bearing the signature of the NRA Secretary and your NRA Certified Instructor. Click the course Contact button below to schedule a class.
NRA Protection Inside the Home
NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course is an NRA sanctioned course. It teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual’s right to self-defense.
Prerequisite: This course is for law-abiding adult citizens, as defined by applicable federal, state, or local law, and experienced shooters (shooters able to show mastery of the basic skills of safe gun handling, shooting a group, zeroing the firearm, and cleaning the firearm). Prospective participants can demonstrate that they have the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes by producing an NRA Basic Pistol Course Certificate, NRA FIRST Steps Course Certificate, NRA pistol competitive shooting qualification card, military DD 214 with pistol qualification, or passing the Pre-Course Assessment.
Description: This is an eight-hour course. Students should expect to shoot approximately 100 rounds of ammunition. Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, firearms and the law, how to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, the Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, and course completion certificate. Please use the course inquiry button below to schedule a course.
License To Carry Course
If you are looking to schedule a Texas License to Carry course for a small group, we’ve got you covered. In the great State of Texas you must have a license to carry a handgun in a public setting and this begins with an LTC course through an authorized instructor. Our instructors are passionate about providing effective training and feel that every law abiding and responsible gun owner deserves such training. Texas Defense360 utilizes active law enforcement officers who are also firearms instructors certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
With years of experience and many unfortunate encounters with gun owners, these instructors will use real life examples to demonstrate common mistakes from many LTC holders. As stated in various pages of this website, our outlook is not to pump out large numbers of students in any course, rather, to produce knowledge and proficiency. We will provide assistance to each LTC course participant to ensure their application process goes as seamless as possible.
LTC Preparation Course
Too often LTC course participants find out too late that they are need of fundamentals training. This course was developed to accommodate LTC candidates by preparing them before they attempt the LTC course. This prep course will cover the fundamentals of shooting and have the participant shooting center mass with ease.
Course length: 4 Hours
LTC Refresher Course
As of January 1, 2016, chapter 52.061 of the Texas Labor Code mandates that a public or private employer may not prohibit an employee, who holds a license to carry a concealed handgun, from transporting or storing a firearm or ammunition the employee is authorized by law to possess in a locked, privately owned motor vehicle in a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area the employer provides for employees.
With this legislative change, many employers have opted to authorize their employers to carry a concealed handgun inside the workplace premises as well. This course was created to provide such employers with an option to maintain responsibility and safety in the workplace by keeping their employees abreast of legislative updates and key issues with LTC rules as well. For further course inquiry, please click the button below.
For general inquiries on these courses or requests to schedule a course, please use the course inquiry button below.