DEFENSIVE PISTOL FUNDAMENTALS

Take Your Fundamentals Further. Build Confidence. Develop Practical Pistol Skills.

Defensive Pistol Fundamentals is a full-day handgun course for shooters who already have a solid grasp of basic pistol skills and are ready to apply them under greater demand.

Training focuses on accuracy, efficiency, manipulation, movement, visual processing, and decision-making through progressively more challenging live-fire exercises.

This is not an introductory shooting course.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Duration: Approx. 8 Hours
Tuition: $300 All-Inclusive Promotional Price
Experience Level: Intermediate
Class Size: Maximum 10 Students
Live Fire: Approx. 300 Rounds ($90 Value)
Prerequisite: Pistol Fundamentals or Equivalent Training/Experience
Equipment Required: None

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

FUNDAMENTALS UNDER DEMAND

• Grip and recoil management
• Trigger control at varying speeds
• Visual processing and sight management
• Consistent pistol presentation
• Accuracy at varying distances
• Follow-up shots and cadence
• Balancing speed and precision

PISTOL MANIPULATION

• Efficient pistol presentation
• Establishing a strong, repeatable firing grip
• Magazine changes
• Ammunition management
• Common malfunction recognition and correction
• Maintaining safe control during manipulation

MULTIPLE-SHOT & MULTIPLE-TARGET SKILLS

• Controlled follow-up shots
• Target-to-target transitions
• Visual transitions
• Managing different target sizes and distances
• Adjusting shooting speed based on difficulty
• Maintaining shot accountability

MOVEMENT & POSITIONAL SHOOTING

• Safe movement with a handgun
• Establishing stable shooting positions
• Entering and leaving shooting positions
• Alternative shooting positions
• Maintaining safe muzzle and trigger-finger discipline while moving

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Structured exercises progressively combine the skills developed throughout the day, with emphasis on:

• Safe decision-making
• Efficient pistol operation
• Visual processing
• Consistency under increased difficulty
• Recognizing when to increase or decrease shooting speed

DEVELOPING THE SHOOTER

This course is designed to help students understand how to apply their skills when the shooting problem changes.

Individualized coaching helps students recognize inefficiencies, identify mistakes, and make meaningful corrections to their own performance.

Accuracy First. Efficiency Second. Speed Follows.

No handgun? No ammunition? No training equipment? No problem.

Everything needed for the course can be provided so you can focus on training.

Your tuition includes:

✓ Training pistol
✓ Pistol-mounted red-dot optic
✓ Magazines
✓ 9mm ammunition
✓ Required training equipment
✓ Eye protection and electronic hearing protection
✓ Targets
✓ Training materials
✓ Professional instruction and individualized coaching
✓ Course completion certificate
✓ New England Firearms Training T-shirt

Students who own suitable equipment may request to train with their personal handgun and associated equipment, subject to instructor approval and course requirements.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is a good fit for:

• Graduates of Pistol Fundamentals
• Experienced recreational shooters
• Handgun owners seeking more advanced training
• Shooters looking to improve speed while maintaining accuracy
• Shooters looking to strengthen pistol manipulation skills
• Red-dot pistol shooters looking to advance their abilities
• Responsible armed citizens seeking additional skills-based training

Students should already demonstrate safe firearm handling and a working understanding of basic pistol operation before attending.

PERSONALIZED COACHING THROUGHOUT THE DAY

Our small-group format allows instructors to work closely with students as the shooting problems become more demanding.

Each exercise has a clear training objective designed to improve skill, efficiency, and decision-making.

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