New Shooter - Introductory Course

If you are new to the shooting world and have questions about which equipment is right for you...we can help.  Feel free to contact us and set up a complimentary private or semi-private course to assist you in getting started in the exciting world of shooting sports and defensive shooting activities.

This Handgun course is designed for the beginning student with an emphasis on safety and the fundamentals of marksmanship.  This course will provide an introduction to the concept of balancing speed and accuracy from the holster.  This is an excellent class to prepare students for participation in a CCW (concealed carry weapon) permit course and introduce students to self defense with a firearm.  With an emphasis on safety, this course will assist the student with a comfortable, safe environment while developing foundational defensive handgun skills.

This is a 3-4 hour range and lecture course covering the fundamentals of defensive handgun principles.  Lecture topics include anatomy of the firearm, safety, range requirements, carry methods and principles of self defense.   Range time will place an emphasis on safety, presentation from the holster, fundamentals of marksmanship, ready positions, shooting controlled pairs at distances out to 15 yards.

Beginning Firearm Course

This course is designed for the new shooter that has already purchased their first firearm and would like detailed instruction on safety, cleaning, range rules, marksmanship and the legal concerns regarding firearms. This is a perfect course for the beginning shooter looking for an instruction into the excited world of shooting sports.  Contact us today to set up a course on a private or semi-private basis during a time/date that works best for you.

This Intermediate Handgun course is designed to take the beginning and intermediate student that already has the basic understanding of handgun safety and marksmanship and elevate their skills by acquiring a balance of speed and accuracy from the holster.  This class focuses on distances from “close contact” (arms length) out to 25 yards and introduces time pressures.  This course is also well suited for advanced handgun students that are looking at pushing their skills and elevating their abilities to test themselves against challenging distance and time pressures.  This is an excellent class to prepare students for participation in the Advanced CCW 1 course offered by Defensive TRIAD. Prior enrollment in DH-I or the equivalent is required. 

This is a 2-3 hour shooting course with minimal lecture time.  Range time will place an emphasis on presentation from the holster, ready positions, controlled pairs, failure to stop and dedicated head shots with shooting distances out to 25 yards.  We will cover malfunction/stoppage drills and reload drills with an emphasis on speed.  We will introduce defensive tactics, moving and shooting, improvised positions and multiple targets.

This two hour Intermediate Handgun Skill Builder course is designed as a refresher course for the intermediate student that has already taken the Intermediate Handgun course and wishes to elevate and refine their skills by acquiring a balance of speed and accuracy from the holster.  This class focuses on distances from “close contact” (arms length) out to 25 yards with time pressure and focuses on the DTRIAD handgun test.  This is an excellent class to prepare intermediate students for participation in the Advanced CCW 1 course offered by Defensive TRIAD, as well as test advanced students that understand the need for continued practice.  This course is designed to get the intermediate student to the level of ability to pass the Intermediate Handgun Test.

Advanced CCW will take you beyond the square range practice and introduce you to the realm of dynamic, reality-based training practices that are required to better prepare you to defend yourself and your loved ones during a violent encounter.  This course series is designed to take the basic knowledge you have gained from your standard CCW course, basic firearms courses and understanding the volatile nature of today’s socio-economic climate, and will elevate your abilities to provide you the skills to survive a deadly encounter against a dedicated, violent attack.  This is a highly dynamic course that will challenge your abilities and push you out of your comfort zone.  This is a highly requested course and is limited to students who have shown exceptional firearms skill and dedication to their training.  The usual route for acceptance into this course is a 90% or better score on the Intermediate Handgun Skills Test from the Intermediate Defensive Handgun Course or the Skill Builder course.

For many of us, we spend a great deal of time in and around a vehicle.  The chances of having a vehicle be part of an aggressive violent encounter are extremely high.  It is therefore, our belief that civilian vehicle defense tactics are of utmost importance.  In order to better prepare you to deal with a violent encounter in and around your vehicle, Defensive TRIAD offers this vehicle tactics course.  This is not a driving course. This is a shooting and tactics course that offers students the instruction on how to survive an aggressing violent attack, how to equip your vehicle with the tools needed to survive an encounter and how to protect those in a vehicle with you.  This course is limited to students that has shown a thorough understanding and ability with firearm skills by passing the Defensive TRIAD handgun test.  Prior enrollment in the Defensive TRIAD self defense courses are also highly recommended prior to enrollment in this course.

Are you tired of looking at your target and getting hand sized groups?  Does it feel like no matter what you do, you just can’t shoot that “one hole group” or “ragged hole group” that others talk about.  If that sounds like you, then you need this course.  One Hole Group is designed to take pistol shooters to the next level with accuracy and introduce the new rules of marksmanship that go beyond the fundamentals of Grip, Stance, Sight Alignment, Sight Picture, Trigger Press, and Follow Through.  The new rules will introduce you to the mind body connection and introduce psychological aspects of marksmanship that will exponentially change your accuracy with a handgun.  You will be introduced to aspects of shooting that are taught at the upper echelon firearm schools and military branches in the nation and leave with practical lessons that will apply to other aspects of your life as well.

While there are no prerequisites to this class, it is not a beginners class.  It is highly recommended that students planning on attending have a thorough understanding of firearm safety and the fundamentals of marksmanship, as detailed in our DHI course.  As always, safety is paramount and there are no exceptions when it comes to the safety of our students.  It is recommended that you are drawing from the holster with this class, but it is not necessary.

This is a combined course of our Advanced CCW concepts and our Self Defense concepts to achieve a fluid transition between empty hand defensive tactics and the use of firearms to defend against a violent attack.  This course is a culmination of all the skills taught at Defensive TRIAD and places students into high intensity situations regarding fast responses and simulates the violent nature of a dedicated violent aggressor in multiple different scenarios including home and social settings as well as vehicle engagements.  Student acceptance into this course requires passing the Defensive TRIAD handgun test as well as a thorough understanding of the self defense strategies taught at Defensive TRIAD from prior enrollment in these courses.

Any altercation involving firearms is dynamic and involves delivering accurate rounds downrange while moving, finding cover and, likely, multiple adversaries.   This course takes these factors into consideration and introduces the student to high speed point shooting.  While we at Defensive TRIAD are proponents of maintaining the fundamentals of marksmanship including an emphasis on proper sight alignment and sight picture, we also understand the value that point shooting brings to the defensive pistol arena.

Historical pistol craft masters such as Bill Jordan have proved that point shooting is a viable method of delivering accurate rounds into targets from arms length to 15 yards in as little as 37/100ths of a second from the holster.  Now who can argue with that?

We at Defensive TRIAD are advocates of utilizing the sights of the handgun, however it is well understood and agreed upon in the defensive pistol world that Bill Jordan, Col. Rex Applegate and Jelly Bryce all proved that point shooting is a highly effective method to ensure that you get home safe at night.

Cars, Vehicles and Concealed Carry

This is a tactics course designed for the CCW holder and/or home defense situation.  The course is prepared as a force on force introduction for students looking to add realism to their training with simulated engagements in a safe environment.

Don't let your first time at defending yourself in your vehicle or home/office setting be the REAL DEAL.  Sign up for this course to get the training you need to survive a life or death encounter.

The tactics performed in this course include vehicle tactics against armed aggressors, home invasion, office invasion, active shooter and weapons retention against aggressive attackers attempting to access your firearm.