What a class requires, what it costs, what to bring, and what you actually leave with. If your question isn’t here, email us and we’ll answer it straight.
Yes. These are not beginner classes. Every student must be able to safely operate their firearm and gear and follow range commands. Each course publishes its own self-test so you can shoot it on your own range, untimed, and see where you stand. Pistol Skills & Standards: standing, two hands, five shots at 10 yards, all inside a 6-inch square. Rifle Skills & Standards: prone or seated with support allowed, five shots at 25 yards, all inside a 3-inch circle, rifle zeroed before class. Pistol Applied Performance: five shots at 10 yards inside a 4-inch circle, plus one shot from the holster on a 6-inch target at 7 yards in 2.0 seconds, four of five. Rifle Applied Performance: supported, four of five inside a 1.5-inch circle at 25 yards; a confirmed zero; and standing, five shots at 15 yards inside a 4-inch circle. Skills & Standards is recommended before Applied Performance, but comparable experience may qualify you. Contact us if you are unsure which course fits.
$295 for a one-day course, range fee included. There is no separate charge to settle at the range. Book a pistol day and a rifle day on consecutive days and 10% comes off automatically. Ammunition and personal equipment are not included.
We are based out of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, and that is where our scheduled classes run. We will also train anywhere in the US — if you have a range and a group and want to host us, get in touch and we will come to you.
For pistol: your pistol (a backup is optional), a reliable holster, a belt, three or more magazines, 300+ rounds of reliable ammunition, eye and ear protection, a maintenance kit, and spare batteries if you run an optic. For rifle: your rifle, zeroed before class, 300+ rounds, three or more magazines, a sling, a way to carry and reload magazines from a chest rig, belt or pocket, eye and ear protection, a maintenance kit, and spare batteries if your optic takes them. Per-course lists go on each class page.
No. We don’t rent firearms and we don’t loan them. Bring your own pistol or rifle and your own gear.
Yes. Registration opens your Standards app access a month before class and keeps it open for two weeks afterward. Ten dry-fire sessions are waiting for you however late you sign up, so you arrive prepared and keep training on a plan built from your own numbers. Register early if you can — the full month is where the benefit is.
Fourteen or more days out: full refund or full credit, your choice. Seven to thirteen days out: 50% refund or 100% credit. Fewer than seven days, or no-show: no refund, though a documented emergency may earn a credit or a transfer, decided case by case. Credits are issued as a code and expire six months after issue. If we cancel for weather, range closure or any other reason, you get a full refund or full credit, your choice.
Yes. Every in-person participant signs a liability and assumption-of-risk waiver before training. It is completed electronically during booking, with language specific to Virginia, West Virginia or North Carolina.
Yes. Agency and military training is a separate offering from the open-enrollment classes. Contact us with your unit’s requirement and timeline.
Yes, as long as you’re already comfortable with a gun in your hands. This isn’t a class for someone who has never shot or has very limited experience. It’s built for two kinds of people: shooters with real technique who want to refine it, and shooters who are comfortable and capable but were never actually taught a technique or how to train. If you’ve been shooting for years and nobody ever told you why something works, that’s exactly who this is for. You won’t leave with a day of reps — you’ll leave with technique built on a foundation you understand, and a structured process for getting better on your own. If you can’t meet the entry standard yet, that’s not a door closing. It’s a number to train toward, and it’s published so you know exactly what you’re aiming at. Start in the Standards app: it builds a program from your own numbers and gets you to the gate, and the class takes you past it.
That class was a good start — it gave you the basics and the legal foundation. But a one-time class is a snapshot, not a path. The honest question is what you’d be able to do under stress six months later, and most people have no way to answer that. We pick up where the one-and-done class leaves off: a clear baseline, a structured way to build, and a way to actually see yourself improving.
If you’re already running a baseline, tracking progression and reviewing honestly, you’re ahead of most of the industry — that’s the model we’re built on. The question is whether your self-review is finding the cause or just the symptom. Most shooters train the thing they can see: you call a stage slow, so you push speed. But the slow might be coming from target acceptance, not your splits, and now you’re drilling the wrong variable. We separate symptom from cause and prescribe the work that closes that specific gap.
That’s the most common reason good shooters stall — not effort, diagnosis. You’re adding volume to a system that doesn’t have a volume problem. More reps of an inefficient pattern just make the inefficient pattern more consistent. The move is to find the limiting factor and train that specifically, then carry the baseline forward so you can see what’s actually changing and what’s stuck.
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Daily dry fire puts you ahead of most people, and we’re not going to tell you to stop. The question is whether the reps are pointed at the right thing. Dry fire on your own builds whatever you happen to be practicing — if there’s an inefficiency in the pattern, you’re only making it more consistent. The reps aren’t the problem. The lack of an outside diagnosis is.
Read the long version: why your dry fire isn’t transferring to live fire →
You can, and you should keep doing it. But self-review has a blind-spot problem — you tend to confirm what you already believe is wrong, and video shows you what happened, not why. Pairing your own review with a tracked baseline and a written summary of every session is what turns “I think I’m getting better” into “here’s what changed and here’s what to fix next.”
A lot of the discipline — dry fire, logging reps, filming yourself. All free, all worth doing. What you can’t manufacture alone is the diagnosis and the structure. We’re not selling you the reps you’re already willing to do. We’re selling you the part that tells you whether those reps are aimed correctly, and a record that follows you so the work compounds instead of resetting every few months.
Email us and you’ll get a real answer from one of us, not a form reply.