These courses are personal one on one tutoring, couples, families or small groups. We are different from big box trainings that run 20 people through a spoon fed course with one big name instructor and a couple range safeties that hope you can keep up and teach a minimal standard to the majority of students. We work at your pace from your current skill level to build you up to your full potential. Below are starting points, we tailor the course to fit the clients’ needs.
General Training Costs are $30 per person per hour for groups of 2 or more. Single person only is $40 per hour.
The first thing is to contact us and we can help you develop a training plan.
Beginning firearms safety: For the new shooter, children as young as 8 or adults wanting a solid grounding in firearms knowledge. This is very close to the basic NRA courses. It starts with safe gun handling, how fire arms work and then moves to limited range time shooting 22 trainers. Nothing rushed, going at the pace of the student, to learn safe gun habits in both word and deed. This can be a half day to 2 full days, it can be pistol or rifle or both covered together. For younger children their parents can attend the class at no extra charge and we can break it down into several shorter sessions to deal with attention span capabilities.
Concealed carry for Oregon requirements: This is a 4 hour class room course that meets the State of Oregon requirements for concealed carry. Not only lecture, but hands on with a variety of handguns and holsters to learn the basics of safe handling, effective concealment, and Oregon law. You can come to our classroom in southern Clackamas County or we can travel to you, and even teach this in your living room. Unlike our other courses we can accommodate larger groups of up to 10. The base cost of this is $100 for the class room portion. If we travel to you we add a reasonable mileage cost. Ask about discounts for larger groups.
Pistol: The tool you are most likely to have with you when trouble comes and also the most difficult to master. This can be a few hours to several days in length. Start learning the basics of shooting, reloading, malfunction drills, and weapon maintenance. Expand your pistol skills to 50 yards and beyond, to close in shooting drills on photo realistic, multiple targets. Then push yourself to learn shooting from a variety positions using cover, moving and shooting, one handed and weak hand work, to muzzle contact on life-size dummy targets.
Carbine: The modern fighting carbine (ARs, AKs, various bull pups, pistol caliber semi autos, and the like) is currently the most effective tool for self defense. As with pistol we start with the basics and expand to usable fighting skills. Basic marksmanship: reloading, how to clear malfunctions, and weapon maintenance. Learn how point of aim changes to point of impact at fighting ranges, shooting drills with multiple targets at across the room or street distances. Advanced work: learn how to use cover, a variety of fighting positions, along with moving and shooting. We can include some pistol work in the carbine course.
Working as a team: A good team working together is more effective than the sum of its parts. For a couple, groups of friends or small prepper groups to learn fighting as a team sport. This can be a separate course or included in another course such as team sections to pistol, carbine or other courses. Note: this is for good people wanting to defend themselves from bad people. Militias with odd political agendas look elsewhere.
Fighting in and around vehicles and buildings: In the modern world people are commonly around buildings and vehicles, and that’s where a lot of fights happen. Learning to fight in and around buildings and vehicles is a key skill. What is cover and what is concealment, how do barriers effect bullets, how to work angles to your advantage, the simple mechanics of getting in and out of a vehicle with weapons safely, and learning about what the distance of your sight over your barrel means so you do not shoot your own cover. This can be a separate course or included in other courses. We will allow you to shoot though the windows and windshields of our training vehicle with the cost of replacement included in the course cost. With a group of 4 or more this can be under $100 dollars each.
Body Armor and fighting gear: The increasing use of body armor by both good people and bad people is as vast a change as going from bolt action and revolvers to semi-auto rifles and pistols and will have as much an effect on weapons and tactics. Not just for military and police anymore, body armor for civilian use. This can cover what you quickly throw on to bump back in the middle of the night, something to have in the car in dangerous times and places, or what to defend family and home in a major disaster when 911 stops working for a couple weeks. This is as much a class room portion to understand the ever growing amount of options. Get hands on with soft and hard armor, steel, ceramic, poly, composite, concealable, plate carries, full on armor carrier, or even modern folding plate carriers that can appear as a computer bag and seconds later give you front and back rifle protection, and the huge importance of sizing. Also learn about chest rigs and fighting belts of various types to learn what will work for you. Then, on the range learn to get the most out of your system and how to fight opponents with body armor. This can be separate or as part of another course. Hint: carbines and body armor are a peanut butter and jelly thing.
Intro to night: Half the time it is dark. This is a single evening course that starts with a solid grounding in how the human body and mind work in the dark. Then we progressively go over white light, night vision and thermal strengths and weakness and how they can work together. Both a class room and field portion with hands on a large variety of hand held and weapons mounted white lights, third generation night vision both head and weapon mounted, thermals, digital smart scopes, IR lasers and illuminators. If you are looking to get into night vision this is an excellent chance to try before you buy and learn how they work in the real world with an experienced instructor. $250 per person.
Advanced night work: Shooting at night. This can be white light for pistol and carbine incorporated into the course with a single night. Or several nights working with night vision learning how to safely move and shoot, adapting your day light skills to complete darkness. We can also work with the varmint hunter or rancher to learn to use modern technology to effectively and lawfully deal with predator animals.
Fighting, not shooting: Beyond the basic safety and concealed carry class room portion, only about a third of what we teach is marksmanship, but the focus is the modern martial art of fighting with the pistol and carbine. In the past this might be a cudgel, sword and bow, quarter staff, the rapier and dagger, tomahawk and bowie knife, flintlock pistol and musket, single action revolver and lever action carbine. Today it is the pistol and carbine, in and around vehicles, day or night, using modern equipment and body armor when you can, not being static but moving, using cover and dealing with multiple targets. We happily teach new shooters the basics in a safe environment, but our passion teaching our clients with the most effective and modern tools to stop bad people from harming them and their loved ones. Contact us today to start a customized program mixing any of the listed courses to train you to your full potential.
Considerations and requirements to bring to a course
-While we do have ear and eye protection available for use, clients should bring their own that will better fit them.
-NO open toe shoes, Sherpa or appendix carry holsters (if you have a specific requirement on this issue call us and we may work something out).
-For most handgun work an outside the waistband holster, a stiff belt and at least 3 magazines or speed loaders for revolvers.
-For carbine (AR, AK, Bullpup, Semi-auto sub-gun etc..) a sling is required and a red dot optic of some sort and white light is strongly recommended along with 3 magazines and method to carry them.
-With all firearms bring the manual and cleaning supplies (we can supply cleaning supplies for a nominal fee) and 300 to 400 hundred rounds per day per weapon. If only a half day cut number in half. NO reloaded ammunition of any sort, this is a issue with our liability insurance and is not negotiable. If it is in the middle of a buying panic and you cannot find ammunition, contact us, we keep limited amounts on hand for clients at market price.
-For all day courses check with us about meals.
Gun Rentals: We have a variety both duty size and compact semi-auto pistols from Glock, Smith and Wesson, FN, Walther, Kimber, Colt. We also have a number of carbines, ARs, AK’s also well as semi-auto sub-gun clones such as MP-5’s. We have red dots and white lights mounted on some of the pistols and all of the carbines. Also basic 22 rifle and training pistol for entry level course. Contact us on what you would like to work with. We have a limited amount of body armor and fighting gear to try out during courses as well. Also suppressors on a limited basis, call for details.
Rates are $30 per rifle, $20 per pistol or 22 trainer per day, ammunition at market rates.
General Training Costs are $30 per person per hour for groups of 2 or more. Single person only is $40 per hour.
The first thing is to contact us and we can help you develop a training plan.