Public Training opportunities

 Using industry standard NRA and USCCA concepts and our decades of experience teaching CHL/LTC and other fundamentals classes, we have built a unique, hands-on approach to getting you safe and proficient as quickly as possible. Our Handgun Shooting Fundamentals - I (HSF-I) course is truly unique in the industry. Designed to take a complete novice, beginner, or "casual" shooter through the fundamentals of safe and accurate handgun shooting. In a little over 3 hours we'll cover:

Safety/medical/range commands

How to handle a loaded handgun and make it safe

How load a handgun and make it ready to fire

6 Fundamentals of defensive shooting

• Stance
• Grip/presentation
• Sight alignment
• Sight picture
• Trigger pull/breathing
• Follow through

Then we'll put 100-200 rounds downrange, progressing from single shots at 3 yards, through multiple shots at 7  yards to clanging steel at 45 feet on steel targets! At the end of the class, you'll know how to safely and accurately use your handgun to defend your self, your family or your home. 

Our Handgun Shooting Fundamentals - II” (HSF-II) course is Designed to build off the skills you learned in HSF-I  and make you a better, safer, more confident shooter.  In a little over 3 hours we'll cover:

Review of Safety/medical/range commands,

handling a handgun and the 6 Fundamentals of defensive shooting from HSF-I. We'll then add to your skills things like:

• Clearing Malfunctions and Stoppages
• Emergency and Tactical Reloading
• Drawing your gun from an Outside the Waistband holster (not concealed)
• Disassembling and Cleaning your gun

Then We'll get back on the range to put another 

100-200 rounds downrange, shooting steel and paper targets while focusing on balancing speed and precision, engaging multiple targets, using the reset for multiple shots, longer strings of fire and introducing stress through the use of a shot timer for random starts, timed drills and friendly competition.  

At the end of the class, you'll be even better equipped to safely and accurately use your handgun to defend your self, your family or your home. 

Defensive Shooting Fundamentals Levels 1 and 2 will guide you through the steps you'll need to take to go from just sending rounds downrange to actually training in specific, tested methods of armed self-defense. From stance to grip to physical shooting technique, Defensive Shooting Fundamentals Levels 1 and 2 will help you hone the edge on your inner warrior expert. You'll get your body working with your gun instead of against it, you'll learn which intuitive skills work best with what your body will naturally do while under stress in a combat situation, and you'll learn to apply this information simply and effectively - regardless of your skill level.

Our Tactical Medical Training for civilians is taught by medical professional from our friends at Strategic Trauma Solutions. These classes will guide you through the steps you'll need to keep an injured person alive until professional medical care can be found. In addition to CPR/AED/Stroke care, learn how to effectively treat a variety of serious medical conditions with an IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit). 

Some of the life-saving techniques and interventions you will learn are:

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and pre-hospital settings.

Self Aid Buddy Care (SABC)

Self Aid Buddy Care encompasses basic life support and limb-saving techniques to help wounded or injured personnel survive in medical emergencies until medical help is available 

Stop The Bleed

The leading the effort to save lives by teaching the civilian population to provide vital initial response to stop uncontrolled bleeding in emergency situations. This will be accomplished by comprehensive and sustainable bleeding control education and information program targeted to civilians that will inform, educate and empower   

In this class, you’ll review an analysis of data gathered from 48 mass shootings that have occurred since Columbine, to determine what can be learned from these tragedies, including whether a reduction in magazine capacity or the banning of any class of firearm would have changed the outcome. You'll also learn whether “gun-free” zones figure into the planning of these mass murderers; whether victim response at any mass shooting has made a difference; and whether “universal background checks” or other proposals by gun control advocates stand a chance of stemming the current trajectory of these shootings. This course summarizes this data with a comprehensive plan designed to eliminate the scourge of these shooters once and for all. 

 Would you know what to do if you were deep in the wilderness, and a hunting companion sustained a penetrating chest wound from an errant round? Could you prolong the life of a loved one long enough for the ambulance to arrive, if he or she had sustained a lacerated artery from a violent attacker armed with a knife? While most Americans are comfortable dealing with the cuts and scrapes of everyday life, and tens of thousands have learned the Heimlich maneuver and CPR, most individuals would be a bit less comfortable dealing with severe, life threatening injuries or illnesses when seconds count, and EMS personnel and the emergency room are minutes (or longer) away. In this training course, Tactical Emergency First Aid Fundamentals, you’ll learn to not only understand the proper way to assess a patient, you’ll also learn in great detail the proper way to deal with significant issues such as serious bleeding, chest injuries, a compromised airway, spinal injuries, broken bones, and more. While it might seem unrealistic to translate what professional EMTs and paramedics are able to do in an emergency versus the things that nonprofessionals would be capable of, but in life threatening medical and traumatic emergencies, it all boils down to the same thing — sustaining the life of the patient until he or she can be delivered to the emergency room. If you’re ready to become your family’s first responder in all emergency situations, this training cannot be missed. During this training, you’ll do more than simply sit in a classroom learning about these topics, your Pragmatic Tactical Solutions instructor will work you through a dozen real world scenarios using simulated patients and the actual products (or field expedients) that you’ll need to understand if you hope to save a life.