Once you have completed your classroom training, its time to hone your shooting skills by particpating in live fire training exercises. These sessions are scheduled in one hour increments with a NRA certified firearms instructor. This is Phase Three of your training and it is highly recommended that you undertake this training on a regular basis to maintain your skills.

 

 

You will learn shooting basics such as:  

- Left eye/right eye dominance

- Proper shooting stance –  Isosceles/Weaver/Modified Weaver

- Proper grip  

- Sight picture  

- Sight alignment  

- Trigger squeeze 

           – Breathing control              

After learning the shooting basics, you may move on to additional areas of training such as:

- Conducting a daily safety check on your handgun and ammunition

- Safe handling of semi-automatic handgun malfunctions

- Tactical magazine reloading

- “Ready position” vs. “imminent threat” 

- One hand/opposite hand shooting

- Other areas of training needed/desired as determined by the instructor/student

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Registration information for a Private Shooting Lesson

This is a live fire exercise conducted at a local shooting range with an NRA certified firearms instructor. The cost of this training is $40.00 per hour (additional range fees apply). One-on-one training sessions are available in one hour increments. For an initial live fire session, a two hour minimum is required.

Prerequisite – Completion of the Proactive Shooters’ Basic Firearms Safety class (or equivalent) or current Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit holder.

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Registration Process

1) Register for a lesson by completing this form – Register for private shooting lesson

2) A Proactive Shooters’ staff member will contact you to set up a time and date for your private shooting lesson.

3) Once your lesson has been scheduled, return back to this page and pay for the lesson using the appropriate payment button shown below. Since this is a private training session conducted by appointment, advance payment is required for this training. Once payment has been sent, simply meet the instructor at the appointment time and location.

 Payment selections:

Initial Private Shooting Lesson - 2 hours