KR Training December 2025 Newsletter

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2025 END OF YEAR UPDATE

2025 was another busy year for KR Training, with 42 weeks of classes, matches and special events. Guest instructors included Chuck Haggard, Chuck Baxter, Massad Ayoob, Gabe White, Matt Little, Greg Ellifritz, Chuck Pressburg, Tom Givens, Ben Weger and James Beck. The A-Zone became the home range for Lee County 4-H Shooting Sports. KR Training instructors were also on the road, presenting at conferences, taking classes from other trainers, and coaching the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Marksmanship Team to a national championship.

2026 OVERVIEW

January-April courses are now online and open for registration. Guest instructors confirmed for 2026 include Eric Wise (Cornerstone Performance), Tim Herron & AJ Zito, Aqil Qadir & Tiffany Johnson (Citizens Safety Academy & Rangemaster), NURO inventor Dustin Solomon, and John Hearne. They will be offering a wide variety of courses, from high level competition skills, to instructor development, to the classic Rangemaster Combative Pistol course, and the most innovative cognitive decision making live fire drills. Expect 1-2 more guest instructor courses to be added to our summer/fall schedule.

KR Training staff will be on the road several times in 2026, teaching in New Orleans, teaching at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference, attending training at other facilities, and at the NRA’s Annual Meeting in Houston in April.

Courses marked with *** count toward our Defensive Pistol Skills Program coin.

UPCOMING CLASSES

JANUARY

Family Training Day January 10

If Santa brings you a new pistol for Christmas, or your New Year’s resolution is to “get some quality pistol practice”, “learn pistol basics”, “get my carry permit” or “get medical training”, our classes on January 10 can help you achieve that goal. For beginners, we will offer the 3 hour Basic Pistol & License To Carry (LTC) Completion course. It’s 2 hours of indoor training on pistol basics, with an hour of live fire shooting the NRA Basic Pistol drills and the Texas LTC shooting test. Take our online LTC course before or after the class and that completes the mandatory training for your carry permit!

While the beginners are attending Basic Pistol, we will be running our popular Top 10 Drills class on the range. It’s a perfect refresher and tune up for experienced shooters, whether you haven’t been to the range since your last class with us or you shoot every week.

Both shooting classes will start at 10 am (instead of our usual 9 am) and finish at 1 pm. We will offer the 2 hour Stop the Bleed class (indoors) from 2-4 p.

We paired these courses together to encourage families or friends to come out together, take whichever shooting course is appropriate, and stay for the short medical class afterward.

NEWSLETTER SPECIAL: two or more people that come as a group, attend the shooting classes, stay for Stop the Bleed and tell me the secret word “FAMILYTIME” will get the cost of the Stop the Bleed course refunded to you in cash.

Cornerstone Performance Rifle Classes January 17

Austin-area trainer Eric Wise will be offering two half day rifle classes back to back on January 17th. Basic Rifle is in intro course for those with new AR-15 rifles or new to rifle shooting. It will include review of fundamentals and rifle zeroing. The afternoon class will be the short range material from his City Block Rifle course, working on 0-50 yard shots relevant to defensive use of the carbine.

FEBRUARY

Tim Herron and A.J. Zito Classes Feb 18-22

USPSA Grand Master shooters Tim Herron and A.J. Zito will be visiting KR Training in February. They will offer a 3-day instructor development course from Wed-Fri, and a 2-day performance pistol course on Saturday and Sunday. These courses are intended for more experienced shooters, particularly those shooting USPSA, Steel Challenge and IDPA pistol matches.

MARCH

MARCH IS DEFENSIVE PISTOL SKILLS PROGRAM MONTH

In March we will offer all of the core Defensive Pistol Skills Program courses along with some rifle and red dot pistol courses. Come enjoy the spring weather and make progress toward earning your challenge coin! We will offer all the core courses multiple times in 2026.

STAFF & ALUMNI NEWS

Tracy Thronburg and Dave Reichek trained with Citizen Defender (John Murphy) in his recent class at the Dallas Pistol Club. Doug Greig competed in the Tactical Games Skirmish in Austin. Paul Martin, in association with KR Training, hosted communication and medical preparedness classes at the A-Zone in November.

During his Gunsite 350 class, Eric Victorin earned a Gunsite coin for a perfect score shooting long range targets on the move in low light with his pistol.

KR Training shooting team member Roy Stedman won Top Senior at the recent 2025 Colt Texas Single Stack Championship, in addition to winning 1st Senior in Single Stack at the USPSA Nationals earlier this year.

DISCOUNT CODES

I have collected up all the discount codes we have set up with vendors we recommend. Alumni of KR Training classes will find them in the monthly e-news email. You’ll have to open the email and scroll to the bottom to find them. It’s a reward for actually opening and reading the email!

REFRESHER DEALS

Re-take any class you’ve taken before for half price! Contact me to get the alumni discount code. Firearms skills deteriorate without practice. Most ranges don’t allow drawing from a holster, shooting quickly, moving or shooting from cover. If you don’t practice the skills you learned in class, they won’t be there when you need them.

BLOG O RAMA

All the articles you missed if you don’t follow the KR Training Facebook page and Instagram feed.

MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE MONTH

In November I played a lot of private parties with the Black Cat Choir. We recorded high resolution video and multi-track audio. Here’s our version of the Atlanta Rhythm Section’s “So Into You”. Lead guitarist John Holmes and I do some great lick trading doing the outro.

Every fall I play with the weekday house band at Santa’s Wonderland, the largest Christmas theme park in the world. Santa’s will be open through January 3rd this year. One night a few years ago our lead singer (Doc Tiktock) had a night off, and drummer Michael Holleman and I filled in on vocals. Here’s a fan-shot clip of us doing “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy”.

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We look forward to training you!
Karl, Penny and the KR Training team

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