2024 UPDATE
Lots of classes in January, February and March have already sold out. We still have some weekends open in March-May, so more classes will be added to the calendar. Due to winter weather we rescheduled our Home Defense Shooting Skills (outdoor, live fire) and Personal Tactics Skills (indoor) to Sunday, January 28th. Plenty of slots open in both of those basic level courses. Both are perfect for family members that aren’t “gun people” but want to learn basics of home and personal defense.
Waiting for a particular class? Let us know and we’ll try to find a date for it in the spring when shooting weather is perfect!
PRIVATE LESSONS
I am available for private weekday training. Doug Greig is also available for private weekday and some weekend sessions. Contact us for details.
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.
2024 CLASSES Upcoming Texas classes with space available:
JANUARY
- **Home Defense Shooting Skills – Jan 28, 9a-noon (Rehn)
- **Personal Tactics Skills – Jan 28, 1p-5p (Daub)
FEBRUARY
- **Defensive Pistol Skills 1 – Feb 10 9a-1p (staff)
- **Pistol Skill Builder – Feb 10 2p-4p (staff)
- Close Quarters Pistol Level 2 – Feb 18 (Ellifritz)
- **Red Dot Pistol Level 1 – Feb 24 9a-1p (Greig/Reichek)
- Intermediate Rifle Skills – Feb 25, 9a-3p (Greig)
MARCH
- **Defensive Pistol Skills 2 – March 16, 1p-5p (Rehn)
- **Low Light Shooting 1 – March 16, 6p-9p (Rehn)
- **AT-2 FOF Scenarios – March 17, 1p-5p (Rehn)
APRIL AND BEYOND
- **School and Church Security Range Session – April 28 2p-6p (Rehn)
- Dynamic First Aid – May 11 (Causey)
- Rangemaster Instructor – May 24-26 (Givens)
- Historical Handgun – May 27 (Givens/Rehn)
- Massad Ayoob Group MAG 20 Range – August 8-9 (Thronburg)
- Massad Ayoob Group MAG 20 Lecture – August 10-11 (Ayoob)
Courses marked with *** are classes that count toward the Defensive Pistol Skills Program challenge coin.
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Home Defense Shooting Skills / Personal Tactics Skills – Jan 28
On Jan 28 we are offering a pair of courses that are the essentials for the armed citizen that has a firearm at home or in their vehicle for personal defense. Home Defense Shooting Skills is a 3 hour short course (100 rounds pistol, 20 rounds optional long gun) teaching skills for retrieving a gun from a lockbox or table, moving to cover and getting effective hits at home defense distances. It will include one run in the shoot house.
Personal Tactics Skills teaches situational decision making, pepper spray and tactics for specific common personal defense situations. There is more to successful defense than “have a gun”. This indoor lecture course includes interactive scenarios with inert pepper sprays and non-firing replica guns. The Personal Tactics Skills class is a required class for those wanting to earn their KR Training Defensive Pistol Skills Program challenge coin. Students often ignore this valuable course until it’s the last one they need to finish the program: it’s actually designed to be one of the first courses students should take, since good decision making under stress may prevent the need to use a firearm or give the student an important tactical advantage should use of force or deadly force be required.
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 actually open the email and scroll to the bottom to find them. It’s a reward for actually opening and reading the email!
BLOG O RAMA
All the articles you missed if you don’t follow the KR Training Facebook page and Instagram feed.
- Sloppy Gun “Carrying” Is a Real Problem (Notes from KR)
- Annual Maintenance Tasks (Notes from KR)
- 1960 Hipshooting Target Design (Notes from KR)
- The Advantages of Shotgun Mounted Optics are Clear as Mud (Uncle Zo)
- Dry Fire Part 1 Getting Started (Uncle Zo)
- Automaticity Isn’t Always Rainbows and Sunshine (Uncle Zo)
- A Massive From the Mayo Clinic (Paul Martin)
- Expedient Power Station You Can Build Today (Paul Martin)
- We Are On the Clock (Paul Martin)
- Charles Cotton Must Never Be Allowed to Head the NRA (Ammoland)
- San Antonio Area LEOs Urge Proper Gun Storage (Bearing Arms)
SONG OF THE MONTH
From the late 1990’s to the mid 2000’s I was a regular guest with Austin’s Java Jazz, often when they were the house band for the Sunday jazz brunch at the Nutty Brown Cafe. Sax player and songwriter Jessie Bradley Jr., passed away January 11, 2024 and I’ve posted multiple videos to my youtube channel of live and studio performances featuring Jessie. The video below is for a studio recording Jessie and I did of his original instrumental jazz song, “I Wrote It About You”.
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We look forward to training you!
Karl, Penny and the KR Training team
