2025 UPDATE
We have scheduled most of the classes and matches we plan to offer through the end of the year. Weekday private lessons are available with Karl at the A-Zone, by appointment on any gun, at any level on any topic we offer.
It’s not too early to start planning your fall training. We have a packed schedule in September and October before our annual November/December deer season hiatus. Plan ahead and get registered for one or more of these upcoming courses!
SIG 320 POLICY CHANGE
Due to recent documents and policy changes from the FBI, Air Force and Gunsite Academy, out of abundance of caution KR Training is changing its policy regarding the use of the SIG 320 pistol in classes. Our new policy, effective 7/24/2025, is that the SIG 320 may only be used in KR Training classes or at the A-Zone Range for any event if carried in an outside-the-waistband duty or competition holster that puts the muzzle pointing at the ground, not any part of the user’s body, when the gun is holstered.
AUGUST – OCTOBER CLASSES
We have a lot of training opportunities for all levels planned for August-October. Most of the August courses are either early morning (8a-11a) or indoors in the classroom. Visit the KR Training website to get more information about these courses.
- ***Close Quarter Shooting 1 – July 26
- ***Basic Pistol & LTC completion – August 2
- ***Personal Tactics Skills (indoors) August 2 afternoon
- Grid Down Wound Care (indoors / Greg Ellifritz) – August 9
- The Explosive Threat (indoors / Greg Ellifritz) – August 10
- ***Top 10 Drills – August 16
- Knife Skills for CCW Instructor Development (indoors / Greg Ellifritz) – August 23-24
- ***Basic Pistol & LTC completion – September 6 am
- ***Defensive Pistol Skills 1 – September 6 pm
- Applied Defensive Handgun Skills (John Holschen’s NURO cognitive pistol class) – Sept 13-14
- ***Handgun Beyond Basics – Sept 20 am
- ***Handgun Skill Builder – Sept 20 pm
- Intermediate Rifle (AR/PCC) – Sept 21
- No Fail Pistol (Chuck Pressburg performance pistol course) – October 4-5
- Rangemaster Instructor Development – October 9-11
- Rangemaster Advanced Instructor Development – October 12-13
- ***School Safety / Active Shooter Range Session – October 18
- ***Basic Pistol (LTC Completion) – October 19 am
- Gunfighting in Crowds – October 19 pm
- Force on Force Instructor – October 24
- ***AT-2 Scenarios – October 25 am
- ***Tactical Scenarios – October 25 pm
- ***Defensive Pistol Skills 2 – October 26 afternoon
- ***Low Light Shooting 1 – October 26 evening
Courses marked with *** count toward our Defensive Pistol Skills Program coin. Reminder: any Texas LTC class counts for the coin program. Those that already have their LTC should start with Defensive Pistol Skills 1 or Handgun Beyond Basics, both coming up this fall!
John Holschen’s NURO class coming in September
I’ve been a student of John Holschen’s since the mid 1990’s (when he taught for Insights Training in Seattle, WA), and most recently in classes he’s offered at conferences and through his own training business. He’s bringing his NURO based pistol program to KR Training in September. His class is suitable for intermediate/advanced students that have had formal training or have safely completed matches where drawing from a holster under time stress was taught and tested.
More about John and the NURO here:
SUMMER FUN MATCHES CONTINUE THROUGH AUGUST 13
Due to popular demand we have added more Summer Fun Matches, July 30, August 6 and 13. These will all feature stages from the 1990’s Texas Paper and Iron Championship. $20 match fee, shoot 100+ rounds in 2-3 hours. Match starts at 6 pm but late arrivals are welcome. All levels are welcome: .22 pistols, .22 rifles, centerfire pistols and pistol caliber carbines. Events will include stand and shoot paper and steel stages, a plate rack stage and a shoothouse stage. Register here.
STAFF & ALUMNI NEWS
Karl accepted an invitation to join the NRA’s Education and Training Committee, along with multiple other private sector trainers including Tim Kelly (Apache Solutions), Brian Hill (Complete Combatant), and Mike Ox. They will bring some new perspective to the revitalized NRA, as it rebuilds under new leadership.
The Armed Citizen Legal Defense Network has been sold to CCW Safe. Karl was on the board of ACLDN and he will be continuing forward as a CCW Safe affiliated instructor. It will be the program we recommend to students for legal self defense coverage.
In early July, Karl and Uncle Zo attended the Greybeard Actual Pistol Skill Development course. Dave Reichek worked the course as Matt’s (Greybeard) assistant instructor. Zo also attended Gabe White’s Pistol Shooting Solutions course while working as the official KR Training host for the class, while Penny, Karl, Dave & Jacob Reichek were on hunting & photo safari in South Africa.
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. John Daub and Paul Martin have both stepped back from blogging, so at the moment Uncle Zo and I are the only KR Training staff actively writing. Some of my writing is being published on the NRA’s Shooting Illustrated website. Greg Ellfritz has been writing a lot recently, in addition to his Weekend Knowledge Dump, and I have included some of his recent articles here.
- Extreme Close Quarters Instructor Class AAR – Uncle Zo
- Let’s Meet For Tacos (Gun Safety Rules) – Uncle Zo
- Building an EDC Medical Kit You’ll Actually Carry – Uncle Zo
- Trijicon RMR HD Gear Review – Uncle Zo
- Greybeard Actual Pistol Skill Development – Uncle Zo
- Staccato XL 2000 Rounds Later – Uncle Zo
- Weapon Brandishing – Active Response Training (Greg Ellifritz)
- Pandemics, Meteors and Whatever – Paul T Martin
- Inflammatory Prudence – Paul T Martin
- LA Court Overturns Kayla Giles Conviction – Paul T Martin
- Evolution of Law Enforcement Revolver Training – Claude Werner
- Austin: more money for homeless graft, less money for cops – Battleswarm
- Commemorative Guns (Anniversaries) – Whipped Cream Difficulties
Greg Ellifritz was a guest on the “That Weems Guy” podcast recently.
KR Training gets a nice mention in this video from Gideon Optics
Ed Monk’s new book on the Active Shooter problem is now available. I just got my copy and will be reviewing it on this blog soon. You can get your copy and read more about it here.
MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE MONTH
My quartet recently performed at the Magnolia Society venue in Columbus, Texas. A fan sitting right up front recorded this clip of us doing part of “Movin on Up (Jefferson’s Theme)”.
and to promote the special Jerry Garcia “Days Between” solo show I’ll be playing at Mac’s Daqs in La Grange August 8th, here’s my piano/vocal version of “Truckin”. For the Days Between show I’ll be playing songs from the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, and Dead-adjacent artists like Dylan, The Band, Bruce Hornsby, and Phish.
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We look forward to training you!
Karl, Penny and the KR Training team
