KR Training July 2026 Newsletter

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FALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!

Everything we plan to offer between July and October has been added to the schedule and everything is open for registration.

UPCOMING CLASSES

In addition to the weekend group classes, weekday private lessons are available on request. Two hours, $150, any topic, any gun, any skill level.

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

TRAIN WITH TRACY

Tracy Thronburg will be offering two short courses on August 1: Double Action Revolver Skills and Off Body Carry. We have loaner wheelguns, loaner carry packs. More about off body carry in this blog article about the Vicki Farnam instructor class Tracy and I attended this winter.

Vicki Farnam FlexCCarry(tm) instructor class AAR

STAFF & ALUMNI NEWS

Karl will be on the road at the end of July teaching Force on Force Instructor, Tactical Scenarios and Advanced Handgun at the Crescent City facility north of New Orleans.

Karl will also be traveling to Beaumont in August to get certified as a 4H Shooting Coach, to assist with Lee County 4H Shooting practice sessions held at the A-Zone this fall.

Karl, OLJ3 and Ed Vinyard attended Dustin Salomon’s NURO class that we hosted at the A-Zone in June. We will be incorporated the NURO into some of our fall courses.

Karl, Dustin and Steve Vecchi will offer a special block of range instruction in Round Rock on the day before the Force Science Conference in September.

Several instructors from the KR Training team will be attending the Cougar Mountain Solutions (Erick Gelhaus) Pistol Mounted Optic instructor class coming up in Denton, TX later this month.

GREG ELLIFRITZ CLASSES

Greg is returning to the A-Zone on Sunday, September 20 to teach a one day Close Quarters Shooting live fire course. Uncle Zo wrote an in-depth review of Greg’s close quarter instructor class, and the article shows many of the techniques you will learn from Greg in this course.

Active Response Training Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting Instructor Development Course

RED DOT STUDY DATA COLLECTION – YOUR INPUT NEEDED

In September Penny and I will be presenting the results of our old “red dot vs irons vs lasers” study, where we measured performance of 120+ shooters at 5 and 10 yards using four different sighting systems. We are collecting additional data this summer on shooter performance at 10 and 20 yards, and allowing people to self-report their data. The instructions are here.

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/f4vmqrd77zi2onb/Red_Dot_Self_Reporting_Instructions_2026-06-09.pdf/file

We are accepting user-submitted data from now until August 15, 2026. All you need is a pistol with an optic and usable backup irons, four B-8 target centers, 20 rounds of ammo and a timer or stopwatch (you can use a phone timer) to give you 10 and 20 second par times. No holster is required. The data collection can be done at any indoor or outdoor range.

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

My band the Black Cat Choir was just voted “Best band in Fayette County” in the annual “Best Of Fayette” competition. On July 4th, we performed on a float in the annual Round Top Parade, and that night we performed on the steps of the La Grange courthouse as part of a patriotic celebration. This video is from the La Grange show – parts of “Tennessee Whiskey” and “La Grange”.

I’m also in a Chicago (and 70’s horn rock) tribute band. We played a sold out show at the Palace Theatre in downtown Bryan, Texas in June. Here’s our version of Average White Band’s “Pick Up the Pieces”.

Big shows coming up: I’ll be with the Round Top Rockers (a Black Cat Choir side band) as the headliner for the Thursday Sept 3 night at the Fayette County Fair, the full Black Cat Choir will perform at the Washington County Fair on Sept 12, and Changes will do a full show at Deep Roots in Plantersville October 3.

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