2025 FALL UPDATE
We had an extremely busy September and October, with full classes, guest instructors and special events. Due to our agreement with our range neighbors to be quiet during deer season, we are only offering a few weekend classes in November and December. Weekday private lessons are available with Karl at the A-Zone, by appointment, on any gun, at any level, on any topic we offer.
We are currently planning our January-May class dates for 2026. If there’s a specific course you want, let us know so we can add it to the schedule. Already confirmed for 2026: USPSA Grandmasters Tim Herron and AJ Zito for an instructor development course and weekend performance pistol course in February. We will also be hosting Aqil Qadir and John Hearne of Rangemaster in 2026, dates to be announced soon.
UPCOMING CLASSES
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER
- Citizen Communication (Preparedness w/ Martin and Beck) – Nov 8
- Trauma Medicine for Prepared Citizens (Weger, MD) – Nov 9 am
- Medical Preparedness for Citizens (Weger, MD) – Nov 9 pm
- *** Home Defense Tactics and Shooting Skills – Dec 6 10a-2p
Courses marked with *** count toward our Defensive Pistol Skills Program coin. Reminder: any Texas LTC class counts for the coin program.
Preparedness Courses
In collaboration with Paul Martin we are offering three preparedness courses in November.
Citizen Communications is a one day course discussing ham radios and other communication devices useful for getting information and staying in contact with family, friends and neighbors during a grid-down or internet-down situation.
Dr. Ben Weger will be presenting two medical courses: Trauma Medicine for Prepared Citizens and Medical Preparedness for Citizens. These hands on courses start where “Stop the Bleed” ends, teaching skills you might need to keep yourself or another person alive in a situation where medical response is limited and/or slow to arrive. No prior medical training is required to attend these courses. They are suitable for students of all ages and abilities.
HOME DEFENSE TACTICS AND SHOOTING SKILLS
On Saturday, Dec 6 I will offer a four hour Home Defense Tactics and Shooting Skills course, suitable for anyone that has Basic Pistol level handgun skills. The class does NOT require holster. It focuses on skills relevant to home defense: retrieving a pistol from a box or drawer, moving to cover, and engaging threats at home-defense distances. I documented several of the drills from that course in this recent blog post:
IN MEMORIAM
In September, John Holschen (West Coast Armory North) was scheduled to teach class at the A-Zone, and I was going to get trained in his curriculum during that class. John had been using the NURO devices developed by Dustin Solomon in his innovative pistol course. We were one of the first to host it when he took it on the road last year. I got a phone call on a Thursday morning telling me that John had passed away unexpectedly. He was supposed to get on a plane that next day to travel to Texas. I had been training with John for more than 30 years and considered him one of the true greats of the training world.
Defenders Live reposted this interview with John after his passing.
A few weeks later, Marty Hayes, founder of the Firearms Academy of Seattle (FAS) and the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network, passed away on the beautiful land in Idaho where he was building a retirement home on for himself and his wife, Gila. Marty & Gila built their own permanent training facility and ran a regional training business offering instruction to a wide variety of students. The success of FAS was a huge influence on Penny and I as we followed a similar path in Central Texas. I took classes from Marty, including the Massad Ayoob Group Deadly Force Instructor he and Massad Ayoob co-taught for KR Training, and he invited me to FAS to train all of his instructors (and students) in my Force on Force scenario program.
Kat Stevens wrote an in-depth memorial to Marty here.
https://www.shootingwire.com/features/06a9dd12-e1d8-46e2-b192-4f2c4918993c
This fall I will write proper memorials to both of them, who deserve more than a paragraph to recognize their contributions and achievements.
STAFF & ALUMNI NEWS
Karl and Alonso Robles attended Chuck Pressburg’s “No Fail” pistol class, held at the A-Zone in early October. Ty Clark attended and passed the Rangemaster Basic and Advanced Instructor 5 day course, also held at the A-Zone in October.
Karl also returned to TEEX as an adjunct instructor teaching DHS certified Critical Infrastructure Protection courses. In 2026 he will be going on the road for TEEX one week a month.
Karl was also a guest on the “That Weems Guy” podcast answering listener questions.
Paul Martin was a presenter at the Texas Bar Association’s annual continuing education program on firearms law, speaking on self defense legal services. His material from that conference can be accessed here.
Eric “Clark” Victorin attended and passed Gunsite 350, which includes their low light/night skills, and a shotgun class taught by Symtac. Doug Greig will be participating in the Tactical Games Skirmish in Austin in December. Zack Greig started a new position as a full time law enforcement instructor at TEEX.
Karl taught the pistol portion of the “Youth Shooting Sports and Hunter Safety Field Day” for high school students from Lee and Washington Counties at Nails Creek Park at an event coordinated by Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Lee County Wildlife Association.
Karl also was a guest on a episode of “The Way is in Training” podcast with Matt Little. That episode will be shared in December.
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Marksmanship Unit, led by Kevin Jimmerson and assistant coach Dave Reichek, won the 1st annual USPSA collegiate national championship. KR Training is a proud supporter of the CCMU, providing them range facilities and coaching since their inception. KR Training’s Dave Reichek is the current assistant coach of the team and traveled with them to the match, advising them on stage strategy and match mindset during the event.
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.
- Home Defense Shooting Drills (Notes from KR)
- Five Parking Lot Precautions (Active Response Training)
- Strippers and Wadcutters – Speed Loading Revolvers (Active Response Training)
- Increasing Lethality and Marksmanship Success (FunShoot Blog)
- SCOTUS has been Wrong on 2A (Mark Overstreet)
- Wednesday Wisdom (Sensible Self Defense)
- New DPS target (Sensible Self Defense)
- Using the Thumb Safety, Safely (Uncle Zo)
- Keep Your Guard Up (Uncle Zo)
- Modlight Handheld Light (Uncle Zo)
- Glock 43 (Uncle Zo)
- Down, Distance and Field Position (Paul Martin)
- Crisis and Chaos Beget Clarity (Paul Martin)
- On PMLs, Red Bull and Football – Preparedness (Paul Martin)
Compilation video from the history of IPSC World Shoots
MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE MONTH
In October, Midnight Express put on their “Changes” costume as a Chicago tribute band and performed a 2 hour sold out show at the Deep Roots winery near Conroe, Texas. Earlier in 2025 we played to a packed house at the Palace Theater in Bryan, Texas. In honor of Halloween, here’s our cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitious”.
Every fall I play with the weekday house band at Santa’s Wonderland, the largest Christmas theme park in Texas that attracts over 300K visitors each holiday season. It’s south of College Station and features more than 4.5M lights, ice skating, sledding, multiple stages of live music, local food, beer and wine. Our band does “Santa-tized” versions of rock and country songs, like our version of Hank Williams Jr’s “Born to Boogie”.
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We look forward to training you!
Karl, Penny and the KR Training team
