Defensive Pistol Skills 3

This course provides additional instruction in the fundamentals of defensive handgunning similar to first-level courses taught at the major shooting academies.

Defensive Pistol Skills 3

This course provides additional instruction in the fundamentals of defensive handgunning similar to first-level courses taught at the major shooting academies.

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Classroom Time

N/A

Range Time

4 Hours

Rounds:

300

Good For:

Experienced Shooters

 Course Description

This course, when combined with the Texas CHL course, Low Light Shooting (AT-1A), Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and Defensive Pistol Skills 2, provides the student with training equivalent to the 14-hour version of the NRA’s Personal Protection Outside the Home course. For 2020 the class has been updated to include some modules of the NRA’s CCW course, and an NRA CCW module-specific certificate will be issued to those that attend and pass the CCW qualification course of fire.

This course is part of the core curriculum of the 40 hour Defensive Pistol Skills Program.

Required Equipment:

  • Centerfire Handgun
  • Belt Holster,
  • 2 spare magazines/Speedloaders,
  • Magazine/Speedloader Carriers,
  • Eye and Ear protection,
  • Baseball cap (to deflect spent brass and keep the sun out of your eyes),
  • 300 (or more) rounds of ammunition.
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Defensive Shooting

One-on-One Coaching

Student Focused

Topics

  • Review of gun safety and skills learned in Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and 2,
  • Drawing from concealment while moving to cover,
  • Engaging multiple targets,
  • Shooting from awkward positions,
  • Other defensive handgunning skills.

Prerequisites

Completion of Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and 2, day 1 of the NRA Personal Protection Outside the Home course, or equivalent required. Defensive Pistol Skills 2 includes a graduation test that students must pass in order to be eligible to take DPS 3.

Additional Information

This course is intended to provide graduates of the Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and 2 courses a way to complete the additional training necessary to have shot drills similar to all live fire portions of the NRA’s Personal Protection Outside the Home course. This course will be taught by instructors certified to teach the NRA PPOTH course, but because the PPOTH lesson plan requires us to repeat 4 hours of lecture content identical to the Texas CHL course, and some drills in PPOTH are run a little differently than the way KR Training has been doing them for 20 years, completion of Texas CHL, Low Light Shooting and the DPS 1-2-3 series does not make students eligible for an NRA PPOTH course completion certificate, and this sequence is not an NRA-certified course.

2020 update: the new NRA CCW course is broken up into modules and we have incorporated some of those modules into the DPS-3 course.

Follow Through

Reacquiring sight picture after recoil while keeping your gun on target

Safe Gun Handling

Constant attention to and awareness of trigger finger and muzzle direction.

Sight Alignment/Picture

Sight picture quality, target distance/size, and available time considerations.

From Ready to First Shot

Bringing the gun from ready to the target and firing accurate shots with CHL-test time limits