Defensive Pistol Skills 3

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

DPS 3 includes a graded shooting test that evaluates students' ability to perform the skills taught in the three Defensive Pistol Skills courses.

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 and other defensive handgunning skills.

Length: five hours

For prices and upcoming course dates, check the schedule page.

Prerequisites: Completion of Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and 2 or equivalent required. Defensive Pistol Skills 2 includes a graduation test that students must pass in order to be eligible to take DPS 3.

Required Equipment: A centerfire handgun, belt holster, a minimum of 2 spare magazines or speedloaders, magazine/speedloader carriers, eye and ear protection, a baseball cap (to deflect spent brass and keep the sun out of your eyes) and a minimum of 300 rounds of ammunition.

Optional Equipment: See the general policies page for suggestions on food, drink, clothing, etc.

Taught by: Karl Rehn

Facility: A-Zone Range

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.

This course will also include a graduation test that shooters must pass with a minimum score to receive a course completion certificate.