Sharpen Your Edge – Training Tracks

🔐 First Steps - Confidence through Competence

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✅ Firearms Safety, Hidden Hazards & Real-World Lessons

Duration: 2 hours

Format: Interactive lecture with hands-on training, images, and real-world video analysis

This essential class helps you build safer habits and avoid common—and sometimes tragic—mistakes. Whether you’re new to firearms or revisiting the fundamentals, you’ll sharpen your awareness and reinforce life-saving safety principles.

Part 1: Foundational Safety Practices

Master the universal rules of firearm safety through hands-on work with inert training pistols. You’ll learn:

• How ignorance, carelessness, and complacency lead to accidents

• The difference between unintentional, negligent and accidental discharges

• Why relying on mechanical safeties isn’t enough

Part 2: Hidden Hazards & Real-World Lessons

We go beyond the basics to explore unexpected risks that catch many shooters off guard. Using real incident footage, we break down:

• Common causes of unintentional discharges—and how to avoid them

• Safe holstering practices and dangerous holster designs

• Hot brass burns, bad ammo, mechanical failures, and more

✅ Pistol Operations & Fundamentals of Performance

Duration: 2 Hours

Prerequisite: Firearms Safety, Hidden Hazards & Real-World Lessons

Format: Hands-on instruction with live demonstrations and guided practice

Build confidence by understanding how common striker-fired pistols work—and how to run them safely and effectively. This class is ideal for new shooters or anyone looking to strengthen their foundational skills.

What You’ll Learn:

• Pistol components, external controls, and recoil-driven operation

• How to safely load, unload, and verify the condition of a handgun

• Key differences in pistol action types and how they affect use

• The fundamentals of handgun performance (accuracy, precision and speed):

• Stance

• Grip

• Sight alignment and picture

• Trigger control

• The full shooting cycle

✅ Get to Know Your Gun

Duration: 2 Hours

Format: Discussion and Hands-on

A hands-on ‘crash course’ session covering safety, firearm parts, loading/unloading, basic maintenance, and foundational marksmanship—ideal for new firearm owners who want a single, stand-alone starter session.