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Basic Defensive Handgun 5JUL25
Basic Defensive Handgun will introduce to the student all the skills necessary for using a pistol or revolver safely and confidently. Students will learn safety procedures, ready positions, the 6 primary weapon manipulation drills, shooting stances, holster draw procedures, moving and shooting, and be able to draw and fire a handgun within 1.5 seconds, and to hit a man sized target out to 100 meters.
This class is part of the summer 2025 Provider Protector Small Group Semi-Private Class Series. We schedule classes based upon the student’s schedule, with groups of 3-6 students at a time. This program consists of eight 5-hour modules. These 8 modules are:
- Home Defense and Firearm Safety
- Basic Defensive Handgun
- Advanced Defensive Handgun
- Home Defense Shotgun
- Home Defense Carbine
- First Aid for the Provider and Protector
- Basic Defensive Close Quarter Battle
- High Intensity Gunfighting Drills
If you would like to participate in this training program, call Brian at 408-892-5460 or email info@monarchdefense.org.
Prerequisite:
Home Defense and Firearm Safety
Location:
Our facility is in the mountains 1 hour east of San Jose, 1 hour south from Livermore. Detail directions will be emailed to those who sign up.
Learn:
Holster procedures and safety
Trigger finger discipline
How and when to use manual safety or decocker
Human anatomy and shot placement
Manipulations:
- Loading procedure
- Unloading procedure
- Tactical reload procedure
- Emergency reload procedure
- Simple Malfunction procedure
- Complex Malfunction procedure
Ready Positions:
- Muzzle up (temple index)
- High compressed ready
- Low ready
- muzzle down (sul)
Conventional Shooting Stances:
- Isosceles
- Weaver
- Strong hand
Movement Techniques:
- Sidestep
- Turn-and-face
Standards for Precision and Accuracy:
- 16 minutes of angle with iron sights with standard ammunition from standing isosceles position, corresponding to 100m effective range on man sized target, and 17m effective range on vital organ (brain stem, heart) size target
Marksmanship skills:
- Posture
- Grip
- Natural point of aim
- Breathing
- Sight alignment
- Sight picture
- Front sight focus
- Trigger press
- Follow through
- Recoil management
How to conduct dry fire practice
High intensity confidence building exercises
Packing list:
Close toe shoes
Belt and holster
Layer garments so you can adjust for cold, wet, or warm weather
Hat
Pistol with 3+ magazines
250+ rounds of ammunition
Cleaning kit with oil, rag, toothbrush, barrel rod
Tools for mounting and adjusting your optics, holsters etc.
Individual first aid kit (IFAK)
Eye protection
Ear protection
1 gallon of water per day
Salty snacks and bag lunch
We have weapons, magazines, magazine carriers, pistols, holsters, night vision, armor, helmet etc. for you to borrow for free. All you need to do is communicate clearly in advance what you need to borrow, and clean what you used before turning it back in.
We can supply all the ammunition you need for $80 per person per day. We can take cash or Venmo to brian-wang-11.
