Basic Course: Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun: These are NRA approved multi-student courses designed to impart safe firearm handling skills and attitudes in addition to teaching basic marksmanship skills on the firing range. These courses will impart the minimum necessary standards of firearms handling skills and attitudes to form a foundation for further, safe development of your shooting skill and shooting sports enjoyment. These courses are ideal for prospective firearms purchasers but also serve as a comprehensive refresher for current firearms owners.
Home Firearm Safety Course: The Home Firearm Safety course is structured to provide the firearm owner with the knowledge, attitudes and skills to properly and safely handle and store firearms in the home. While this is an affordable, must attend course for new firearms owners, this course is also particularly valuable for those spouses who wish to acquire the attitudes and skills necessary to safely handle their spouses firearms should that become necessary. Households with children should consider this course an absolute necessity.
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Atlanta Firearms Training Courses
Basic Defensive Pistol: The NRA Basic Pistol course conveys the minimum skills to safely handle and shoot your pistol, however it does not teach advanced concepts of marksmanship, shooting on the move, shooting from cover, shooting in a dark home, reloading while moving, and other advanced pistol handling skills. For new concealed carry permit holders this course gives you the foundation to safely and effectively carry your pistol. This course by AFT will establish basic proficiency in these skills that can be practiced and honed by the student on their own time.
Introduction to the AR-15: This course is oriented to the new AR-15 owner. This course familiarizes the owner with the history of the AR-15, its component parts, maintenance and cleaning, and the accessories typically available for the rifle. The live fire portion of this course includes rifle zero procedures using military protocol, basic marksmanship skills, shooting from various positions, rapid follow-up shooting, target transitions, Close Quarters Combat Drills, rapid magazine changes, and dealing with malfunctions. This is a one day course divided up between classroom time and range time. You do not have to own an AR15 to attend this course.
M4 Advanced Tactical Carbine Block I: This advanced tactical carbine course is taught by former Special Operations Unit member Chris Avery, who spent two tours in Iraq, first as a Marine Force Recon Sniper during Desert Storm, and then with an Army Special Operations Unit during his 2006 rotation. This course builds on the Intro to the A15 course and conveys advanced tactical carbine skills geared toward self-defense and home defense issues taught by an instructor with extensive Close Quarter Combat experience. This course is an excellent applications course for the home owner looking to use the AR-15 as their primary home defense weapon and will also be of value to Police, SWAT team, and military personnel looking for a quality tune up in their carbine skills.
Long Range Precision Rifle: This is another course taught by our former Marine sniper and tactics instructor Chris Avery. This course conveys the foundational knowledge and skill for the rifleman to develop consistent, accurate long range marksmanship skills. This is an essential course for varmit, medium, and big-game hunters and serves as an effective foundational course for those seeking police or military sniper certification. Academics cover types of long range precision rifles, cartridges of suitable calibers and their applications, ballistics for long range shooting, range estimation using various means including the mil-dot system, range and wind correction, rifle zeroing, marksmanship techniques, record-keeping and cartridge reloading for accuracy. The live fire portion covers rifle zeroing and live fire shooting out to 700 yds.
Introduction to IDPA Competition: The International Defensive Pistol Association sponsors local, state, and national matches to promote practical defensive pistol skils. Each match consists of stages or courses of fire built around a scenario requiring the use of deadly force to defend yourself. The shot timer chimes and you are off, drawing your weapon from underneath your jacket or t-shirt and engaging the various threats as fast and as accurately as you can. Advanced practical pistol marksmanship skills are required to compete effectively and safely. This one day clinic overviews IDPA rules and regulations, and then proceeds to live fire exercises overviewing the practical pistol skills typically employed in IDPA competitions. IDPA requires each competitor to shoot a "Classifier Course" to categorize their skills so they can compete with other competitors at their skill level, thus the day ends with each student shooting the Classifier Course to qualify them to compete in future IDPA matches. This class is taught by IDPA Safety Officers who compete at the Expert level. This course can also be taught in a private instruction format.
Pistol Shooter Improvement Curriculum: Tired of shooting at an indoor range at bullseye targets? Want to learn or improve your practical and self-defense shooting skills? Our shooter improvement course is a high round count curriculum which reviews basic pistol marksmanship skills and rapidly advances to tactical pistol skills. The practical drills include drawing and shooting from the holster, target transition skills, rapid and accurate follow-on shooting, shooting from various positions, rapid magazine changes, dealing with malfunctions, shooting from cover, and weak hand and strong hand shooting but is not limited to these exercises. The course culminates in several practical shooting courses of fire. This course can be tailored to self defense needs or to practical shooting competition skill sets. This course is periodically offered in a class format but can be taken as private instruction.
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