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Memphis Course Descriptions

Introduction to Handguns:
Getting Started, the Right Way

This is a three hour class for new handgun owners, or those thinking of buying a handgun. There is both classroom and firing range training, under the direct supervision of a certified instructor.

If you don't have a handgun, Rangemaster will supply one, or you may bring your own. We will supply the ammunition, targets, eye/ear protection, and everything you need, all included in the course fee of $49.00. The minimum age for this class is 14 years of age.

If, after this course, you decide to enroll in the Personal Protection Course (Handgun Carry Permit Course) you will receive a $20.00 credit toward the cost of that course.


Level I - Basic Personal Protection Course

The Basic Personal Protection Course may be the most useful and exciting class you’ll ever take. This introductory course provides hands-on training to ensure that our students become competent, law-abiding handgun-owners. The class is especially suited for men and women who are new shooters, but can be very informative to veteran shooters as well. Instruction includes:

  • Informed handgun selection
  • Basic handgun usage
  • Firearm concealment
  • Proper maintenance
  • Safe storage
  • Legal responsibilities
  • Awareness tools
  • Protective tactics

Upon completion of this course you’ll receive the Certificate of Handgun Training required by the Tennessee Department of Safety as part of your application for your handgun carry permit.

Includes certificate, workbook, ammunition, range session, testing, safety glasses, hearing protection, and use of one of our firearms, if necessary.

Course Fee: $99. Eight hours of training - conducted over two four-hour sessions on consecutive days and once a month in a single block.


Level II - Tactical Pistol Course

This course expands on the skills of the introductory class, including the following:

  • Mental conditioning for confrontation
  • Handling street confrontations
  • Presentation from a holster
  • Concealed carry techniques
  • Proper reloading techniques
  • Shooting with just one hand
  • Shooting in low light
  • Increasing your shooting speed
Course Fee: $150. Eight hours of training. Ammunition sold separately.

Students will need to bring an appropriate pistol, at least two magazines, 200 rounds of jacketed ammunition, a quality holster, suitable belt, and a concealment garment. A magazine carrier and pants with belt loops are highly recommended.


Level III - Advanced Tactics and Skills

Become faster and more adept at critical gun handling skills as you learn advanced tactics, including the following:

  • Gunfight analyses
  • Pivots and turns
  • Shooting on the move
  • Extended ranges
  • Shooting more quickly while still hitting
  • Keeping your cool under fire
  • Simulated gunfights

Course Fee: $165. Eight hours of training. Ammunition sold separately.

Students will need to bring an appropriate pistol, at least two magazines, 400 rounds of jacketed ammunition, a quality holster, suitable belt, and a concealment garment. A magazine carrier and pants with belt loops are highly recommended.


Level IV - Special Pistol

Learn tactical and dynamic movement, use of cover, and flashlight techniques. Skills learned here place you in the SWAT-level training category. This class has often been mentioned as the best of all of the classes offered by RangeMaster. It is a fantastic skill-building and mental conditional training class for the advanced shooter. Highly recommended!

Course Fee: $175. Eight hours of training. Ammunition sold separately.

Students will need to bring an appropriate pistol, at least two magazines, 400 rounds of jacketed ammunition, a quality holster, suitable belt, and a concealment garment. A magazine carrier and pants with belt loops are highly recommended.


Level V - Professional Pistol

Learn precision shooting at intermediate ranges, quickly correcting handgun malfunctions, advanced mental tactics for combat, handgun stopping power studies, alternate shooting positions, and protective reaction drills.

Course Fee: $195. Eight hours of training. Ammunition sold separately.

Students will need to bring an appropriate pistol, at least two magazines, 500 rounds of jacketed ammunition, a quality holster, suitable belt, and a concealment garment. A magazine carrier and pants with belt loops are highly recommended.


Defensive Shotgun

Many people keep a shotgun at home. Learn how to handle the most potent home defense weapon properly for self-defense. This course includes topics such as:
  • Shotgun Selection
  • Types & Operation
  • Loading Techniques
  • Modifications
  • Ammunition Selection
  • Shooting Techniques
Course Fee: $199 and includes ammunition.


Military Rifle Course

Familiarization course for modern military battle rifles and carbines. We supply rifles and ammo. Become familiar with the operation of and fire the:
  • AR-15
  • AK-47
  • M-1 Garand
  • M-1 Carbine
  • M-14
  • H&K 91
  • FN-FAL and others.
Course Fee: $150 and includes ammunition.


Low Light Skills

Classroom instruction and range practice firing in various dim light conditions, both with and without a flashlight.

You will need about 200 rounds of ammunition.
Should be a graduate of at least Level II prior to the course.

Course Fee: $69


Back-Up Gun (BUG) Course

Classroom and range instruction on the selection of a BUG, carry methods, and deployment. Advantages/disadvantages of the various types will be considered, and you will get an opportunity to fire a variety of common small back-up handguns. Guns and ammunition are furnished, or bring yours.

Course Fee: $79 and includes ammunition


Vehicle Defense (Anti-Carjacking) Course

Classroom instruction on recognizing threats and dealing with them while in a car, and shooting from simulated vehicles on the range.

You will need 150 rounds of ammunition.
Should be a graduate of at least Level II handgun prior to this course.

Course Fee: $79


Basic Personal Protection Instructor Certification Course

This three day course is conducted Friday through Sunday, and includes both intensive classroom training and a good bit of work on the range. You will learn to organize and teach classroom presentations, plus learn to effectively coach new shooters on the range. Students will fire a variety of handguns, and each student will pre-pare a brief classroom presentation. An extensive training manual and all ammunition are provided for this course.

Successful completion of this course enables a student to become a State Certified Handgun Instructor in Tennessee.

Cost is $449.00, which includes all ammunition and a huge manual.


OC Certification Course

Rangemaster conducts a one evening OC Class from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. In the classroom, you will learn the history and development of OC (pepper spray), its characteristics and how to select the right unit, and its deployment in self defense. There will also be some practice opportunity with inert spray to learn how to actually get the canister out and into action in a confrontation.

Pepper spray is an extremely useful and important defensive tool, but like all such tools training is required to learn how to use it properly. If you have family members who don't/can't carry a firearm, this class could be very valuable to them.

Cost is only $49.00 and students receive a Fox Labs certificate of training.


Rangemaster Tactical Conference/Polite Society Event

Each February, Rangemaster hosts an indoor tactical pistol match and a concurrent tactical conference. The match is conducted under very realistic conditions, in low light, on our indoor range. Various scenarios emulate real life defensive situations and realistic 3-D mannequin type targets add realism and stress. The targets fall only to vital hits plus non-threat targets, furniture, and props add to the training value of the competition. The next event will be Feb 24-25, 2007 at Rangemaster.

Throughout the match weekend, top shelf trainers from all over the United States conduct free training seminars, live demonstrations, and hands-on training sessions in our classroom and mat rooms. Attendees are free to attend any or all of these training events — an unsurpassed opportunity to obtain cutting edge training from some of the top names in the industry. Past conference seminar presenters include Gabe Suarez, Jeff Gonzales, Marty Hayes, Andy Stanford, Steve Silverman, Jim Higginbotham, James Yeager, Steve Moses, John Farnam, Skip Gochenour, Alan Brosnan, and others.

Entry fee is $149.00, which includes the match, all weekend seminars/classes, and a prize drawing at the awards ceremony.

Additional information on The Polite Society can be found at: thecurmudgeon.freeservers.com/ps


Warrior Talk Symposium III

The Warrior Talk Symposium in January 2005 and 2006 was a resounding success. We have decided to do it again, with WTS III on January 20-21, 2007.

This is an international gathering of like minded warriors from the US, Canada, Columbia, Great Britain, and elsewhere. There will be several concurrent seminars and classes going on, in our classroom, airgun ranges, and pistol range. Some of the best instructors in the industry will be putting on these classes, and attendees can participate in as many as eight separate courses of instruction. The theme this year is Integrated Skills, so the topics covered will include hand to hand, stick fighting, knife fighting, as well as pistol skills.

Registration fee is only $100.00, which covers all seminars and classes. Entry is limited to the first 50 to register.

Read Concealed Carry Magazine's Article on the first Warrior Talk Symposium:

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April 2005

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