Firearms training for beginners that builds a solid foundation based on measurable standards.
Explore Indoor & Outdoor Training
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Try Before You Buy
$135
Private indoor 1-hour class. You’ll shoot a variety of handguns, including 9mm compact and subcompact semi-automatic pistols with iron sights and optics, .22 caliber pistol and a .38 caliber revolver. No gun, gear or ammo needed. You’ll be introduced to safe gun handling and shooting fundamentals. You’ll gain experience, breaking down myths and dispelling misconceptions for a realistic view of shooting. -
The Basics
$185
Private indoor 2-hour introduction to shooting. You’ll learn fundamental principles and develop essential skills in gun handling and marksmanship. You’ll be hands-on with the gun, working exercises to develop grip, aiming, trigger control and recoil management so you can achieve accurate hits at close distances. You’ll work at a deliberate pace while building confidence and competence. -
Private Coaching
$100
Private indoor 1-hour coaching for students who possess a basic level of gun handling and shooting experience and want to build capability. You work at the speed you need. Sessions are tailored to your current skill level, strengths and weaknesses. Working 1:1 you get 100% personalized attention, immediately identify and correct mistakes in real time, maximizing retention and accelerating development.
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Try Before You Buy Plus
$185
Private outdoor 2-hour experiential class. You’ll shoot a variety of handguns, including 9mm compact and subcompact semi-automatic pistols with iron sights and optics, .22 caliber pistol and a .38 caliber revolver. No gun, gear or ammo needed. Working outdoors, you’ll get enhanced exposure to self-defense shooting, focused on safe gun handling and pistol shooting fundamentals. You’ll come away with a clear, no-nonsense breakdown of the training, skill mastery and financial realities of gun ownership. -
Enhanced Basics
$250
Private outdoor 3-hour introduction to pistol shooting. Working in an outdoor environment, you’ll be introduced to practical exercises that have defensive utility. You’ll learn fundamental principles and develop essential skills in gun handling and marksmanship, including simple target transitions and movement. You’ll be hands-on with the gun immediately, maximizing your time and accelerating your development. Working from a timer you’ll be exposed to shooting under pressure and objective measures of performance. -
Practical Marksmanship
$250
Private 3-hour outdoor pistol training for novice shooters with some gun handling and basic shooting experience. Develop your ability to hit your target accurately, consistently and with urgency in more realistic outdoor conditions. You’ll work proven exercises at close to intermediate distances to hone grip, vision, draw stroke, trigger press, recoil management, target transitions and movement while working from a timer to introduce realistic pressure and gain objective measurements of performance.
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You’ll get lots of trigger time running effective, proven drills, applying principle-based techniques and the most current concepts in pistol shooting. You’ll be introduced to pistol performance standards based on established benchmarks that will be challenging, with a focus on building a solid foundation in marksmanship and gun handling for defensive and practical utility.
Photo by Rachel Maloney, 2025, courtesy of OnSight Firearms Training
“If your foundation isn’t solid, everything built on top of it will crumble.”
— Gino Giliotti