Course Description

This is a class designed to turn comfortable gun owners into competent shooters. Defensive Handgun 1 is designed to bridge the gap between “intro to guns” classes and “advanced shooter” classes with progressive concepts and drills connecting the dots from the necessary fundamentals of trigger control, sight picture, grip, and stance — all the way to recoil management, target transitions, and body movement. Too many ranges and instructors offer intro and beginning courses that serve the brand new gun owner or the seasoned shooter who wants to progress, yet they ignore many people in the middle who don’t know where to pick up where they last left off. Well, this is the class for you!

This is an intermediate level course for anybody who has taken a basic handgun class and is looking for the “next step” in their journey as a pistol shooter.

Course Objective: To polish the rough edges on a familiar gun owner’s pistol fundamentals and help them establish a solid baseline for a lifetime of progressing as a competent pistol shooter. 

The classroom portion of the course will cover the following:

-Firearms safety overview
-Body mechanics deep dive
-Trigger press deep dive
-Sight picture deep dive
-Shooting stance deep dive
-Intro to shooting and movement
-Pre-range safety briefing
-Q&A

The range portion of the course will cover the following:

-Range safety briefing
-1-hole drill variations and deep dive
-Intro to follow-up shots
-Progressive target acquisition and vision training
-Target transition warmup
-Variations on target transitions
-Timed target transitions
-Intro to drawing from a holster
-Q&A

Instructor: Sean Burrows
Time Commitment: 2 4-hour days, for a total of 8 hours
Price: $150
Setting: Classroom and range
Maximum Number of Students: 12

For additional information, please call 801-607-5363.

Required Gear

-Semi-automatic pistol
-Minimum 3 pistol magazines
-Ammunition
-OWB holster
-Ear protection
-Eye protection
-Suitable range attire
-1 pistol magazine pouch

Prerequisites

All participants must complete one of the courses listed below before taking this class or obtain prior instructor approval.

-Basic Pistol NRA Course
-Concealed Carry Ready Course
-Women’s Intro To Firearms

After taking this course, participants will be prepared to take the following courses:

-Defensive Handgun 2

Location

Ready Gunner Store
1066 S. State St
Orem, UT 84097
801-607-5363

Disclaimers

Please bring your confirmation email to the training as proof of purchase.

The instructors do their best to attend the trainings assigned to them, however accidents and illness require that we reserve the right to substitute the instructors as needed.

If you need to reschedule, and it is 48 hours prior to the start time of the training, you may do so one time free of charge. Each additional time you reschedule (48 hours prior to the training), you will be charged a $25 fee.

If you reschedule within 48 hours of the start time of the training, you will be charged a $25 fee.

No refunds will be issued on cancellations within 48 hours of the start time of the training.

No refund will be issued if you fail to attend the training. 

Please email tom@readygunner.com for any schedule changes or call 801-607-5363.

Instructor Bio

Sean Burrows is an active 3-gun competitive shooter for Team Federal Premium, B&T USA, and Atlas Gunworks. In the offseason, he spends his time training and teaching classes for those with a desire to improve their skills with a firearm.

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, guns and the outdoors have always been a way of life for him. He spent his summers shooting .22 rifles and doing archery in his backyard, and the cold winters he shot air guns in his parents’ basement.

In 2005, he participated in his first shooting competition at a campaign fundraiser for a local politician’s campaign. He took third place and won a pump shotgun, which gave him his first taste of what would lead to a full-blown addiction to action shooting sports.

In more recent years, Sean has turned to 3-gun as his sport of choice, and he competes regularly across the western United States in club, regional, and national matches with his wife and shooting teammate, Alysia. His passion for shooting and firearms extends to the rest of his family as well. He makes ample time to spend with his four children, passing along the skills and life lessons learned from the pastime that has come to mean so much to him.

In 2020 he co-founded Elevated Training LLC to meet the ever-increasing demand for quality firearms education and has teamed up with Ready Gunner to provide you with unmatched training.