Join us for a women-only basic protection and introduction to handguns course!
About the Women’s Basic Protection Course
If you’re looking for an opportunity to join other women in learning the basics about firearms, this Women’s Basic Protection and Handgun Selection course is for you.
This course is small and intimate—and just for women. When you join us in this course you’ll enjoy:
- Increased self-confidence and self-awareness
- Greater ability to ensure your loved ones are safe
- Confidence in choosing pistols that fit you perfectly
- Increased appreciation for a competitive sport
Our courses are small, so we can focus on your safety, provide personal attention, and help you learn to shoot in a safe, fun environment.
We’ve taught over 950 women during the last 4 years and we LOVE seeing them thrive after our course, developing huge confidence as a result of their dramatic increase in competence.
What you’ll learn:
This course is a blend of classroom and practical on-the-range instruction in which you’ll learn:
- Basic firearm safety rules and safe gun handling
- The parts and operations of both semi-automatic pistols and revolvers
- The fundamentals of shooting: grip, stance, aiming, sight alignment, trigger control, and follow-through
- Ammunition types and selection
- How to choose a firearm that fits you—you might be surprised at what you’re most comfortable with!
- Numerous tips for situational awareness, avoiding conflict, and personal protection
Course Specifics
The course runs from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm. We would love to have you join us at 7:45 am for amazing coffee to fuel our chit-chat so you can get to know your soon-to-be-best friends! You’ll begin with instruction in a well-lit and comfortable classroom, with very clean restrooms. In the afternoon, we’ll move outdoors to the covered pistol shooting bay. You’ll begin shooting with .22 caliber pistols. These are super easy to handle and fire—and they help boost your confidence. If you’re comfortable doing so, you can shoot larger defensive rounds such as .38, 380, 9mm, and .45 caliber pistols. If the weather is cold, we’ll warm up between shooting with a portable heater.
We will provide coffee, water, snacks, as well as a hot and hearty home-cooked lunch-this is not to be missed! We’ll provide handguns and ammunition. You are welcome to bring your own handgun and ammunition but please, do not feel you have to purchase a handgun for this program. We’ll also have hearing and eye protection for you. Feel free to bring your own if you already have them.
Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate of course completion.
Course requirements
This course is for women only, age 18 and above (we may make exceptions on a case-by-case basis-contact us to discuss).
Tuition
Tuition for the course is $275* per person. We love it when you bring your friends with you!
*** PLEASE NOTE ***
*Ammunition prices have skyrocketed. To make sure we have the ability to replenish our ammunition for all our classes this year we’re forced to raise our prices slightly. We hate doing it but we have to purchase ammo for you to shoot with!
Why the shortage and price hikes? There are more than 7 million new firearm owners last year (and LOTS of them are women!). If each of them bought two boxes (100 rounds) of ammo, that equals a demand for a minimum of 700 million rounds of ammo. The manufacturers simply cannot keep up and prices are skyrocketing. Here’s hoping that things will return to normal soon.
2023 Schedule
We’re SO excited to have you join us!
Below are the upcoming course dates. Don’t delay. We have a huge waiting list of women, and more calling every day. So many women have delayed only to come back later and find everything is completely full!
Or, you can send someone a gift certificate! When you purchase we’ll send you a certificate with the recipient’s name on it and you can share it with them for that special event! All they have to do is contact us to redeem and choose a date that works best for them! Certificate holders get first dibs on any new courses added!
If the courses are all full or you aren’t able to attend one of the scheduled programs, contact us and we’ll notify you the moment a new course is added.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
Payment is due at the time of registration. Our facilities and instructors are pre-paid, so we cannot allow rescheduling or refunds. Upon registration, you will be asked to fill out a waiver and attest that you are eligible to handle firearms (i.e. no felonies).
Location
All courses are taught at our super comfortable and private classroom in Enumclaw. The shooting portion will be at a nearby range. Shortly after lunch we’ll shuttle to the range for our shooting portion and then return to the comfort of the classroom.
Who are your instructors?
We are passionate about teaching women to protect themselves and their loved ones, enabling them to embark on their next adventure with confidence and security. All four of us are certified NRA instructors. We’ve been teaching classroom and practical programs for nearly two decades.
Curtis is the lead instructor, with nearly 20 years of training experience with people of all ages. He is an NRA-certified instructor for NRA Pistol, Home Defense, Personal Protection Inside the Home, and Black Powder programs. He is also an NRA-certified Range Safety Officer.
Becky is the reason we started all of this. She was tired of being dismissed in firearms training courses and having to prove that she was a better shot than the instructor before she was welcomed into the club. She is adamant that women just need the opportunity to learn new skills in order to perform comparably. She has a degree in psychology which she leverages heavily to help women understand how to defend themselves. Becky is an NRA-certified instructor for NRA Pistol and is assisting in this course.
Kelsey has been shattering stereotypes her whole life. She enjoys challenging assumptions of what women are capable of doing. When not in business dress, she does 50-mile hikes and enjoys shooting the largest production revolvers and semi-automatic handguns available in the US (truly ‘big-ass’ handguns!). She is an NRA-certified instructor for NRA Pistol and is assisting in this course.
Katon is our resident armorer and firearms expert. He has been actively shooting for nearly a decade and enjoys defensive and competitive shooting. He is a Master-level USPSA competition shooter, an active mini-3-gun competitor, and actively teaches others how to compete effectively. He is an NRA-certified instructor for NRA Pistol and is assisting in this course.
We look forward to having you join us!