A 2-hour private session can be custom tailored to fit your individual needs on a firearm. Firearms may include your handgun, your defensive shotgun, carbine rifle or your hunting rifle. Each session the Instructor evaluates the student’s safety, gun handling/operation and marksmanship and adapts the lesson fitting the student. We allow up to 3 people in this private instruction. To add more people select the one or both of the additional people add-ons listed below.

The First Pistol course is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper management to one specific pistol action type; the semi-automatic handgun. This course is designed to give you an introduction to basic firearm safety, basic pistol shooting, to give you the confidence to make your FIRST PISTOL purchase.

This 2-hour Basic Pistol Safety class is designed for a person that owns or recently purchased a pistol and wanting to enhance their knowledge, skills and safety. The 2-hours will include range lecture, demonstrations, range practice and physical repetition to develop long term skills. This is a course designed for the first time shooter, someone who has very limited experience handling a pistol. There will be minimal shooting and much more of a focus on operation and safety.

Pistol 1 is a step above our Basic Pistol & Safety class and for anyone wanting to improve on their pistol fundamentals. Objective of the class is to learn pistol operation, range and firearm safety, and improve marksmanship. Students will participate in dry-fire and live-fire drills under close observation by Instructor. This class would be highly recommended prior to taking out Combat Pistol class.

This is an introductory course for youth shooters including classroom and range time with semi-automatic pistols. The range portion of course will be supervised by our Chief Firearms Instructor, and the parent/guardian must be present on the range. The firearms will be semi-automatic .22 LR caliber so as not to discourage the new shooters with a large amount of recoil

The objective of Combat Pistol Level 1 is to introduce students to tactics and advanced individual skills in combat marksmanship through a progressive and challenging class. “IN THIS CLASS EVERY ROUND YOU FIRE IS A TEST.”
Prerequisites: (This is not a beginner course. You must have a basic safety and marksmanship skills to qualify for this course.)
License to Carry
Or taken a firearms lesson/class with APTS Chief Instructor
Good health, this will be physical, mental challenging class.

This 2-hour course introduces new shooters to safe use, and the operation of a carbine (AR-15, M-4, or AK system) allowing them to practice confidently on their own at the range and attend future training. Training consists of lecture, demonstration, dry-fire practice, and live-fire familiarization session that includes obtaining a 25-yard battle zero.

Carbine Rifle 1 is a basic semi-automatic rifle course geared toward personal protection. Carbine Rifle 1 fits individuals that have no AR/M4 rifle experience as well as for those who have some rifle handling experience but are interested in refining skills and develop the confidence needed to successfully use a rifle for self-defense.

The Rifle Zero Workshop is a 3-hour training course designed to instruct basic knowledge, skills to properly attain a zero a carbine semi-auto rifle or bolt action rifle. Please bring the required equipment to the class. This course is designed for the person with little to no knowledge of the rifle shooting platform, and of their optics. This course is also beneficial for the shooter having trouble keeping consistent shots on target by improving fundamentals.

The objective of this class is to get you prepared to take, and pass, an License To Carry class. We will cover how to prepare for the LTC class, targets and scoring, and the basic fundamentals for shooting. You will also shoot a practice shooting proficiency test. THIS IS NOT THE SHOOTING QUALIFICATION FOR THE LTC. You will not receive a certificate stating you have passed the shooting portion of the LTC unless you have previously FAILED the LTC Shooting Qualification in a previous course.

THIS IS ONLY FOR THOSE THAT HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED THE WRITTEN PORTION OF THE LICENSE TO CARRY ONLINE
The Proficiency demonstration is required for every student that completes the online Texas License to Carry class regardless of what Online Provider website you take the class through. The proficiency demonstration consists of 1-2 hours of “classroom and range instruction” and a 50 round shooting qualification. Bring your LTC-101 certificate that will be provided by your Online Provider

Our LTC class includes all State mandated classroom instruction, in addition you must pass the 25 question exam & demonstrate handgun proficiency with our Licensed Instructor. Total time (all classroom, exam, handgun proficiency, & breaks is approximately 5 to 6 hours). This is not a training course. You are expected to be able to function, load and unload and clear jams of your firearm. This is simply a qualification and test.