Private Shooting lessons - Chino Hills, CA

Shaun specializes in private firearm training and tactical firearm training in the Chino Hills area that is a responsible person willing to learn safe gun handling:

- Any age 12-67 and 68 and older

-       Any gender or person of diversity

- Citizens with physical limitations

- Couples of any kind

- Families

- Families with children 

- Individual who wants to learn at a slower and manageable pace

- Business owners, writers, artists, actors, or actresses 

What distinguishes our services from other firearm training facilities is that we do not offer courses as a group. The firearms training in the region we offer is only offered to individuals, couples, or families.  

Most of our clients in Chino Hills or surrounding areas who want to learn how to shoot a gun, may not feel comfortable in a traditional class, or maybe they feel they need extra help. If this involves you, or your family, Shaun can help! 

On another note if you ever want to increase the intensity of your private shooting lesson, just ask Shaun who has a diversity of firearms and tactics-related training.  Shaun can always increase the tempo to add sweat.

You have the freedom of using your hours the way you want, or we will design a custom shooting course based on your specific requests. If you like for us to design a course for you, see below under "Private Course Options" and review Range Session Alpha and Home Invasion Defense.

Range Session Alpha

- Flat fee of $2,000

- Customized lesson plan – you approve it!

- 1-2 family members (additional fee if you want to add a 3rd or 4th shooter)

- 4 hours of live-range practice

- Legal aspects

- Gun safety lesson

- Marksmanship, gun handling, and mindset

- Loading/Reloading drills

- Malfunction clearance drills

- Designed for 1st time shooters or for shooters who need a refresher course

- If you’re looking to buy a gun, we can help you choose!

- You can bring your own rifle, pistol, or shotgun or borrow one

- Up to 100 rounds of ammunition is included with flat fee (additional fee for shotgun ammo)

Home Invasion Defense

-    You provide the home or office

-    1-2 family members (additional fee if you want to add a 3rd or 4th person)

-    Flat fee of $2,000

-    4-hour session

-    Gun safety

-    Weapon malfunctions (how to clear the three most common "jams")

-    Gun handling, marksmanship, and mindset

-    Loading/unloading

-    Rapid and legal storage considerations

-    1 or 2 partner drills

-    Low-light engagements

-    Flashlight techniques

-    Self-defense law review

-    Limited penetration (search technique)

-    Dynamic entry (search technique)

-    Open air engagements (backyard/side yard/front yard)

-    Vulnerability assessment by an off-duty police officer

-    Ask an (off-duty) cop anything Q&A session

-    There is no live fire, but you can create a 2nd day and we can go test out your abilities in a live-range environment depending on how the instructor feels about your knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Intermediate to Advanced Course (Designed for More Experienced or Confident Shooters)

-  Residents in Chino Hills will need to travel to the Palm Desert area or Imperial County to attend our intermediate and advanced courses.

-  Some ranges charge more per hour or day for instructor-led courses; we may find a range located closer to you, however, you would be responsible for the additional range fees (some charge an extra $1,000 or more).

Our current fee structure is $500.00 per hour with a 4-hour minimum. For the new shooter, we recommend 24 hours of training broken into six (6) days with 4-hour per day. Some people are older than others or may have physical limitations. In such instances, we recommend shorter days. Of course, everyone is different and may need less or more training; however, you can never get too much training!

Fees are due 7 days before the course or lesson begins. 

Q1: I 've never shot a gun before, can you help me?

A1: Absolutely!  We prefer our private firearm training clients have never handled a firearm. Many beginners learn bad habits (and good habits) from well-intentioned husbands (or wives), a dating partner, grandparents, uncles/aunts, cousins, parents, cops, ex-military, CCW instructors, colleagues, and friends who are “gun people.” 

Q2: Why are your fees so expensive?

A2: The fees that you pay would amount to the revenue generated from a class of 5-7 students. Instead of concentrating instructional efforts on a classroom full of students, we concentrate on one person or a few. Most of the time, 10% of the students in a firearms course divert 90% of our attention from the rest of the class.  

Q3: How much training should I sign up for?

A3: That is always a personal decision. Everyone learns differently at a different pace. You also want to ask yourself “what do I want to accomplish?”  Most first-time shooters who want training for self-defense will find it beneficial to attend an initial 40-hours of firearms training followed by 4-8 hours every six months. The initial training should include low-light techniques, maneuvering through your home or business with a firearm, marksmanship, gun handling, tactical medicine, and how to win a realistic gun fight or lethal force encounter. Even 40 hours is not a lot of training, but we feel most students will feel comfortable winning a realistic life and death situation, with this amount of minimal training. Most police officers get more initial training than 40 hours and even with 100 hours of training, we’ve found that new officers barely meet standards. 

Q4:  I attended the 2-day CCW course in California (or a 1-day course elsewhere). Am I getting the same training? 

A4: No. All instructors are unique in good ways and bad ways and have different teaching styles. Second, essentially all private firearms instructors are part of a business. The more students you have on the shooting line and in class, the more money they make. Unfortunately, the more students they have in class, the less personalized attention an individual shooter receives. That individual shooter that needs more attention is very likely to develop bad habits. Third, the 2-day CCW course does not expand too much into low-light, decision making (shoot/no shoot targets), and shooting on the move. 

Q5: I'm training for a detective or a police officer role in a movie. Will you train me for that objective?

A5: We offer custom solutions. We will train you how we train police officers. We do not train our students “range theatrics.” The definition of range theatrics is performing a technique involving a firearm, that does not serve any purpose other than appealing to an audience who is not familiar with firearms.

Q6: I am training for a SWAT team member role in a movie. Will you train me for that objective?

A6: Being a member of a real SWAT team has very little to do with the equipment you have or how well you can shoot.  SWAT operators usually train on a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly basis, on how to make better decisions under stress using special weapons and tactics.   That’s it. SWAT operators also learn the fundamentals of shooting and practice these fundamentals more often than the “average” patrol officer. That’s it. Upon request, we will train you how SWAT operators train, however there is nothing too much eye appealing.

Q7: I am a social media influencer. Can I attend a one-on-one shooting lesson with you?

A7: Absolutely.  You can set up your cameras in a way that follows the rules of the range and/or the safety standards within the firearms community. No horseplay. No stunts. No unsafe behavior.