Taught my first NRA pistol instructor class last weekend which was a last minute request for my friends. It was very rough and stressful and fortunately everyone had past experience teaching so we pushed through and got it done. I also had to teach them the Basics of Pistol Shooting (BPS) course as a prereq since it's rarely taught. 3 days and nights of class.
Prepping for the class was quite a bit of work, especially putting the binders together and I ended up using a 700 sheet ream of paper printing the materials. I have a heavy duty printer which saved me half the cost of printing it outside. I purchased the 1" binders from Amazon for about $2 each but they just barely held everything, next time I'll get the 1.5" binders instead and add 8 tab binder dividers too.
Inside the binders I had the:
1. NRA BIT (ordered through NRA)
2. NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting ILT (downloaded and printed)
3. NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting Blended (downloaded and printed)
4. Additional NRA BIT financial worksheet
5. NRA BIT/BPS/BPS Instructor Exams
6. Extra BPS qual and instructor qual targets
7. NRA Pistol Pre-course qual.
8. Extra NRA Pistol Performance Requirements Checklist
9. NRA Gun Safety Rules card
10. HRA HI Firearm laws (
http://hawaiirifleassociation.org/hawaii-gun-laws/)
11. Compiled ATF HRS (
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/guide/firearmsstatutesandcodes-hawaiipdf/download)
12. HRS 663-9.5 Liability of firearm owners (
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol13_Ch0601-0676/HRS0663/HRS_0663-0009_0005.htm)
13. Sample Hawaii affidavit
14. HI Firearm purchase flowchart (
https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=222.0)
15. HRA application (
http://hawaiirifleassociation.org/membership/)
16. HI SBDC flyer (
www.hisbdc.org)
17. Liability waiver
That was a lot to print and assemble. Basic pistol was simple since everyone was already very experienced, except the candidates needed some help working the revolvers the NRA way. For the live fire, I did an excellent range orientation and safety brief as an example, then went over coaching and tricks for troubleshooting accuracy like ball and dummy and live fire1 dry fire 1 drills. 2 candidates finished the instructor qual with centerfire, the other 2 were close but had to switch to rimfire to get the 16 out of 20 shots in a 6" group at 15 yards. That was it, next up is the instructor course.
To be continued....