Train for the day you hope never comes.
Defensive firearms instruction, the law that governs using them, and a written protection plan that fits the way your family actually lives. Taught in small groups at River Bend Gun Club.
Nine courses, taught in sequence.
Start with the fundamentals or come in where you are. Each course runs on a repeating schedule, so there is always a next date.
- AR-15 Fundamentals The platform from the ground up — zeroing, malfunctions, positional shooting, and the legal considerations specific to a rifle kept for home defense.
- Self Defense Firearm Basics For the first-time owner. Safe handling, storage, and the decisions that come before a firearm is ever drawn.
- The Legal Use of Force What Georgia law actually says about when force is justified, and what happens in the hours and months after you use it.
- Developing a Personal and Home Protection Plan Build the plan before you need it: layers, choke points, communication, and what everyone in the house is supposed to do.
- Skills Builder — Handgun Structured live-fire practice for shooters who have the fundamentals and want repetitions under supervision.
- Skills Builder — AR-15 The rifle equivalent: drills, transitions, and diagnostics, run in morning and afternoon relays.
- Gear and Gadgets Holsters, lights, optics, safes and everything sold to you as a solution — what earns its place and what does not.
- Shooting Fundamentals Grip, stance, sight picture, trigger. The four things that fix most of what is wrong with most shooters.
- Violent Encounters and Their Aftermath The physiological and legal reality of a violent encounter, and the long tail that follows one.
A plan is not a purchase.
Owning a firearm is a decision. Knowing what your household does at two in the morning is a plan. We build the second one with you, in writing, and we review it.
The talks we give for nothing.
Some of what matters most is not a range day. These run at churches, workplaces and community groups around Dawson and Forsyth counties, and they are free.
River Bend Gun Club
789 Riverbend Gun Club Rd, Dawsonville, GA 30534
Classroom sessions and live fire both happen here, about an hour north of Atlanta. Directions and what to bring are sent with every booking.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4
Book the next one.
Courses fill from a small roster. If a date is listed, there is a seat.
See the schedule