NRA PPOTH Class

[Cacique500]

I just completed the NRA Personal Protection Outside the Home class this weekend - what a fantastic class.

If you're going to CCW I highly suggest you take a look at this class. Different types of shooting scenerios are covered, just about every way you can shoot a gun is covered (standing, sitting, prone, squatting, one knee, on your back, etc.) It also really focuses your attention on how to draw from your concealed holster and you practice this almost all day long (even in the non-standard shooting positions). Different types of concealed carry options are covered including IWB, OWB, SOB, cross draw, shoulder rig, fanny pack, purse, etc. and how to safely draw from each of the above positions.

Well worth the money and you get a lot of shooting in on the first day (about 300 rounds).

 

[30 cal slob]

i guess this must be a newer NRA course offering - didn't see it on the menu before. makes sense, since the push for CCW has been fairly recent.

 

[Cacique500]

Yes it is a new one. Our instructor said it had been in the works for years and I think it just came out this year.

It really does a good job of covering every aspect of CCW with one exception - no low light or dark. Our instructor did some low light with us after the 'official' NRA course and since most SD situations are in low light/dark conditions I'm surprised they didn't include a chapter on that.

That was my only gripe - other than that - great class and I'm still sore from all the drills we did...

 

[RandyDTC]

I realize this is an old thread. Was searching for something else and ran across it.

The PPOTH course DOES contain a low light section and it does NOT contain a section on supine (on your back) shooting nor how to draw safely from anything other than a strong side hip holster and a holster purse.

Was this the 9 hour or 14 hour class? (did you get one or two certificates?)

Randy

 

[Cacique500]

One certificate, 9 hours (IIRC), and we didn't do any low light.

 

[RandyDTC]

Thanks for the reply.

The class is divided into two sections, a 9 hour basic and a 5 hour advanced. Both parts can be taught in sequence (as a 14 hour class) or the instructor can hold the basic 9 hour class and make the 5 hour advanced portion available to those who want it and have successfully completed the 9 hour class.

You only had the first part. Low light is done in the second part.

Randy

 

[ceetee]

How can I find out what classes (if any) are offered in my area?

 

[strat81]

http://www.nrahq.org/education/training/find.asp

PPOTH is not offered near me.

 

[AAshooter]

I have helped teach two PPOTH classes. One covered the supine position at the end of the advance portion. I believe under precision shooting.

 

[crebralfix]

Is there anything on point shooting, moving and shooting, getting off the X, and combatives?

Do they refer to a firearm as a weapon yet? Do they acknowledge weapons are for killing?

 

[Robert Hairless]

Is there anything on point shooting, moving and shooting, getting off the X, and combatives?

Do they refer to a firearm as a weapon yet? Do they acknowledge weapons are for killing?

This course is entitled Personal Protection Outside the Home. It's an advanced course in the NRA sequence and its audience is ordinary people who want basic skills to protect themselves. It's most definitely not a course in how to become a killer.

The NRA doesn't yet offer a ninja course. Personal Protection Outside the Home does not involve force-on-force combatives, interdicting terrorists, advanced acrobatics, gunfighting at the OK Corral, or slaying dragons with toothpick and petard.

Students tend to wear street clothes, not BDUs and boots or T Shirts that say things like "Have a plan to kill everyone you meet," and tend to be the kinds of people who want to avoid trouble and don't revel in it.

The NRA still doesn't refer to firearms as "weapons," or even as "gats," "roscoes," "pieces," "peacemakers," or any of the other names by which warriors distinguish themselves from the mere mortals amongst whom they move. It's not a course intended to encourage people to take up weapons and go forth to kill bad guys on the streets.

No fun, huh? Ordinary people never are. They just want to survive.

It is a good course nevertheless. It does include some moving while shooting, point shooting, and what you call "getting off the X."