Practical Shooting Instruction

02/23/2026

Practical Shooting Instruction - 2026 Class Schedule and Announcements -

02/09/2026

After a long winter - we have the first half of our 2026 classes scheduled on our website. Additionally, available for private classes. Please contact if you have any questions:

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11/17/2025

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08/06/2025

Practical Shooting Instruction - 2025 Class Schedule and Announcements -

05/26/2025

05/22/2025

PSI Friends and Alumni - Gary Marbut and MSSA are behind most of the pro-gun legislation in Montana. Please call your senators and ask them to support the Hearing Protection Act and SHORT Act. These are both pro-2nd Amendment pieces of legislation and need to be passed. Thanks!

Dear MSSA Friends,

There has been a considerable stir going on in D.C. about the current effort with Congress to take suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and "any other weapons" out of the National Fi****ms Act, thereby removing those items from registration, taxation, and special regulatory attention. This change is being pushed to be included as a part of President Trump's "one big beautiful" budget bill. This is a critical opportunity since the budget bill is not subject to filibuster in the Senate and can be passed with only 51 votes. As a stand-alone measure, supporters could never achieve the 60-vote majority required to override a filibuster in the Senate and get this done.

There are two measures under discussion here, the Hearing Protection Act, and the SHORT Act. HPA addresses suppressors and SHORT addresses SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.

MSSA was early in signing a letter of support to get these fixes into the budget bill. See a report about this letter at:

https://www.ammoland.com/2025/05/gun-rights-groups-demand-real-reform-to-national-firearms-act

This effort has also long been pushed by Gun Owners of America, with which MSSA is associated and highly simpatico.

The current status is that the HPA has been included in the budget bill by the House, but not SHORT, and the bill has been passed on to the Senate. The immediate push is to get the Senate to add SHORT to the budget bill and approve the bill with both HPA and SHORT included.

We assume that both of Montana's U.S. Senators Daines and Sheehy are in support of this effort to pass both the HPA and SHORT as a part of the budget, but it won't hurt to remind them that Montana gun owners are watching, critically. A brief message to them could be something like "Please add the SHORT Act to the budget bill and pass it with both the HPA and SHORT included."

You can message Senator Daines at:
https://www.daines.senate.gov/services/email-steve/
202-224-2651

You can message Senator Sheehy at:
https://www.sheehy.senate.gov/share-your-opinion/
202-224-2644

Thanks for your help with this.

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05/08/2025

There will be a great instructor coming to Missoula, MT at the end of this summer. I expect both of these classes to fill fairly fast, so if you are interested, get signed up asap. These classes will be excellent for beginners thru advanced shooters. Hope to see you there. Here is a summary of what will be covered:

Practical Shooting Vision Focus Class
1. Principles
- Vision speed
- Visual guidance
- Hand-eye Coordination
2. Mechanics
- Trigger control
- Grip
- Recoil management
3. Target transitions
- Maximizing vision focus
- Appropriate amount of confirmation
- Immediate transition
4. Movement
- Proper target tracking
- Explosive movement priority
- Shooting on the move
5. Field course
- High level performance
- Strategies
- Skill application

Practical Shooting Mastery Class
1. Shooting fundamentals
- Proper vision focus
- Acceptable amount of confirmation
- Acceptable shot placements

2. Target transitions
- Max eye speed
- Gun transition speed with precision
- Confirmation
- Application of different confirmation levels

3. Performance focused training
- Mindset for best performance
- Efficient entry
- Trigger break exits
- Shooting on the move

4. Strategy and Ex*****on
- Data collection and ex*****on
- Efficient stage planning
- Comparison of different strategies
- Performance under pressure

04/23/2025

Our first Defensive Pistol class is coming up this May 10. If you would like to learn some skills and drills to protect yourself with a firearm - consider signing up. Hope to see you there!

Class fees are transferable to the next scheduled class of the scheduled year ONLY, and only if there is room.  Class fees are non-refundable.