When One Arm Is All You Have — It Has to Be Enough
Gunfights don’t happen on square ranges.
They happen fast, up close, and violently — and one of the first things to get hit is what’s sticking out in front of you: your hands and arms.
If you assume you’ll always have two hands on the gun, perfect footing, and time to think, you’re training for the wrong fight.
This class exists for the moment your plan breaks.
Reality Check
In a real defensive shooting you may be:
• Shot in the arm
• Injured, cut, or holding a child
• Fending off an attacker
• On the ground
• Fighting through pain and adrenaline
Two-handed shooting may no longer be an option.
Your ability to fight — and survive — may come down to one functional hand.
What This Class Is About
The One-Hand Pistol Operator Class is designed to make you dangerously capable with your pistol when everything goes wrong.
This isn’t a novelty skill.
This isn’t “just in case” training.
This is failure-proofing your gunfighting ability.
You will learn how to:
• Draw
• Shoot
• Reload
• Clear malfunctions
• Keep the gun running
— with either hand, under stress, when time is not on your side.
What You’ll Train
This course focuses on balancing speed and accuracy while operating the pistol one-handed — because missing doesn’t stop a threat, and going slow may get you killed.
Training includes:
• Survival mindset for fighting while injured
• When and why one-handed shooting becomes necessary
• Proper one-hand grip, recoil control, and sight alignment
• Drawing from the holster with the strong hand
• Drawing from the holster with the support hand
• Accuracy drills for strong-hand and support-hand shooting
• Speed drills under pressure
• One-handed reloads using real-world methods
• One-handed malfunction clearing techniques
Every skill is built around what works under stress, not what looks good on a range.
Why This Training Matters
Most shooters train for best-case conditions.
Violence doesn’t care about your best case.
This class prepares you for:
• Injury
• Chaos
• Imperfect conditions
• Real consequences
If you carry a handgun to protect yourself or your family, you owe it to them to know you can still fight when you’re hurt.
Because when you’re bleeding, scared, and running out of time —
competence with one hand can be the difference between survival and failure.
Required Equipment
• Magazine-fed pistol (no revolvers)
• Minimum of 3 magazines
• Belt-mounted magazine pouch
• Belt-mounted dominant-side holster
• Eye protection
• Ear protection (electronic preferred)
• Sturdy belt
• Weather-appropriate clothing and footwear
Estimated Round Count
• 250 rounds FMJ
• 100 rounds compressed copper frangible
One-Hand Pistol Operator
Train for the injury you hope never happens —
So you’re ready when it does.
Prerequisite: This is not a beginner level class. The student needs to know and be able to demonstrate safe gun handling, weapon system familiarity, foundational marksmanship skills, and working from a holster. We strongly recommend completion of our Defensive Handgun Advanced or Defensive Concealed Carry Class prior to registering for this course.