Mining Ridge Armory
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WHICH TRAINING TRACK IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
We offer a full progression of training, from brand-new shooters learning the basics to experienced protectors working advanced skills. Our courses range from introductory firearm safety to scenario-driven defensive work, along with non-shooting personal safety and awareness programs.
Review the course descriptions below, then contact us so we can help match you with the right class for your experience level and goals.
Private Lessons
Prefer one-on-one or small-group training? Mining Ridge Armory offers private lessons tailored to your goals, whether that’s pistol, rifle, shotgun, concealed carry, situational awareness, or select Ghost Tactics topics.
We’ll match the training to your skill level, gear, and real-world needs, with safety and legal compliance always first.
Contact us directly to discuss your objectives, schedule, and pricing.
NRA Basic Pistol Shooting
$120
This entry-level course combines classroom and range time to teach safe handgun handling, pistol parts and operation, ammunition basics, and fundamental marksmanship skills with both revolvers and semi-automatic pistols. Students learn NRA range safety rules, basic shooting positions, and how to clean and maintain their handgun.
The course is typically a full 8-hour day, and successful participants receive the official NRA student materials and a course completion certificate.
NRA Range Safety Officer
$120
This non-shooting, 9-hour course prepares you to safely supervise shooting activities on the range. Candidates learn the roles and responsibilities of an RSO, range standard operating procedures (SOPs), range inspection and rules, conducting safety briefings, handling stoppages and malfunctions, and responding to emergencies.
Successful students receive the official NRA RSO training materials and are eligible to complete NRA certification as a Range Safety Officer.
NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home
$120
NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home (PPITH) is an 8-hour defensive pistol course for law-abiding, experienced adult shooters who want to protect themselves and their families at home. It teaches the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for home defense, including basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, an overview of firearms and the law, and how to choose a handgun for self-defense. Students typically fire around 100 rounds and receive the official NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home and an NRA course completion certificate.
Ghost Tactics: Hijack, Extract, Communicate, Vanish
$120
A one-day, intensive lab on recovering data, moving information, and staying connected in non-permissive environments—legally and ethically. You’ll learn how to safely “hijack” available hardware and networks, extract and safeguard critical data, establish resilient, low-profile communications, and then vanish from the attack surface with smart digital hygiene and compartmentation.
Built for protectors, investigators, and security-minded professionals, this course focuses on practical, repeatable workflows you can use during travel, emergencies, corporate incidents, or hostile conditions, without needing to be a programmer or hacker.
NC Concealed Carry Handgun$75
This course meets North Carolina’s training requirement to apply for a Concealed Carry Handgun Permit. Students complete at least 8 hours of classroom instruction plus a live-fire qualification on the range.
Classroom topics include NC laws on the use of deadly force and where concealed handguns are prohibited, along with firearm safety, handgun types, and marksmanship fundamentals.
NRA Basic Shotgun Shooting
$120
This introductory course combines classroom and range time to teach safe shotgun handling, parts and operation, ammunition basics, and fundamental skills for shooting moving targets. Students learn NRA range safety rules, how to engage straightaway and angled targets, and basic cleaning and maintenance. The course is typically a full-day (or longer) program, and successful participants receive the official NRA student materials and a course completion certificate.
NRA FIRST Steps
Pistol, Rifle, or Shotgun
$75
NRA FIRST Steps courses are short, small-group introductions to one specific pistol, rifle, or shotgun model/action type. Each class runs about 3 hours and combines classroom and range time to cover:
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Safe gun handling and NRA safety rules
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Basic parts, operation, and ammunition
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Fundamental shooting skills
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Basic cleaning and care
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How to continue developing your skills
Students work hands-on with their specific firearm and receive official NRA student materials and a FIRST Steps course completion certificate.
NRA Basic Personal Protection Outside The Home
$240
This intermediate defensive pistol course teaches the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential for avoiding dangerous confrontations and for the safe, effective, and responsible use of a concealed pistol for self-defense in public.
PPOTH builds on NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home and includes significant live-fire work from concealment, use of cover, movement, multiple threats, and varied-light conditions. The curriculum is delivered in basic and advanced levels over 2 days, with successful students earning the appropriate NRA course certificates.
Ghost Tactics:
Situational Awareness
$120
You’ve heard phrases like “keep your head on a swivel,” “watch your six,” and “always be aware of your surroundings.” But what does that actually mean in real life—and more importantly, what should you do when something doesn’t look right?
Ghost Tactics: Situational Awareness gives you a scientifically informed, data-driven framework for recognizing pre-event indicators before a situation turns critical. You’ll learn how to spot anomalies, assess intent, and make better decisions under stress, whether you’re protecting your family, your team, your workplace, or yourself.
This course is designed to build practical skills and quiet confidence, so you can identify potential threats early, avoid or de-escalate when possible, and respond appropriately when action is required.
Protector Series I, II, III
Pistol, Shotgun, PCC, Rifle
$120
The Protector series from Mining Ridge Armory is a progressive training program for responsible citizens, first responders, and security professionals. Across pistol, rifle, shotgun, and PCC, each level builds on the last to develop safe, confident, and capable protectors.
Level I builds core combat fundamentals. Level II applies those skills with movement, cover, communication, and multiple threats. Level III focuses on advanced engagement and problem-solving in more realistic, high-demand scenarios, always grounded in lawful, ethical use of force so you can Train Real. Live Ready.
NRA Basic Rifle Shooting
$240
This introductory rifle course combines classroom and range time to teach safe gun handling, rifle parts and operation, ammunition basics, and fundamental marksmanship skills. Students learn NRA shooting positions (bench rest, prone, sitting, standing, and kneeling), range safety, and basic cleaning and maintenance. The course is typically delivered over two days due to the amount of material and live-fire time, and successful participants receive the official NRA student materials and course completion certificate.
NRA Refuse To Be A Victim Seminar
$75
Refuse To Be A Victim® is the NRA’s award-winning personal safety and crime-prevention seminar. In this non-shooting, classroom-only program, you’ll learn practical strategies you can use every day to reduce your chances of becoming a victim at home, in your vehicle, online, at work, and in public places.
Topics include how criminals select victims, strengthening home and automobile security, travel and parking-lot safety, workplace and personal safety planning, and using technology and basic personal safety devices wisely. The focus is on awareness, avoidance, and building layered security—not on fighting skills. This is not a firearms or hand-to-hand self-defense course.
Seminars typically run 3–4 hours and can be tailored from a focused 90-minute session to a full-day program for churches, businesses, and community groups. Each participant receives the official Refuse To Be A Victim® student materials packet and a course completion certificate.
Ghost Tactics:
Mobile Anonymity & Secure Ops
$120
A one-day course on staying low-profile and secure with the phone you carry every day. Learn how devices, apps, and networks track you—and how to limit metadata, harden your phone, and communicate more safely while staying within the law and policy.
We focus on practical, repeatable checklists for travel phones, app/permission hygiene, location controls, safer messaging, and what to do if a device is lost, seized, or compromised, so you can move and operate with less exposure and more control.
Ghost Tactics:
Applied OSINT For Protectors
$120
Are you an executive protection agent, private investigator, law enforcement officer, or other law-abiding citizen looking to expand your intelligence-gathering skills? Are you concerned about your current level of cybersecurity knowledge?
Whether you are performing an advance for your principal, operating in a non-permissive environment, investigating an individual or business, forensically recovering data, or hardening the threat surface of your organization, Mining Ridge Armory can help you take your skills to the next level, legally, ethically, and effectively.