The NRA Rifle Instructor Training course is designed to develop NRA Certified Instructors who possess the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to conduct the NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course. NRA Rifle Instructor Training begins with the NRA Basic Instructor Training class, which must be completed first. Both classes together form the required course for NRA Rifle Instructor certification. (You are not considered an NRA Certified Instructor until the NRA Training Department processes your application and issues your instructor credentials.)
Did you know that NRA Rifle Instructor certification is a requirement for becoming a Boy Scouts of America Rifle Merit Badge Counselor? The Boy Scouts of America decides all matters relating to Rifle Merit Badge Counselors.
Prerequisites
To enroll in the NRA Rifle Instructor Training class you must:
send us an application to the class, an NRA Pre-Course Questionnaire, and payment of the current class fee, and
achieve satisfactory scores in an NRA Pre-Course Qualification that we conduct for promising potential Instructor candidates.
In your Pre-Course Qualification you must: 1. achieve a score of 90 percent or higher in a written examination and 2. have a minimum passing score of 80 out of a possible 100 points in firearms handling, shooting competence, and firearms safety evaluation.
The NRA states that “Only those candidates who achieve satisfactory scores in the pre-course qualification, and who meet other specified requirements for NRA instructors, are eligible for certification.”
All NRA instructor training is a two-part course. The NRA Basic Instructor Training class is the first part of that two-part course and is Lessons I-V of every course. The discipline-specific class is the second part of that two-part course and begins with Lesson VI.
This NRA Rifle Instructor Training class proceeds through eight lessons that teach you how to conduct the NRA Basic Rifle Shooting course step by step using the NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course Outline and Lesson Plans, and how to teach rifle shooting on a basic level. NRA Rifle Instructor Training concludes with the Rifle Instructor Examination and other preliminaries to certification by the NRA.
Here are the lessons in the NRA Rifle Instructor Training class:
Introduction to “NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course Outline and Lesson Plans”
Teaching “Rifle Lesson I: Rifle Knowledge and Safe Handling”
Teaching “Rifle Lesson II: Ammunition Knowledge and the Fundamentals of Rifle Shooting”
Basic Rifle Shooting Instructional Method
Teaching “Rifle Lesson III: Firing the First Shots”
