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NEW NRA Trainer Rating Credential Fee Structure! These fees are paid directly to the NRA and are not included in any fees paid to us!
NRA Members will pay $40.00 for the first rating and $20.00 for each additional rating. Non-NRA Members will pay $175.00 for the first rating and $40.00 for each additional rating. These fees are usually payable to the NRA every two years to maintain currency. NRA members will pay one fee every two years to renew all ratings, not a fee for each rating! Read below to get more information on "ratings." Call us at least one week prior to registering for any classes if you are wanting to join the NRA.Please read the rest of this page for more info.
NRA Members will pay $40.00 for the first rating and $20.00 for each additional rating. Non-NRA Members will pay $175.00 for the first rating and $40.00 for each additional rating. These fees are usually payable to the NRA every two years to maintain currency. NRA members will pay one fee every two years to renew all ratings, not a fee for each rating! Read below to get more information on "ratings." Call us at least one week prior to registering for any classes if you are wanting to join the NRA.Please read the rest of this page for more info.
HIGH PLAINS CONCEALED CARRY (HPCC) IS PRESENTING A SHORT SERIES OF CLASSES IN JUNE 2026 IN
LAS VEGAS, NV!
Feel free to contact us to discuss scheduling a custom series of classes at your location! Click on the HOME link and see the page about our training team to know what movies you need to watch to understand the HPCC instructor's movie quotes and references! Successfully completing a basic course with a qualifying live fire score (see below for live fire requirements) is a prerequisite for attending any corresponding Instructor class! For example, completing Basic Pistol at Level 4 is a prerequisite for attending Pistol Instructor. Rifle instructor is similar. The shooter course is a prerequisite for all corresponding instructor courses. Also, being qualified as a Basic Pistol Instructor is a prerequisite for attending the more advanced instructor courses. Call us 575-985-5555 or see below for more information. If you are an NRA member, your class registration information must match your NRA membership information exactly, such as name, address, phone number and NRA membership number. Do not register for a class without using your NRA membership number unless you are OK paying the much higher credential registration fees to the NRA. Call us to join the NRA if you are not a member. Please call us at least one week before registering for any classes, as it takes a few days for the NRA to issue an actual membership number.
Unfortunately, the NRA website does not allow one registration to enroll a candidate in multiple classes. Candidates will need to register for each individual class. HPCC is offering a series of classes in Las Vegas, NV from June 13-16, 2026. The series will include the following classes. The registration link is listed for each class. NRA Basic Pistol (BP), Saturday June 13, 2026, $250.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923149 NRA Range Safety (RSO) Sunday June 14, 2026, $250.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923151 NRA Personal Protection In The Home (PPIH), Monday June 15, 2026, $300.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923152 NRA Personal Protection In The Home Instructor (PPIHI) without BIT Tuesday June 16, 2026, $350.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=919993 Please call 575-985-5555 with any questions, or email training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com.
Feel free to contact us to discuss scheduling a custom series of classes at your location! Click on the HOME link and see the page about our training team to know what movies you need to watch to understand the HPCC instructor's movie quotes and references! Successfully completing a basic course with a qualifying live fire score (see below for live fire requirements) is a prerequisite for attending any corresponding Instructor class! For example, completing Basic Pistol at Level 4 is a prerequisite for attending Pistol Instructor. Rifle instructor is similar. The shooter course is a prerequisite for all corresponding instructor courses. Also, being qualified as a Basic Pistol Instructor is a prerequisite for attending the more advanced instructor courses. Call us 575-985-5555 or see below for more information. If you are an NRA member, your class registration information must match your NRA membership information exactly, such as name, address, phone number and NRA membership number. Do not register for a class without using your NRA membership number unless you are OK paying the much higher credential registration fees to the NRA. Call us to join the NRA if you are not a member. Please call us at least one week before registering for any classes, as it takes a few days for the NRA to issue an actual membership number.
Unfortunately, the NRA website does not allow one registration to enroll a candidate in multiple classes. Candidates will need to register for each individual class. HPCC is offering a series of classes in Las Vegas, NV from June 13-16, 2026. The series will include the following classes. The registration link is listed for each class. NRA Basic Pistol (BP), Saturday June 13, 2026, $250.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923149 NRA Range Safety (RSO) Sunday June 14, 2026, $250.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923151 NRA Personal Protection In The Home (PPIH), Monday June 15, 2026, $300.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=923152 NRA Personal Protection In The Home Instructor (PPIHI) without BIT Tuesday June 16, 2026, $350.00 https://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseDetails.aspx?Courseid=919993 Please call 575-985-5555 with any questions, or email training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com.
Our goal when we travel from Clovis, NM to offer classes is to do that as affordably as possible for our candidates. Obviously, the more candidates in a class, the more affordably we can offer these classes. Our goal each time we do this is to cover our travel and expenses with some leftover to allow our instructor corps to enjoy the location we are at while we are in town. We do not need to make a huge profit when we offer these trainings. More students who register for, pay for and attend these courses will allow us to offer more and bigger discounts. Please do not pay any deposits until we call you and advise you of the final price and ask for the deposit. We do charge a 3% fee for all credit card, or debit card payments.
Of the classes we are offering in this series, NRA Credentialing fees apply to PI and PPIHI and any other instructor certification. For the first rating NRA members: $40, Non-Members: $175. Additional Rating Activation fee: NRA Members: $20, Non-Members: $40.00.
HPCC has a minimum number of candidates required to put on any class. Also, NRA requires a minimum of four candidates to conduct any Instructor class or CRSO class.
The deposit for each series will be due once a series has the minimum number of registered candidates. Please do not make any payments, or deposits until we call you. However, registration for each series will close no later than 4 weeks prior to the series start date. If by the registration close date, the series does not have enough candidates, the series will be cancelled, or rescheduled to a later timeframe, and no deposits will be collected.
HPCC will always refund any fees collected on the rare occasion where we are forced to cancel a class. Refunds are not offered for no-show candidates. Reschedules can sometimes be offered if requested far enough in advance. However, we cannot guarantee they will be offered in the same location without being rescheduled to several months later.
NRA student materials are included with the fee for each class, or series of classes and will be provided to each candidate. The fee for each basic class includes one session lasting two hours of live fire range time and coaching; this is when the NRA live fire qualification for each series will be attempted. Any candidate requiring additional range time, or range days to shoot the NRA required qualification will be responsible for paying any additional range fees.
Candidates should bring a .22 caliber pistol with open, or iron sights and sufficient ammunition to fire the required qualification for the basic pistol classes. Center fire pistols with open, or iron sights are allowed, but rimfire is suggested. HPCC will bring loaner pistols for the .22 qualifications that are very conducive to these courses of fire, you supply your .22 ammo.
Candidates will bring a centerfire pistol and sufficient ammunition to fire the more advanced courses of fire.
NRA allows optics, but we do not allow optics. Call us to discuss why we only allow iron, or open sights and why that could be a significant advantage to you.
All firearms and ammunition must meet the approval of the HPCC training team. NRA has live fire prequalification requirements for each Instructor class. The live fire will usually be conducted in the evening after classroom training, so those days may be a little longer than the scheduled 9:00 am to 5:00 pm class days; please plan accordingly.
This is not exact, but in general the .22 prequals look like this:
Pistol Instructor candidates, among other requirements, will need to be able to shoot a twenty shot, slow fire, six-inch group at fifteen yards, standing, unsupported, with open or iron sights, no optics, using as many hands as you would like. Rifle Instructor candidates, among other requirements, will need to be able to shoot a ten shot, slow fire, four and a half-inch group at twenty-five yards, in bench rest, in prone and in standing unsupported, with open or iron sights, no optics, using as many hands as you would like, for a total of 30 rounds.
Other requirements are things like demonstrating impeccable firearm safety standards while handling firearms and simulators Each class also has a written evaluation.
If for any reason you currently have any trouble shooting these qualifications, do not worry! You are hiring us to train you to be able to shoot these qualifications if you attend any of our basic classes. You are hiring us to train you to be able to teach others to be able to shoot these qualifications if you attend any of our instructor classes! While we cannot guarantee you will be able to shoot the mandatory prequalification courses of fire after our instruction, nor do we offer any money back if we are unable to teach you how to shoot these qualifications, we are highly successful at teaching candidates to be able to shoot these qualifications! If you do it the way we will train you, the way the NRA wants us to train you, you should be fine! Remember this, how crappy of a shot does someone need to be before we say maybe that someone should not be teaching others how to shoot? Without meaning to offend anyone, the requirements listed in NOTE 5 are not competitive requirements. I have teenage male and female marksmen in our shooting club (see High Plains Marksmanship Academy) who shoot far above these qualifications. They do this using the same methods and fundamentals we will be talking about.
Go to the range and see if you can currently shoot at the level of these quals, or better. If you are having any difficulty at all, come to class with an open mind and we will do our best to help you make it happen! We are very proud of our track record of getting people able to shoot these qualifications. We are also very proud of our track record of taking shooters who are highly accomplished marksmen and decreasing their group sizes too!
Contact us at O 575-985-5555, or C 413-626-7778, or training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com to discuss preparing for each shooting qualification, and to answer any questions regarding allowed firearms.
Candidates are urged to bring lunch, drinks, snacks and a cooler each day. Lunchtime each day will be a working lunch to maximize class time productivity. Here is a question for you. If we have ten candidates in a class, and we give everyone from noon till 1:00 pm for lunch, how many of the ten will not make it back until sometime after 1:00? Besides that, we would have to start an hour earlier to make up for the lunch hour. Each candidate will be responsible for cleaning up after themselves. Any candidate who wishes to bring a smoker, and who can properly smoke a moist brisket for all of us in the class to enjoy, oh who am I kidding, as long as they can provide this for the instructors, will receive extra points on all evaluations!
As more candidates register for and pay for an individual class, or classes, or series of classes, the total fee for that class, the classes, or the full series of classes may be reduced incrementally for each candidate.
Successfully completing a Basic class with a qualifying live fire score (see NOTE 5 for live fire requirements) is a prerequisite for attending any corresponding Instructor class! For instance, completing Basic Pistol at Level 4 is a prerequisite for Pistol Instructor. Rifle instructor is similar. Call us 575-985-5555.
When you register for the Pistol Instructor class, you must print Appendix 5 found on the registration page for that class. You must bring this appendix with you to class to be completed by you and by us during the class. We suggest you put it in a ring binder with room for additional materials. Before registering for any classes, click on the HOME link at the top and see the page about our instructors to know what movies you need to watch before attending any of our classes; that is if you want to get any of the HPCC instructor's movie quotes and references!
Feel free to contact us at O 575-985-5555, C 413-626-7778, or training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com to discuss any of the above.
Of the classes we are offering in this series, NRA Credentialing fees apply to PI and PPIHI and any other instructor certification. For the first rating NRA members: $40, Non-Members: $175. Additional Rating Activation fee: NRA Members: $20, Non-Members: $40.00.
HPCC has a minimum number of candidates required to put on any class. Also, NRA requires a minimum of four candidates to conduct any Instructor class or CRSO class.
The deposit for each series will be due once a series has the minimum number of registered candidates. Please do not make any payments, or deposits until we call you. However, registration for each series will close no later than 4 weeks prior to the series start date. If by the registration close date, the series does not have enough candidates, the series will be cancelled, or rescheduled to a later timeframe, and no deposits will be collected.
HPCC will always refund any fees collected on the rare occasion where we are forced to cancel a class. Refunds are not offered for no-show candidates. Reschedules can sometimes be offered if requested far enough in advance. However, we cannot guarantee they will be offered in the same location without being rescheduled to several months later.
NRA student materials are included with the fee for each class, or series of classes and will be provided to each candidate. The fee for each basic class includes one session lasting two hours of live fire range time and coaching; this is when the NRA live fire qualification for each series will be attempted. Any candidate requiring additional range time, or range days to shoot the NRA required qualification will be responsible for paying any additional range fees.
Candidates should bring a .22 caliber pistol with open, or iron sights and sufficient ammunition to fire the required qualification for the basic pistol classes. Center fire pistols with open, or iron sights are allowed, but rimfire is suggested. HPCC will bring loaner pistols for the .22 qualifications that are very conducive to these courses of fire, you supply your .22 ammo.
Candidates will bring a centerfire pistol and sufficient ammunition to fire the more advanced courses of fire.
NRA allows optics, but we do not allow optics. Call us to discuss why we only allow iron, or open sights and why that could be a significant advantage to you.
All firearms and ammunition must meet the approval of the HPCC training team. NRA has live fire prequalification requirements for each Instructor class. The live fire will usually be conducted in the evening after classroom training, so those days may be a little longer than the scheduled 9:00 am to 5:00 pm class days; please plan accordingly.
This is not exact, but in general the .22 prequals look like this:
Pistol Instructor candidates, among other requirements, will need to be able to shoot a twenty shot, slow fire, six-inch group at fifteen yards, standing, unsupported, with open or iron sights, no optics, using as many hands as you would like. Rifle Instructor candidates, among other requirements, will need to be able to shoot a ten shot, slow fire, four and a half-inch group at twenty-five yards, in bench rest, in prone and in standing unsupported, with open or iron sights, no optics, using as many hands as you would like, for a total of 30 rounds.
Other requirements are things like demonstrating impeccable firearm safety standards while handling firearms and simulators Each class also has a written evaluation.
If for any reason you currently have any trouble shooting these qualifications, do not worry! You are hiring us to train you to be able to shoot these qualifications if you attend any of our basic classes. You are hiring us to train you to be able to teach others to be able to shoot these qualifications if you attend any of our instructor classes! While we cannot guarantee you will be able to shoot the mandatory prequalification courses of fire after our instruction, nor do we offer any money back if we are unable to teach you how to shoot these qualifications, we are highly successful at teaching candidates to be able to shoot these qualifications! If you do it the way we will train you, the way the NRA wants us to train you, you should be fine! Remember this, how crappy of a shot does someone need to be before we say maybe that someone should not be teaching others how to shoot? Without meaning to offend anyone, the requirements listed in NOTE 5 are not competitive requirements. I have teenage male and female marksmen in our shooting club (see High Plains Marksmanship Academy) who shoot far above these qualifications. They do this using the same methods and fundamentals we will be talking about.
Go to the range and see if you can currently shoot at the level of these quals, or better. If you are having any difficulty at all, come to class with an open mind and we will do our best to help you make it happen! We are very proud of our track record of getting people able to shoot these qualifications. We are also very proud of our track record of taking shooters who are highly accomplished marksmen and decreasing their group sizes too!
Contact us at O 575-985-5555, or C 413-626-7778, or training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com to discuss preparing for each shooting qualification, and to answer any questions regarding allowed firearms.
Candidates are urged to bring lunch, drinks, snacks and a cooler each day. Lunchtime each day will be a working lunch to maximize class time productivity. Here is a question for you. If we have ten candidates in a class, and we give everyone from noon till 1:00 pm for lunch, how many of the ten will not make it back until sometime after 1:00? Besides that, we would have to start an hour earlier to make up for the lunch hour. Each candidate will be responsible for cleaning up after themselves. Any candidate who wishes to bring a smoker, and who can properly smoke a moist brisket for all of us in the class to enjoy, oh who am I kidding, as long as they can provide this for the instructors, will receive extra points on all evaluations!
As more candidates register for and pay for an individual class, or classes, or series of classes, the total fee for that class, the classes, or the full series of classes may be reduced incrementally for each candidate.
Successfully completing a Basic class with a qualifying live fire score (see NOTE 5 for live fire requirements) is a prerequisite for attending any corresponding Instructor class! For instance, completing Basic Pistol at Level 4 is a prerequisite for Pistol Instructor. Rifle instructor is similar. Call us 575-985-5555.
When you register for the Pistol Instructor class, you must print Appendix 5 found on the registration page for that class. You must bring this appendix with you to class to be completed by you and by us during the class. We suggest you put it in a ring binder with room for additional materials. Before registering for any classes, click on the HOME link at the top and see the page about our instructors to know what movies you need to watch before attending any of our classes; that is if you want to get any of the HPCC instructor's movie quotes and references!
Feel free to contact us at O 575-985-5555, C 413-626-7778, or training@highplainsconcealedcarry.com to discuss any of the above.