1st Defense CWP

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1st Defense CWP We provide training for Basic skills, Concealed Weapon Permit training, after CWP training, Urban Tactical Training, Protecting your House of Worship and more!

Brad Doan the instructor is...
SLED Certified CWP Instructor
USCCA Partner and Certified Instructor
NRA Certified Pistol Instructor
NRA Certified Range Safety Officer
NRA Certified personal protection in the home instructor
NRA personal protection outside the home instructor
Certified to teach defensive hand gun 1 and defensive hand gun 2,
Close combat pistol training

He's Licensed, Certified and ready to Train!

10/11/2026
Lil mans Sniper practice payed off
10/08/2026

Lil mans Sniper practice payed off

Great day of beginners pistol CWP Training
09/19/2026

Great day of beginners pistol CWP Training

08/19/2026

Your draw is the part of the fight you control completely. It costs nothing to train and almost nobody does it.

SAFETY FIRST. Unload the weapon. Remove all am******on from the room. Check the chamber. Then check it again. Point at a safe backstop that would stop a round.

THE DRILL — 10 minutes
Set a par time of 1.5 seconds.
Concealed, hands relaxed at your sides, garment down.
On the beep: clear the garment, build your full firing grip in the holster, drive straight to the target, front sight/dot on target, press.

15 reps concealed.
15 reps strong hand only.

100 reps this week. Comment DONE when you've logged them.

06/22/2026

There’s a clip going around of a guy at the range drawing from concealment and putting fast rounds on target.

Then a cop standing behind him says, “Yeah… but mine were all headshots.”

And that comment exposes one of the biggest misunderstandings people have about self-defense shooting.

Headshots are not the flex people think they are.

Anybody can hit a head if you give them enough time. But self-defense is not about taking your time and stacking perfect holes on a paper target.

It’s about stopping a threat as fast as humanly possible.

So I put it on a timer.

Headshots vs. center mass.

At close distance, the headshots were slower and messier. At ten yards, pushing for the head caused rounds to come completely off target.

And in real life, a miss is not just a miss.

It’s a wall.

A car.

A house.

Or an innocent person who had nothing to do with the fight.

That’s why responsible self-defense training focuses on acceptable accuracy, combat accuracy, and putting fast, effective hits into the area most likely to stop the threat.

The goal is not to kill.

The goal is to stop the threat and go home.

Was a great day for some CWP and self protection training..these fellas are on the rite path
04/19/2026

Was a great day for some CWP and self protection training..these fellas are on the rite path

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1581 U.S. Highway 178
Swansea, SC
29160

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