Candy S. Petticord

Northpointe Training's Chief Instructor, Candy Petticord, has been ecstatically married to her bestest bud, Jim, for 30+ years and they have twelve Pettipeeps, all of whom are skilled shooters.

Candy began her shooting journey when she received her CCW Permit and realized, with a ridiculously high amount of clarity and discomfort, that a day’s training and a plastic card from the Sheriff’s Office doth not a skilled and/or competent shooter make. Having been heavily influenced by her CCW Instructor on the critical importance of life-long training for CCW/CHL holders, Candy firmly believes that everyone using a firearm or carrying a firearm for self-defense must seek out and commit to engaging in quality and on-going firearms training. She also ardently believes that educated, trained, law-abiding, and skilled “good guys” with firearms make for safer communities. With this in mind, she has avidly pursued firearms and self-defense trainings for herself and her family, and she is enthusiastic about sharing with others the awesome trainings, wisdom, and guidance she has received.

Candy is a Certified NRA Training Counselor, an NRA & USCCA Certified Instructor in multiple disciplines, a Rangemaster Certified Pistol Instructor, the Training Coordinator for Buckeye Firearms Association, a Certified NRA CRSO and Refuse To Be A Victim® Instructor, a SABRE Pepper Spray Certified Instructor, a U.S. Law Shield Certified Firearms Instructor, an HSI Certified Medical Instructor in various fields, a Chapter Facilitator for three Ohio Chapters of A Girl & A Gun Women's Shooting League, an IBDD Certified Instructor, a MUNIO Self-Defense Certified Instructor, a former Chapter Leader for The Well Armed Woman, a board member for FASTER Saves Lives, the Ohio State Director for the DC Project – Women For Gun Rights, a member of the IDPA, a Life Member of the NRA, and a Life Member of Buckeye Firearms Association. She is also owner and Chief Instructor for Northpointe Training, LLC, and a dealer for Laser Ammo and MantisX firearm training systems and MUNIO Self-Defense Kubaton Keychains.

Besides traditional firearms training, Candy also has training in defensive knife, personal self-defense, tactical rifle & shotgun, impact weapons, non-traditional self-defense techniques, Image Based Decisional Drills, active killer response, church security team training, home defense strategies, first aid and tactical medical response, MUNIO keychain self-defense, and oc pepper spray use and she is a published author.

Northpointe Training, LLC is truly a family affair as Candy’s loving husband, Jim, and her amazing son, Michael, are also certified firearms instructors, and her son, Daniel, and daughters, Abby and Naomi, are exceptionally talented marksPettipeeps.