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AF-Odin wrote:: Will make for an exciting story about their class.

Now that's for sure!

mloamiller wrote:As far as I know, there are no DPS requirements as to when the proficiency is done

Is that correct? If so, what are your thoughts as to the best time to do it?

All good answers so far to your questions. You are correct in that there is no requirement for one to preceed the other.

Normally I will conduct the classroom portion first, and include a fair amount of dry fire practice as well as reloading techniques & correcting malfunctions using dummy rounds. Using PowerPoint works well for me to teach some of the topics, however some things are (in my opinion) better done hands-on for skills retention. In the end, you'll have to weight what works best for your teaching methodology, client base, & range coordinations. I'm (usually) able to use a private range, so deconfliction with other instructors or the general public rarely is an issue. However, there have been times with other non-CHL courses that an impending thunderstorm resulted in a classroom-range-classroom flow.