Master Defensive Firearm Techniques Safely
Defensive Shotgun/Pistol Class
This is a NON-NRA Defensive Shotgun/Pistol course that is at least 4 hours in length. Course instruction will take place on the range. This course is only conducted by certified instructors. The required prerequisite for students to attend this course is to have successfully completed a South Dakota Enhanced Permit to Carry Concealed & our Defensive Pistol I classes.
While attending this course, students will learn about:
- Fundamental rules for safe gun handling.
- Criteria for selecting quality holsters for concealed carry.
- Criteria for selecting a quality defensive shotgun.
- Shooting Positions.
- Ready Positions.
- How to safely draw your pistol from a shooting side belt holster & engage a target.
- Fundamentals of shooting a defensive pistol & shotgun.
- How to safely transition from the defensive shotgun to your holstered pistol.
- Students will be shooting law enforcement-styled courses of fire.
- Students should expect to shoot 150 rounds of pistol ammunition and 40 rounds of shotgun ammunition.
Defensive Pistol/Shotgun IV Training - Courses of fire are designed to help participants become familiar with using their pistol & shotgun while enhancing their ability to react in a defensive situation. Each shooting drill will start with the pistol in a shooting side belt holster that allows for one-handed holstering.
Successful students will earn:
Schlueter Firearms Instruction Training Certificate of Completion for:
Defensive Pistol/Shotgun IV
- Pistol
- 3 magazines minimum
- 50 rounds (minimum) of Pistol Ammunition New Factory only.
- 10 ROUNDS OF INERT TRAINING/DUMMY ROUNDS.
- **Defensive Shotgun**
- 25 rounds (minimum) of trap loads - Shotgun Ammunition New Factory only.
- 15 rounds of 00 Buckshot - Shotgun Ammunition New Factory only.
- 10 ROUNDS OF INERT TRAINING/DUMMY ROUNDS.
- Holsters (required) - The shooting side outside the waistband holster must allow for one-handed reholstering.
- Magazine/Speed loader pouches (optional)
- Eye Proteciton
- Hearing Protection - Electronic Earmuffs Recommended
- Ball Cap
- Defensive shotgun rentals are available; contact us for more information.
Students defensive shotguns should have the following characteristics:
- Action types may be pump or semi-auto
- A barrel between 18½ and 21 inches with an improved cylinder or changeable choke system
- A sighting system consisting of a front sight bead, rifle sights, or ghost rings.
- The defensive shotgun must be capable of holding a minimum of three rounds of ammunition.
- Have an attached sling; this will allow the student the ability to sling the shotgun during transition drills
- Students need to be able to safely operate their own defensive shotgun during the following functions: LOADING, UNLOADING, ENGAGING SAFETY WHILE THE SHOTGUN IS SHOULDERED, AND CLEARING STOPPAGES.
Open Enrollment Classes:
$90.00(plus tax)*
*Pricing may change at any time; students who sign up and pay for any open enrollment class prior to price changes will receive the class for the price they signed up for.
Private Classes: $200.00 (plus tax) per student**
**Class dates are subject to scheduling. Alternate locations are possible but subject to additional fees.
Open enrollment dates to be announced
Private Instruction - To be scheduled on a case-by-case basis.
We offer the South Dakota Enhanced Permit to Carry Concealed Class in Sioux Falls
One of the best classes in the region is available: SD Enhanced Permit to Carry Concealed Class - Brookings
Enhanced Permit Class - Mitchell
Cost
- Open Enrollment dates: $134.99 (plus tax)**
- ​**Pricing may change at any time, students who sign up and pay for any open enrollment class prior to price changes will receive the class for the price they signed up for.
- ***EFFECTIVE 09/30/2023 DEFENSIVE PISTOL I, II, III, IV and RIFLE/PISTOL CLASSES WILL BE PRICED AT: $134.99+tax
Private Class Options:
- Private Classes: $200.00(plus tax) per student * ** ***
*Private Class dates are subject to scheduling, approval by the instructor.
**Private Classes - Students may be responsible for additional fees, such as class room & range fees.
***Alternate locations may be possible but subject to approval by the instructor.
COURSE LENGTH:
5 to 6 Hours
​Schlueter Firearms Instruction in Sioux Falls