Intermediate Shotgun

Once you've mastered our Defensive shotgun skills, the Intermediate Shotgun Course will continue down the path of making you a master of the shotgun.  Additional shooting techniques and more complex situations will challenge you, allowing you to take hostage rescue shots and shots at ranges out to 100 yards, using both buckshot and slugs.  your skills will be put to the test in ever-more realistic and stressful live-fire simulators and range drills.  Stress inoculation and dynamic situations will prepare you to face the intense stress of a lethal encounter.  The course concludes with the Intermediate Shotgun Skills Test, a fun and challenging test of your abilities, and a tool for measuring your progress.

In this course, you will learn:
-The sul position and how to use it
-Long-distance shooting
-Shooting while moving
-Responding to a threat to the side or rear
-Additional close-quarters shooting techniques
-Rapid shoot/no-shoot decision making
-One-handed and support-hand shooting
-Transferring the weapon between hands
-Transitioning to handgun
-Hostage-rescue shots

Course Prerequisites:
Silver or better rating on the Standard Shotgun Skills Test, completion of Defensive handgun I (or an equivalent course from another major firearms school).

Course Requirements:
Semi-auto or pump-action shotgun with sling, 400 rounds of ammunition (at least 100 rounds of buckshot and 75 slugs)

Course Cost:
$500