Courses and Training
At Strategic Firearm Training we work to equip you with the essential, critical skills and knowledge necessary to protect yourself and your loved ones confidently.
Whether you are a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, our self-defense courses provide the perfect blend of practical instruction and vital safety practices. Take the first step towards empowering your personal safety.
WI Conceal Carry Permit (CCW)
Comprehensive CCW training that exceeds the WI requirement. Guaranteed acceptance by WI and allows you to carry in over 30+ states. This is for Wisconsin resident only.
IL Conceal Carry License (CCL)
Comprehensive CCW training that exceeds the WI requirement. Guaranteed acceptance by WI and allows you to carry in over 30+ states. This is for Wisconsin resident only.
Handgun Gear & gadgets: Spend your money wisely
Comprehensive CCW training that exceeds the WI requirement. Guaranteed acceptance by WI and allows you to carry in over 30+ states.
Home Defense - Your Personal Protection plan
Develop a home defense plan. Best practices and tips on securing your home. Learn the mechanics of firearm and ammunition. Learn the legal use deadly force. Learn what to do in the aftermath of a self-defense situation. And more.
It’s your home, protect what you cannot replace.
Non-Lethal Devices: TASER / Stun Guns
Understand the benefits, selection criteria, limitations, and potential legal restrictions of energy weapons such as TASER and Stun Guns. This training includes actual drills that will sharpen your ability to deploy these tools in your delf-defense
Non-Lethal Devices: Projectile Launchers
Understand the benefits, selection criteria, limitations, and potential legal restrictions of projectile launchers. These devices will deploy non-lethal projectiles that will stop or incapacitate your attacker allowing you to escape. Projectiles come in solid and/or bursting pepper. Proven effective. Legal in all 50 states.
Non-Lethal Devices: Pepper Spray
Understand the benefits, selection criteria, limitations, and potential legal restrictions of defensive spray. These devices will deploy non-lethal pepper spray/gel/foam that will stop or incapacitate your attacker allowing you to escape. Defensive sprays can deployed in either a direct or indirect method. Training includes drills that will reinforce your knowledge and build your confidence to deploy these successfully. Proven effective. Legal in all 50 states.
Defensive Shooting I - Basics
Based on the Combat Focus Training method, this class will improve you firearm handling and foundational shooting skills. The focus will be defensive accuracy. Drills will include drawing from the holster and shooting with the objective of understanding the balance of speed v. precision.
Defensive Shooting II
Based on the Combat Focus Training method, this class will improve you firearm handling and foundational shooting skills. Building on Defensive Shooting I we now add movement and multiple target engagement.
Personal Training
Do desire a more personal and informal training session? Want to focus on certain skills development? Prefer to train as a couple? Have a court order issue you need to resolve?
Individualized training is available.
WHERE:
- Five Star Firearms, Zion, IL – This is my primary training range.
- Mission 94, Somers, WI – Shooting topics only can be done at the Mission 94 range in Somers, WI.
Please contact me at 262.705.1826 to discuss your training needs,
Self-Defense Courses
Strategic Firearm Training specializes in comprehensive self-defense courses that encompass essential firearms training. We work to equip you with the critical skills and knowledge necessary to protect yourself and your loved ones confidently. Whether you are a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, our self-defense courses provide the perfect blend of practical instruction and vital safety practices. Take the first step towards empowering your personal safety. Join our self-defense courses in Northeastern Illinois or Southeastern Wisconsin today.
WI CCW (Wisconsin Concealed Carry Weapon)
Instruction: Classroom
Time: 3 Hours
This is a comprehensive course for anyone considering owning or carrying a firearm for self-defense in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Justice has accepted it as complying with the statutory requirements to qualify for the Wisconsin Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) permit.
The WI CCW course teaches universal firearms safety rules and reviews Wisconsin Statutes related to firearms and children in the home, legal use of self-defense, defense of property, and who is prohibited from possessing firearms. We will also walk you through the WI process and prepare you for the permit application. Upon completion of the course, you will earn a certificate.
Nationwide Recognition of the Wisconsin Permit
The Wisconsin permit is accepted in 30 states, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The Wisconsin concealed carry permit allows you to carry a taser gun, Billy club, or stun gun as well, not just a firearm.
CCHD (Conceal Carry and Home Defense)
Instruction: Classroom
Time: 7 Hours
This comprehensive course prepares you to think holistically about how to protect yourself and your family, whether on the streets or in the home.
Topics covered include:
- Develop a Personal and Home Protection Plan
- Self-Defense Firearms Basics
- Defensive Shooting Fundamentals
- Legal Use of Force
- Violent Encounters and Their Aftermath
- Gear and Gadgets
- Non-Lethal Options for Self-Defense
- How to Develop Basic and Advanced Skills
This class is valuable for anyone who wants to understand better what it means to protect yourself in the real world, whether you decide to have a firearm or never to have one.
First Steps - Basic Pistol
Instruction: Classroom and Live-Fire
Time: 3 Hours
This class is designed to provide hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper orientation to one specific pistol action type for classes of four or fewer students. This course is at least three hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot a specific pistol action type.
Topics:
- Safe Firearm Handling and the Big Rules
- Pistol Model Parts and Operation
- Firearm Maintenance and Cleaning
- Ammunition and Calibers
- Shooting Fundamentals
- Basic Shooting Competency
Note: Illinois residents must show a FOID card.
Refuse to Be a Victim
Instruction: Classroom
Time: 4 Hours
This NRA nationally acclaimed “Refuse to Be a Victim®” seminar is not a firearms or self-defense class. It will help you improve your personal safety strategies and provide valuable information you can apply in every area of your life.
The seminar includes classroom instruction on various crime prevention strategies, from criminal psychology to automobile crimes to cybercrime. This is not a firearms instruction course and does not include physical combat or self-defense instruction.
Seminars teach about common weaknesses that criminals may take advantage of and provide a variety of practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-follow corrective measures.
“FBI statistics say 3 out 4 women (75%) will be a victim of a violent crime at some point in their life”.