Tactical Shotgun for Home Defense

This class is designed to quickly bring students to a high level of proficiency in the art of using a shotgun for personal or home defense.

Topics Covered:

• Selecting the shotgun, ammunition, and accessories
• Buckshot patterning for optimal performance
• Rapid target acquisition
• Methods to reduce the recoil of the shotgun
• Proper shooting techniques
• Loading/unloading/reloading

Equipment list:

• Reliable pump action or semi-automatic shotgun (barrel lengths under 20 inches are preferable, shotgun must have a stock). No detachable magazine-fed shotguns.
• Eye/ear protection
• Method of storing extra shells on your shotgun or on your person (side saddle, dump bag, pockets, etc.)
• 125 rounds of BIRDSHOT for your shotgun
• 15 rounds of BUCKSHOT for your shotgun
• Clothing suitable for outdoor weather

This is an outdoor range. Please dress for the weather. Pack a lunch and drinking water.

Students must also pay a $20 range fee to the range hosts in cash upon arrival.

While there are no pre-requisites for this course, students should be able to safely operate their shotguns (load, unload, fire) before attending this class.

Minimum enrollment for this class is 10 people. If fewer than 10 students register within 30 days of the class date, the class will be cancelled and you will get a full refund. You will also receive a full refund if the instructor is ill or subject to travel delays that would prevent him from teaching.

If you request a refund after registering, I will provide that refund as future class credit for any of the classes I teach. Barring exceptional circumstances, no refunds will be issued within 30 days of the class date.

Instructor Bio:

Greg Ellifritz is Active Response Training's President and Primary Instructor.

Greg recently retired after serving 25 years as a police officer. During his tenure, Greg spent 13 years as the full-time tactical training officer for a central Ohio police department. In that training position, he was responsible for developing and instructing all of the in-service training for his 55-officer agency. In addition to the training position, he also served as patrol officer, rangemaster, weapons armorer, bike patrol officer, bike patrol coordinator, sniper, and field training officer during the course of his career.

He instructed classes at the Tactical Defense Institute for 17 years and served as a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, active shooter, impact weapons, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.

Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 80 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty topics. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has successfully completed more than 4,000 hours of documented formal training with the leading firearms, empty hand fighting, and edged weapons instructors in the country.

Greg additionally served as an adjunct instructor for the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy, teaching firearms, defensive tactics, bike patrol, knife defense, and physical fitness topics. He has taught firearms and self defense classes at the national and international level through The American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, The International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Rangemaster Tactical Conference, and Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police.

He has a master’s degree in Public Policy and Management with a focus on criminal justice policy issues and has written for several publications and websites including: ‘The Firearms Instructor,” “Ohio Police Chief,” “Combat Handguns,” Survivalblog.com, “Concealed Carry Magazine,” Primedia's "Personal & Home Defense Annual," "Recoil Magazine," and “American Handgunner.”

Greg can be reached through his website at www.activeresponsetraining.net

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