Minnesota P.O.S.T. Board Approved Credits Are Available to Qualified Personnel


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COMBINATION COURSES

Tactical Handgun/ Urban Rifle
2, 3 and 4 day courses available
These courses are designed to develop weapon proficiency and handling skills with a urban rifle and handgun. These courses focus on learning the fundamentals to effectively deploy either weapon system to survive a deadly force encounter.


HANDGUN COURSES

2-Day Advanced Concealed Carry Course
2 day Course
Location: DPMS Training Center, St. Cloud MN
This course is designed for individuals that carry a concealed weapon in the course of their employment or for self-defense. During this course students will learn shooting techniques and survival tactics that will greatly enhance their ability to survive a deadly force encounter.

Optional Low Light/No Light Training Course

Basic Reactive Pistol
3 day Course
This basic reactive shooting course introduces students to the principles and techniques of reactive shooting.  Students will learn to apply reactive shooting techniques to enhance their weapon handling skills, marksmanship and engagement speeds.

Reactive Combat Pistol/Optional Carbine Course
Intermediate/ Advanced
5 day Course
This reactive shooting course is a very intense course that will enhance your weapon handling skills, marksmanship and engagement speeds.  This reactive shooting course is the pinnacle of high speed weapons training.  

Advanced Handgun Instructor Development Course
This course is designed specifically for firearms instructors who want to enhance their professional instructing abilities with advanced firearms training techniques.  This program requires a high degree of motivation and participation from each student.  This is not designed to be a beginning shooting school.  Students who attend the Instructor Development Course must already hold a firearms instructor certificate or equivalent title.

Advanced Combat Pistol
4 day Course
This course is for individuals that carry a handgun as a primary weapon for protection in high-risk/hostile environments.  This is a very intense course that will enhance your weapon handling skills, marksmanship and engagement speeds.
 


RIFLE/CARBINE COURSES

Basic Urban Rifle
1 and 2 day classes available
This course is designed to develop basic weapon proficiency and handling skills with a urban style rifle. Instruction focuses on fundamentals to effectively operate the carbine rifle out to 100 yards.

Advanced Urban Rifle Operators Course
2 and 3 day Courses Available
This intense course is designed to develop weapon proficiency and advance handling skills with a carbine rifle. This course focuses on the techniques and tactics needed to effectively deploy a carbine rifle in urban settings from CQB ranges out to ranges of 100 yards.

Urban Carbine Instructor Course
4 day Course
This course is designed to develop instructor skills needed to effectively teach students in the operation and tactical deployment of the carbine rifle in close quarter urban environments out to distances of 100 yards.


SHOTGUN COURSES

Basic Defensive Shotgun
1 Day Course

This course is designed to develop safe gun handling skills and shooting fundamentals with a shotgun. Students will learn how to properly handle and deploy a shotgun for personal protection.
 


MP-5/UMP/SMG Operators Course
5 day Course/40 hours
This course is designed for tactical team members, uniformed patrol officers, investigators and military personnel that deploys a SMG carbine during the course of their duties.  This is a complete operators course that covers all aspects of SMG operations.

MP-5/UMP/SMG Advanced Operators Course
3 day Course/30 hours
This advanced course is designed for experienced tactical team members, uniformed patrol officers, investigators and military personnel that have already graduated from a basic operators course or holds a current SMG certification from their agency and wishes to train to advanced operating levels.

MP-5/SMG Operators Refresher Course
1 day /8 hours

This one day course is designed be a comprehensive refresher course on SMG weapon procedures and shooting techniques.  Students will also shoot a qualification course to re-qualify with their SMG.  This course is ideal for officers that deploy a SMG during high risk patrol functions.

SMG Reactive Shooting
2 day Course
This reactive shooting course introduces students to the principles and techniques of reactive shooting with a submachine gun.  This course is specifically designed to increase the operators skill level with identifying, tracking and accurately engaging threats at realistic speeds.  Operators will learn to apply reactive shooting techniques to greatly enhance their weapon handling skills, marksmanship and engagement speeds.


TACTICAL COURSES

Ballistic Bunker Operators Course
1 day/10 hours

This course is designed for law enforcement and military personnel that deploys ballistic bunkers as a tactical tool in high risk environments. This is the most comprehensive ballistic bunker course available in the country and is designed to develop advanced bunker tactics needed to safely and effectively deploy a ballistic bunker.

Advanced High Risk Warrant Tactics
3 day Course
This course is designed to teach proven team deployment tactics to tactical officers during high risk warrant service.  Officers will learn to work closely as a team to safely recon, plan, approach, breach, search and secure buildings.  This course also covers advanced team movements during building clearing techniques including covert, dynamic, slow and hostage rescue style movements.