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Pistol Foundations: Safe, Confident Gun Handling

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Where it all begins. Essential gun safety & marksmanship skills.
Adults: $299 • Returnees: $210 • Graduates (of Pistol Foundations Classes): $275
Description: A deliberate, safety-first introduction for beginning shooters and those seeking clarity. Students learn safe handling, awareness, fundamentals, and responsible decision-making. No experience required.

Pistol Skills II: Practical Skills from the Holster

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Designed for returning students ready to deepen fundamentals.
Bring Your Own Gear: $210 • Your Pistol, Our Ammo: $260 • The Works: $316
Description: Pistol Skills II builds on the fundamentals learned in Pistol Foundations. Students practice drawing from the holster, shooting while moving, and shooting from cover while developing calm and structured decision making.

Pistol Practice Lab: Build your skills!

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 3 – 4 Hours • Overview: A relaxed alumni range session to help you stay current, reinforce fundamentals, and enjoy more trigger time in a supportive environment.
Bring Your Own Gear: $98.07 • Your Pistol, Our Ammo: $148.59 • The Works: $198.12
Description: Here’s a chance to put your new skills to use in a supportive, low-pressure environment alongside fellow Live Fire Learning graduates. Designed for alumni of Pistol Foundations and Pistol Skill Builder, this session offers dedicated trigger time on a variety of thoughtfully designed courses of fire—some familiar, some new—all intended to reinforce safe handling, awareness, and confidence.

Defensive Shotgun: Practical Safety & Use

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Intro to safe shotgun handling, operation for home & personal defense.
Bring Your Own Gear: $210 • Your Shotgun, Our Ammo: $260 • The Works: $316
Description: This highly engaging course focuses on practical shotgun use in defensive situations. Students begin by patterning their shotgun at varying distances to analyze shot spread and impact. Participants then sight their shotgun using slugs. Instruction includes stance, recoil management, safe movement, snap shooting and follow up shots.

Beyond the Pistol: Rifle Confidence Lab

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Engaging intro to action rifle shooting in a controlled environment.
Bring Your Own Gear: $210 • Your Rifle, Our Ammo: $260 • The Works: $316
Description: This course goes beyond the basics of rifle shooting and focuses on practical rifle skills. Students will practice snapshot shooting, understanding bullet trajectory, speed reloads and shooting from unconventional positions. Training includes use of cover and concealment, movement and engaging multiple targets rapidly.

Private Instruction & Small Group Sessions

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 Hours • Overview: Personalized training sessions covering pistol, rifle or shotgun instruction on a private outdoor range. Ideal for individuals, couples or families.
1 Person: $900 • 2 People: $1250 • 3 People: $1575 • 4 People: $1850 • 5 People: $2125 • See additional pricing for up to 10 people
Description: Private Firearms Coaching. Personalized. Calm. Built entirely around you. Not everyone learns best in a group setting. Private coaching offers a more focused, flexible experience—paced to your comfort level, your goals, and your questions.

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Pistol Foundations: Safe, Confident Gun Handling

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Where it all begins. Essential gun safety & marksmanship skills.
SAVE 10%

Defensive Shotgun: Practical Safety & Use

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Intro to safe shotgun handling, operation for home & personal defense.
SAVE 10%
Discount applied to this item at checkout. Must be combined with Pistol Foundations: Safe, Confident Gun Handling.

Beyond the Pistol: Rifle Confidence Lab

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 5 – 6 Hours • Overview: Engaging intro to action rifle shooting in a controlled environment.
SAVE 10%
Discount applied to this item at checkout. Must be combined with Pistol Foundations: Safe, Confident Gun Handling.

Prop Gun Set Safety Workshop

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 8 Hours • Overview: Learn just how Hollywood’s shootouts look so good. And remain safe!
Film Crew (Includes Blanks, classroom materials, new shooters guide & some cool swag!): $380
Description: Prop Gun Safety workshops are crafted to educate and empower the current and next generation of entertainment Armorers, meeting increasing production demands while improving over all safety for our crews and cast alike. We serve a diverse range of entertainment industry professionals, from Property Masters and their Assistants to both new and established studio Gun Wranglers.

Prop Gun Set Safety “Gun Wrangler” Course

Ages: 13 – 85 • Duration: 10 Hours • Overview: Take your Prop Gun skills to the next level!
Film Crew: $995
Description: Prop Gun Safety workshops are crafted to educate and empower the current and next generation of entertainment Armorers, meeting increasing production demands while improving over all safety for our crews and cast alike. We serve a diverse range of entertainment industry professionals, from Property Masters and their Assistants to both new and established studio Gun Wranglers.

People About Us

Two of my girlfriends and I attended Dutch’s class. What an absolutely fantastic experience. Dutch and his team are great instructors. I took the Pistol 1 class and left with so much knowledge and feel that through their explanations and fine tuning, I became so much better as the day progressed. I cannot wait to go back. A+ experience. A+ community building. A+ instruction. Thanks so much, Dutch and team!

Miranda S.

Best thing I’ve done for myself in years! I went in a bit nervous, but with the instructor, Dutch Merrick, with so much experience, knowledge, patience and absolutely supportive training, I came out feeling confident empowered and even proud of myself. I can’t imagine a better place to learn about pistols and rifles, as Live Fire Learning.
I can’t wait to go back and take more classes.
❤️

Jami P.

I’ve now taken two classes with Dutch and his team, and I couldn’t be happier – Dutch and his team are excellent teachers, and they make learning fun and safe. I can’t recommend them highly enough, the pistol foundations class was the perfect place to start for somebody with little or no experience to start. These classes are the perfect way to learn a new skill and have a good time while doing it, with teachers that go above and beyond. And it’s an excellent value for the price!

Eric Buron

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