Advance Your Skill

The Shooting Sports Center is committed to providing firearms instruction in a safe environment to meet our customer’s needs.  Our detailed, hands-on handgun training is provided in a stress free environment with classes that are sized to allow you get all the personal attention you need.  All of our instructors are certified through the Smith & Wesson Academy Firearms Instructor course that is licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education.

• Bullseye - 4 Hours - $25
  For enthusiasts who want to learn the fine art of target shooting, the Center periodically offers a 'Bulls Eye Clinic'. A course is led by internationally-ranked competitive shooter Bill Porter who will orient and instruct participants in the finer points of target shooting. 
  Instructor – Bill Porter

• First Shots
  First Shots provides opportunities for newcomers to give handgun shooting a try. First Shots participants receive a comprehensive introduction to handgun shooting that includes safety, local ownership requirements, shooting fundamentals, hands-on instruction and how and where to continue. The events are listed at www.firstshots.org.

  • 3 Hours
  • Free
  • Instructor: Ken Frisbie
  • Limited Enrollment to 20
    
     
• Civilian Courses - Massachusetts Carry Permit (LTC) Click Here To Register
  Students will learn basic shooting fundamentals along with safe handling and storage of firearms. Students will also be provided with up-to-date information on the current firearms laws of Massachusetts.

  Upon completion the individual will have the proper certification to apply for a Massachusetts handgun permit.

• Personal Defense Courses
  • Handgun Technique - $150 Click Here
    plus ammunition purchase and 7 Hours – offered monthly
    Instructor – Ernie Graziano, Ken Frisbie and Ken Tingley
    
     
  • Dynamics of Personal Protection / Intro to Home Defense - $175
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    plus ammunition purchase. 8 Hours – offered monthly
    Instructor – Ken Frisbie ,Ernie Graziano, and Ken Tingley
    
     
  • Live - Fire Judgment Training - $175 Click Here
    plus ammunition purchase. 8 hours – Bi - Monthly
    Instructor – Ken Frisbie, Ernie Graziano and Ken Tingley
    
     
  • Instinctive Point Shooting - $175 Click Here
    plus ammunition purchase. 8 hours – Bi - Monthly
    Instructor – Michael Rayburn
    
     
  • Concealed Carry - $300 Click Here
    plus ammunition purchase and 2 Days – offered quarterly
    Instructor – Ken Frisbie, Ernie Graziano and Ken Tingley
    
     
  • Reduced Light For Personal Defense - $175 Click Here
    plus ammunition purchase. 8 hours– offered Quarterly
    Instructor – Ken Frisbie
    
     
  • Tactics & Techniques - $600 Click Here
    Ammunition is included. 
    Instructor – Bill Porter

• Leagues/Competitions
  • International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
    Defensive pistol shooting as a sport is quite simply the use of practical equipment including full charge service ammunition to solve simulated "real world" self-defensive scenarios.
  • Shooters competing in Defensive Pistol events are required to use practical handguns and holsters that are truly suitable for self-defense use. 
  • The Smith & Wesson Shooting Sports Center is host to the IDPA Winter Nationals in late February.
  • IDPA competes at the Smith and Wesson SSC on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 6pm. They also compete on the fourth Saturday at 9am. Please call ahead for detailed information.
  • International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
  • This new and exciting style of sport shooting had its origins in California in the early '50s. It quickly spread over the next few years to other continents including Europe, Australia, Central and South America, and Africa.
  • IPSC meets at The Smith & Wesson Shooting Sports Center the 1st Sunday of every month through april at 8am.