Extreme Exigency Firearms Training
and Foundation Shooting Park
“Home of the Armed Barbers”
When the moment comes to choose whether or not to be a victim, the urgency to prepare has passed…
The Extreme Exigency Training Academy is centrally located in southern Illinois on a 40 acre shooting park with a climate controlled, hybrid indoor shooting range and new 2,000 sq. ft. training facility.
We’ve designed our own state-of-the-art Hogan’s Alley and Tactical Hallway training environments, complete with their own cast of lifelike criminals and scenarios. These spaces provide a highly immersive and realistic setting for honing your decision-making skills under pressure.
Additionally, our electronic shoot/don’t shoot tactical shooting gallery brings cutting-edge technology to your training. With scenarios ranging from high-stakes hostage situations to split-second judgment calls, this interactive system sharpens your ability to discern threats and respond appropriately.
Each session is designed to simulate real-world stressors while emphasizing safety, accuracy, and critical thinking, making it the ultimate tool for improving your tactical proficiency.
What is Extreme Exigency?
Extreme Exigency is the only time we are justified in using force likely to cause death or great bodily harm. The only time use of a concealed carry firearm is justified.
Our Membership Offering
We proudly partner with the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) to bring you USCCA Membership benefits including education, training, and Self-Defense Liability Insurance.
Get Your Illinois FOID Card Here!
The Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) Card identifies a person as eligible to possess/acquire firearms and firearm ammunition as part of a public safety initiative in the State of Illinois. To get a FOID Card you must:
- Have a valid Illinois driver’s license or state identification card.
- Have a head and shoulder photograph taken within the last 30 days.
- Not have a civil no-contact order, order of protection or firearms restraining order.
- Not have a forcible felony conviction with the last 20 years.
- Not have an addiction to narcotics.
- Been a patient in a mental institution or facility in past 5 years AND intellectually or developmentally disabled AND 2 or more DUI’s
You need a FOID card to:
- Hunt with firearms.
- Possess and acquire firearms and ammunition.
- Purchase muzzleloaders, blackpowder firearms, stun guns and Tasers.
OUR MISSION…
To reduce the probability of victimization by providing high quality professional personal prevention and firearm home/travel and concealed carry protection education programs.
There are Wolves, there are Sheep, and then there are Sheep Dogs.
We focus on personal safety strategies, prevention techniques, and comprehensive training in firearm handling and use for home, travel, and concealed carry protection.
Through expert instruction and practical knowledge, our goal is to enhance your self confidence and readiness to responsibly protect yourself and your loved ones.
Our combination of prevention-focused education and situational awareness training seeks to promote safety, self-reliance, and peace of mind.
Our Most Popular Classes…
E-learning
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FREE WORKSHOPS
“The Predator’s Playbook”
CHOOSE NOT TO BE A VICTIM
In today’s changing times with predators, threats, terrorism, and ISIS everywhere, personal safety has become a top concern for everyone.
Predators have extended their victimization to our neighborhoods, communities, school, workplace, and our places of worship.
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HOLSTER A HERO
FREE CLASSES FOR OUR VETERANS
As a way to say THANK YOU to our Veterans – We are honored to provide a FREE Illinois concealed Carry Class for our Veterans.
We provide everything including firearms and ammunition.
Pre-registration is required. Click below to email us, or call 618-629-3422
What is Hogan’s Alley and where did it come from?
Participants learn the latest tactical flashlight shooting and room searching techniques and they are immersed in a realistic scenario where they are expected to incorporate basic searching tactics, tactically clear hallways and rooms and deploy their firearm skills with home invasion predators.
Rapid Deployment Drills – Students will make split second decisive firearm deployment extreme exigency decisions as they encounter armed and unarmed predators.
Extreme Exigency borrowed it from the FBI and a popular 1984 video game released by Nintendo.
Hogan’s Alley was a shooting range on the grounds of the Special Police School at Camp Perry, a training facility for the National Guard of the United States. The Special Police School closed during World War II.
In 1987, approximately three years after the release of the video game Hogan’s Alley, the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia established a small, simulated city called Hogan’s Alley to serve as a venue for their training operations.
As it turns out the true name originated in a comic strip of the late 1800s. The alley was located in a rough neighborhood, so the name fit.
Ultimately!
Our academy’s indoor Hogan’s Alley/Hallway and shooting gallery improves firearms skills and helps develop better decisive moment of extreme exigency decisions which in turn, we make our communities safer by protecting ourselves, our families, our homes, and ultimately our communities and America.
GOD BLESS THE USA!!
TRAINING FOR EVERYONE!
We are a full service training academy and shooting park located in Benton, Illinois which provides certified high quality concealed carry and personal firearms home protection education programs.
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