Will Parker

Freddie Merc’s & Artemis is Veteran owned and operated by Will Parker.

Will Parker is known within the USCCA as one of the top handful of USCCA Instructors, Training Counselors, and Senior Training Counselors in the country. Additionally, Will has taught with Michael Seeklander and Rob Pincus.

Our goal is to teach the members of our community prevention as well as the skills to survive a deadly force encounter. With four decades of experience with firearms, training and honing skills, Will remains a dedicated student himself by regularly attending training from some of the top instructors in the U.S. and across the globe. His knowledge, skills, and abilities are second to none in the Flathead when it comes to the total package of self-defense with a firearm.

Will served in the U.S Navy and Marine Corps for over 25 years specializing in Operations (1986-2011). During his career he was a Special Weapons Sentry, member of the Security Teams and Team Leader, Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor, Strike/Fighter Tactical Instructor, and Weapons Systems Instructor. He first became an instructor in 1994 and has pursued additional teaching credentials and continuing education ever since.

At Freddie Merc’s we are committed to offering our students and customers the best available instruction and customer service in Montana. We have the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities to teach you in prevention (soft skills), defense (hard skills), self-defense law (legal), and help developing your skills in these areas to save your life – physically, morally, legally, and financially. We offer a wide variety of training in the area of self-defense.

Will is a USCCA Senior Training Counselor and Instructor, REEA Diamond Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (DREI), REEA Gold Standard Instructor (GSI), I.C.E. Defensive Firearms Coach, Force Science Analyst, MAG Deadly Force Instructor, NRA Basic Pistol Instructor and Range Safety Officer, and Law of Self-Defense Instructor Program Graduate. He spends hundreds of hours per year training with some of the top instructors in the country, as a student or alongside them co-teaching.

Dedication to our community with the highest quality training available is what we are dedicated to doing. We travel to attend advanced level courses (end user and instructor development) to bring these skills sets back to you. Once or twice annually we bring in outside instructors to teach at our facility (see Hosted Training).

Contact Will today for more information about upcoming classes, additional services, or how to meet your goals. Ask yourself these three questions: - What am I currently capable of doing? - What should I be better at doing? - How do accomplish getting better?

Will has dedicated himself to teaching others violence prevention and to prepare for violence, should it be unavoidable. He dedicates hundreds of continuing education hours per year and strives to be a better educator each day.

• 25-Year Navy & Marine Corps Veteran

• Graduate USMC Weapons & Tactics Instructor (2009)

• Graduate USN Strike Fighter Tactical Instructor (TOP GUN) (1999)

• 45+ Years of firearms experience

• 30+ Years as an Instructor

• 19+ Years as a Competitive Shooter

• Formal School House Trained & Certified Instructor (1994)

• AA Degree in Instructor Technology (1999)

• Completed First Year Law School

• Legal Use of Force Consultant/Expert Witness

• Certified REEA Diamond Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (2023 - Present)

• Certified REEA Gold Standard Instructor (2019, 2021 - Present)

• USCCA SeniorTraining Counselor (2018 - Present))

• USCCA Training Counselor (2015 - Present)

• USCCA Concealed Carry & Home Defense Instructor (2013 - Present)

• USCCA Defensive Shooting Fundamentals Levels 1 and 2 Instructor (2017 - Present)

• USCCA Countering the Mass Shooter Threat Instructor (2018 - Present)

• USCCA Emergency First-Aid Fundamentals Instructor (2017 - Present)

• USCCA Women’s Handgun and Self-Defense Fundamentals Instructor (2017 - Present)

• USCCA Range Safety Officer (2017 - Present)

• Certified Sabre Red Pepper Spray (OC) Instructor (2021 - Present)

• Force Science Institute Analyst (2020)

• Massad Ayoob Group Deadly Force Instructor (2020)

• Massad Ayoob Group MAG-40 Armed Citizens Rules of Engagement (2018)

• Tactical Anatomy™ Shooting with Xray Vision Instructor™ (2024 - Present)

• American Law Courses – Criminal Law (2022)

• American Law Courses – Evidence: Guardrails of Justice (2023)

• American Law Courses – American Property: Freedom, Liberty & Ownership (2023)

• American Law Courses – Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and the Constitution (2023)

• American Law Courses – Business Law (2023)

• Law of Self-Defense Instructor Program (2016, 2022)

• Law of Self-Defense Level 1/Advanced (2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026)

• Law of Self-Defense Level 2 (2018)

• Law of Self-Defense Defense of Property (2019, 2022)

• Law of Self-Defense Lawful Defense Against Rioting Looting and Arson (2021, 2022)

• Law of Self-Defense Level 1 Montana Supplement (2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2025)

• Rangemaster Instructor Development (Top Graduate) (2017)

• Rangemaster Establishing a Dominance Paradigm (2020)

• Rangemaster Advanced Instructor Development (2020)

• Rangemaster Master Instructor Development (2022)

• Graduate Rangemaster 2018 Northwest Tactical Conference

• I.C.E. Advanced Pistol Handling (2023)

• I.C.E. Unorthodox Shooting Positions (2023)

• I.C.E. Intuitive Defensive Shooting Instructor Development (2018)

• I.C.E. Counter Ambush (2016)

• I.C.E. Defensive Firearms Coach (2017)

• I.C.E. Combat/Intuitive Defensive Shooting (2017)

• Shooting-Performance and Rob Leatham The Bigger Circle (2022)

• Shooting-Performance Firearms Instructor Development Course (2020, 2021x3, 2024)

• Shooting-Performance Defensive Handgun (2015, 2025)

• Shooting-Performance Defensive Rifle (2015)

• Shooting-Performance Competition Handgun I (2020, 2022)

• Shooting-Performance Competition Handgun II (2020)

• Shooting-Performance Low Light Shooting (2025)

• Shooting-Performance Non-Permissive Environment (2025)

• Shooting-Performance Vehicle Close Quarter Battle (2025)

• Shooting-Performance Weapons Retention (2025)

• Swift I Silent I Deadly Tactical Trauma Medical Training (2025)

• Swift I Silent I Deadly Unconventional Lock Opening Concepts I & II (2025)

• The Horus Group Fighting With a Handgun (2024)

• Aprill Risk Consulting UNTHINKABLE: Concepts and Techniques for the Gravest Extreme (2019)

• Martial Blade Concepts: Martial Blade Concepts,Counter-Blade Concepts, Damithurt Silat, and Sobadiwan Eskrima (2024)

• Emergence Situational Awareness For Employees (S.A.F.E.) Instructor (2020)

• Firearms Academy of Seattle Active Shooter Interdiction (2018)

• Firearms Academy of Seattle Master Handgun (2018)

• GLOCK Advanced Armorer (2008, 2013, 2018)

• GLOCK Instructor Workshop (2010)

• Smith & Wesson Semi-Automatic M&P Armorer (2016)

• Front Sight Firearms Training Institute Four-Day Defensive Handgun (Distinguished Graduate) (2015)

• LCG Tactical Handgun Tactical Skills & Movement Course (2018)

• LCG Tactical Low Light (2019)

• LCG Tactical – Tactical Carbine (2019)

• SAC Tactical Essential Carbine (2019)

• SAC Tactical Low Light (2020)

• Predator Security & Defense Private Security Specialist/Bodyguard Executive Protection (2019)

• Predator Security & Defense Long Range Marksman (2020)

• Sniper Central Long-Range Precision Marksman (2013)

• NRA BasicPistol Instructor (2008 - Present)

• NRA BasicRange Safety Officer (2008 - Present)

• Certified USMC Range Safety Officer (2009)

• Certified USPSA Chief Range Officer with Multi-Gun Endorsement (2009 - Present)

• Utah State Firearms Instructor (2014 - Present)

• Montana State Firearms Instructor (2020 - Present)

• USPSA, IDPA& Defensive Pistol Competitive Shooter

• Life Long Student

  Trained Under: Rob Leatham Massad Ayoob Tom & Lynn Givens Dr. William Lewinski Dennis Tueller Rob Pincus Michael Seeklander Andrew Branca Craig Douglas Dr. T.C. Fuller Dr. William Aprill Dr. James Williams Marty Hayes Lee Weams John Hearne John Holschen John Murphy Michael Martin Beth Alcazar Rich Brown Gail Pepin Adam Boyce Justin Carroll Sam Conway Predator Security and Defense Bruce Moyer Theresa Barnabei Bruce Cartwright

  Organization Memberships: USCCA Life Elite Member International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors NRA Life Member American Warrior Society Life Member Coin #800 American Competitive Shooting Society Life Member USPSA Member IDPA Member

Publication Credit Periodicals: -Contributing Author Concealed Carry Magazine July 2019 -Contributing Author American Warrior Society November 2021

Firearms Qualifications and Awards:

• U.S. Navy Expert Pistol
• U.S. Navy Expert Rifle
• USPSA Class B in divisions: Single Stack, Production, Limited, and Limited-10
• GLOCK Shooting Sports Foundation Master (2007)
• Firearms Academy of Seattle Master Handgun (2018)
• Over 100 local match wins or top 3 finishes (USPSA/IDPA/Defensive Pistol)
• 2007 USPSA Florida State Championship Class U Production Second Place
• 2007 USPSA Florida Section Championship Class C Production Second Place
• 2008 USPSA Florida State Championship Class C Production Third Place
• 2008 USPSA National Championship Class C Production Second Place
• 2011 USPSA Golden Bullet Championship Class C First Place
• 2012 USPSA NW Rockies Section Single Stack Champion
• 2018 USPSA Area 1 Championship Single Stack Class B Fourth Place
• 2021 USPSA NW Rockies Section Single Stack Second Place