Hilltop Gun Club

FEBRUARY CCW CLASS

Our CCW class will be held the 22nd of this month. Please check in for available slots and futher information via email..

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Comments from some recent classes at HillTop Gun Club

No improvements needed. It was a fantastic class
The live fire and safety and the excellence of the teachers was most beneficial
The class was very informative and enjoyable and fun
I need more hands on experience with my handgun on the gun range
Why are there no open to the public firing ranges in Athens County
Training in the safe handling of the handgun was driven and redriven into us by Kevin. He never lets up
The course was very educational in many aspects of the concealed carry law and in gun safety
I didnt know there were so many holsters and places to carry a handgun concealed
If you are offended by swear words then bring your hearing protectors as Kevin is a cusser and he says he does it to shock us out of our own little protected innocent world as bad people cuss and scream and swear much worse
The visit the gas stations to watch for narly people is a real eye opening experience
Moving while firing was extememly beneficial
Im worn out, I am 76 years old. The instructors dont allow us to have excuses and they make us push ourselves through the course as they said if something bad did happen and we had to use our handgun then this is nothing to compare to
My daughter has cancer and is in treatment, we travel to Columbus often and around the hospital is a very bad part of town. We are all scared when we get out of our cars, however I carry my LCP with me everywhere and Im confident
It was interesting to read in the recent Athens News newspaper in the Womens section as to how many women in SE Ohio are trained to use a concealed carry weapon and speak out in favor of doing so
A 1 12 hour day is long perhaps it if was split into two days
The shooting drills were fasanating
My trigger finger is sore, my hand is sore, my body is sore and I am sore
Great course
I give Kevin an A+
Have a better selection of breakfast food, more various drinks the day was way toooo long but it was an interesting day
HillTop Gun Club instructors train us in the snow wind hail rain 104 degrees. No matter the weather we train
I learned real quick to not be a “dumb ass’ for keeping my finger on the trigger
The most beneficial part of the class was the shooting range and learning all the part of my handgun. Not to mention the laws on actually carrying the gun and where and when

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A recent handgun training by the staff of HillTop Gun Club

Recently we conducted a very long Fall season intensive handgun training clinic. The objectives were many and we actually shot through 33 various “what if’s.” You ask what is a “what if?” A what if is what if we were at a gas station or truck stop or fast food restrauant of a coffee shop even a school and what if the bad person or people were intent on robbing harming shooting you or worse and what if that happens what are you going to do to defuse or stop the “What if!”

A tremendous amount of training schools in Ohio and the US concentrate on military and law enforcement tactics as we do also, however our teachers are known to bring in common since and to think outside of the box. As we have said before we are not going to throw a MULE pack on some 90lb woman and then expect her to shoot out the target all the while dragging a 300 pound man that has a bad heart and knees to a safe zone. We just dont expect that to happen in real life around here very much. However what if that did happen,, what if the 90 pound woman and her husband were robbed beaten and he was shot at a gas station and she was the mobile one? What does she do to protect him and herself with her handgun at that time of crisis? Our instructors come up with very safe secure defensive tactics for the class to practice learn and simulate.

Over the 2 day course we also had each student try various handguns and we swapped each others guns so that everyone had the opportunity to see how other handguns operate and if they could use them especally under duress. One very good learning experinece was to see how handguns have evolved from a 5 shot 38 Special Smith & Wesson to a brand new Kahr with a decocker a single double action a loaded chamber indicator a slide and trigger lock and a another loaded chamber indicator that pops up and is painted red!! Our thoughts are that the newest handguns with all the locks and indicators and de cockers are going to get someone badly hurt of killed if they dont practice with them often.

Some of the more intensive tactics we covered were the shoot and move and exchange your magazine or use a speed loader, go behind cover or concealment to shoot, shoot miss return and shoot the same target, prone shooting, weak then strong hand shooting, shooter down – return fire and shooting in the dark. Our students were exhusted but very satisfied and more prepared for their own self defensive needs after this class. A good question to you is when is the last time you shot a firearm in total darkness? What could you not see 3 seconds after the muzzel report of about 5′ blinded you?

If you, family, friends or a group are interested in more firearm training give us a call or text or email to find more details and information as to how we can help you in your training needs. HillTop Gun Club offers much more training than involving firearms so give us a contact and let us know how you can become safer and secure.

Staff

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Concealed Carry Weapons Permits in Ohio

Last week August 7th 2013 the Ohio Attorney Generals office in Columbus released some very interesting information concerning the dramatic and radical increase in concealed carry permits in Ohio. In year 72,000 shall permits were issued by the AG’s ofice, however just in the last 6 months of 2013 over 64,000 permits were issued! This is a very interesting tid bit of knowledge. According to the AG’s office somewhere around 400,000 people now have concealed carry permits and that will soon cross over to 500,000 in the very near future.

If we were living in New York, Maryland, or most of the anti gun states those amounts of permits would have declined. We are very fortunate that Ohio is extreme pro gun pro hunting pro carry weapons and pro let us make the decisions as to where we want our gun laws to be instead of Bloomburgs attack on all politicians who are pro gun.

Last week in Cincinatti there was a Mayors Against Gun rally brought to you by Bloomberg in the down town square supported by families of the mass murder in Connectict. However the amount of people in support of more Anti Gun laws in Ohio fell short of any noticeable means. Some say there were 30 anti gun activits.

We at HillTop Gun Club support smart dscussion and communications pertaining to gun violence reduction and more incarceration along with a movement to regain prayer in school, the reciting of The Pledge of Alliegence and spankings.. Once they took those out of our public schools discipling made a marked and pronounced decline in the United States.

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Memorial Day 2013

Memorial Day 2013 will be here in less than 12 hours. Memorial Day is the only day in the entire year set aside just to honor respect and mourn for the military war veteran of the United States of America. It is celebrated with family reunions, graduations picnics and cookouts and watching the parade in the downtown with the old and new veterans riding – walking; some marching. Memorial Day the only day in the entire year for veterans. At the main cemetery in the town of New Marshfield Ohio at 10 AM starts a world class veterans graveside service which follows local tradition. Gilham-Frank VFW Post 8804 continues a 67 year service in the cemetery. The people of the township and other parts have buried grieved honored saluted their veterans in the hills since 1787! One of the oldest patriotic gestures in the entire United States.Waterloo township was discovered and organized by early settler military men.
Some board members of Hilltop Gun Club are military veterans and also belong to the same VFW Post. Our hands are outreached, we are thankful for your service and it is an honor and privilege to have you on the board of Hilltop Gun Club.

Training will resume the 2nd week of June.

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GUN CLUB IS SEEKING LAND FOR A NEW PROFESSIONAL RANGE

Hilltop Gun Club is actively seeking a piece of land in Athens County preferably in Waterloo, Dover and York townships. We would like 10 to 20 acres, undeveloped, must have a high wall or tall hillside, road frontage and away from as many people as possible. We will pay cash for the right property. The purpose of the land buy is to build the most professional operated and set up gun range in the entire Southeast Ohio. Our range will be built with Range Development Team within the NRA and will be open to the public.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you have vacant land or know of some to buy.

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ANY NEW GUN WILL GET YOU KILLED

What does the phrase “any new gun will get you killed” mean to a new shooter or even an old experienced shooter that has shot 500,000 rounds of ammo in their life time you might ask?
Yesterday the Chief Instructor and assistants of HillTop Gun Club held the 3rd Concealed Carry Weapon Ohio course of the year and all students who attended had brand new handguns. As we have said for decades any new gun that is not properly broken in and cleaned and lubed will fail to function. All guns yesterday including the chief instructors brand new Taurus Super Duper Heavy Duty SOCOM prototype 9 mm failed many many times. I used up 100 rds in that gun and it “STOVE PIPED” on me as least 30 times. If it wasn’t for many decades of combat and tactical training to clear the weapon and to get it back on line I could very easily get hurt or die if I used that NEW GUN for concealed carry. or self defense usage.
All told yesterday February 17th 2013 there was a total of 1100 rds of ammo expended during a brutally cold day on the range. Out of the 1100 rds of ammo there was probably over 100 times the guns did not work. Think on that a moment. You go buy a brand new handgun, you have never shot it or maybe you have shot it 20 times then its time to go train and you find out your 400 – 600 – 1000$ gun wont function. Why put yours or others lives on the line if you have to use a CCW gun and it will not work? All firearms (new) over the last 20 years are manufactured at aircraft machined tolerances. They are way way to tight and will most always fail if not properly broken in. Have you ever thought of the 300,000 people in Ohio who have a CCW permit who has never been properly trained or have had their gun tested to see if it works and they are walking around with a gun that might now fire? That’s on scary thought!
So the word to the wise is, if you buy a new gun and if you intend to carry it for self protection then that guns needs to be broken in properly. If you want more information just ask any of the thousands of students of our who found out the hard way on the gun range instead of on the street in a violent confrontation.

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February 17th 2013 Concealed Carry Class is being held!

HillTop Gun Club is pleased to announce that the February 17th 2013 concealed carry weapons class is going to be held. We have had people ask about can they still get regiseterd and the answer is yes. We do not close out any of our class untill 2 weeks before. Often however we do not get as many people that promise to come and thats why we charge a deposit. So folks if you want trained and experience a real class that you will give you a life time learning ordeal then please send in your deposit and come.
Do you want to learn from someone that is charging $45 or $75 per student? Its like buying crap from China that you know is going to break before you get it home. So beware of the cheap and the easy or you will get what you paid for!
HillTop is known by an 8 county Sheriffs department area in Southeastern Oho and they all approve our training cerfificates.
Call text email and get your seat now for this up and coming exciting one of a kind training

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FIRE FIRE – WOLF WOLF – GUN GUN

This week in Athens Ohio at the home of Ohio University a young woman was supposedly held up at gun point in Athens city. (Not on the campus of Ohio University) Very soon a totally freaked out President of Ohio University and Guy Lombardi Student Affairs Director started a mass pandemonium within the campus of Ohio University by declaring a man was on the loose heading towards the campus with a handgun. The Ohio University Police got caught up in the friggin mess and started coming unglued. If you follow the Tweets and You Tubes and Facebooks and the local media you too will see how this issue became a total fantasy of the OU police department and OU upper administration
Now mind you that we at HillTop always lean towards better safe that sorry attitude, but oh my Gawd did the pres and administration go to the bonkers level. Fire Fire Wolf Wolf Gun Gun.
The entire Campus was shut down within minutes and 22,000 kids were flushed out onto the streets all at once. Let us go to a more serious thought.
What if the bad person or persons were up town in Athens city bent on killing as many people as they could, when OU flushed the students all downtown? Hmnn. We call that “rich targets of opportunity”
How about if there were more than one bad person and they wanted to take control. THEY did take control buy causing Pres Mcdavis to freak out and shut down the campus. What happened to “we don’t deal with terrorists? Wasn’t the bad person with the handgun (if there even was a handgun) a terrorist?
OU drew out there entire police force looking for a ghost.. What if the bad person or persons decided to pull a stunt on the police force then decided to go rob Baker Center or perhaps set some building on fire?
Why didn’t OU police contact the Athens City Police or the Athens County Sheriff or 911 or Athens County Emergency Services? Again the bad person took control.
Why wasn’t the media contacted to alert others within the area that a robbery had taken place?
Is OU going to pay the traveling college basket ball for their trip which was stopped in route to come to Athens and play our college basketball team?
It can go on and on and on. but the point is Ohio University caused a tremendous scare and shock and fright within the city and county by giving up total control of the facility and campus to a ghost.. Has anyone seen this person since? Who is he? Where is he?
Our thoughts here at the training facility is that “Self awareness is self defense” and by just letting 20000 plus people out onto the street all at one time set up a scene for a total doomsday scenario.
Maybe the next time a young woman gets raped or some football player beats someones head off or a nut job walks through the campus with a long black coat talking out loud to himself the OU police and Pres McDavis will also shut down the campus.
It is embarrassing after all of the mass killings and shooting on a daily basis that such a knee jerk reaction caused the amount of damming grief and attention to our lovely county.

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