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Sports See other Sports Articles Title: Hillsdale College Produces Top-Notch Shooting Teams from State-of-the-Art Facility Hillsdale College Produces Top-Notch Shooting Teams from State-of-the-Art Facility By: Cassidy Syftestad Couched in the middle of 113 acres, Hillsdale College’s Shooting Sports Education Center was created to “expose a new generation to shooting sports, encourage older shooters to return to the sport and to bring the ideas of liberty to life.” Since the establishment of an intercollegiate shooting team in 2011, Hillsdale College is represented at a number of Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) events and the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Intercollegiate Clay Target Championships hillsdale.edu. Growth and Development In addition to a nationally ranked shotgun team, the Shooting Sports Education Center houses retreats, scholarship competitions, and a series of shooting courses for beginners. Hillsdale College graduate and former team captain, Joseph Kain ‘16, said the program and coaching staff grew very quickly during his time at Hillsdale. “The venues and shooting facility expanded from three trap fields during my first visit to Hillsdale in 2009 to a world class athletic facility for serious shooting athletes,” Kain said. Today, the range includes five American trap fields, a five-stand sporting clays field, a small arms range, a skeet field for American and International skeet, and an Olympic bunker. In addition, the College plans to expand the pistol range to accommodate the newly formed Hillsdale College Action Shooting Sports Team whose members shoot with 9mm handguns and 22LR rifles. Second Amendment Rights and Gun Safety In addition to the range’s recreational features, the lodge and education center provides a series of basic and advanced courses in shotgun, pistol, rifle, and archery. Adam Burlew, Shotgun Team Administrator, explained that each class contains a diversity of experience. “There are students who spend quite a lot of time on the range and others who have never seen a gun before. So, we begin with a foundation of safety before moving to steel targets and having fun with it,” Burlew said. Upon the completion of an eight-week course at the Shooting Center, students receive a certificate from the NRA’s Home Firearm Safety Course. With an overview of the Constitution and gun history, students are able to articulate the freedoms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Burlew also encourages his students to discuss current issues like mass shootings and a proper consideration of gun control in America. “In light of recent events in Florida, we hashed out what could have been done differently, who was at fault, and what causes individuals to do things like this. My students dive below party lines and public reactions to discuss topics like gun control and armed citizens.” “Most importantly,” Kain said, “our college and facility stands as a citadel for promoting the importance of our Second Amendment and awareness of firearms in society.” Poster Comment: Gun control is hitting your target. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Good on Hillsdale.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Thanks for some more good news, B. We need it!
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