Hancock County Gun Club

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Hancock County Gun Club We're a gun club located in central western Illinois. We have an indoor range, a 300-yard outdoor range and 2 trap fields. Dues up to $50.00 per year.

We were founded in 1950 by local competitive pistol shooters and have since expanded to handgun, sh***un and r***e sports. A not-for-profit shooting establishment helping to teach people marksmanship, providing camaraderie and a place to practice shooting, engage in the shooting sports, contests and just have fun. We have a trap shooting league, and a .22 r***e leagues twice a year, pistol league in the Winter/Spring. Annual meeting is 3rd Wednesday of March, and is a carry-in dinner (wild game if you have it) and several members only shooting events each month except December as there is no meeting that month. We also have several shoots open to the public each year to test your marksmanship. Check the web page for actual dues amounts.

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween. If you don't already know. this is Glenn Jacobs, Raised in Bowling Green, Missouri, currently a County mayor in Knox County, Kentucky, and formerly the wrestler Kane!

Great big thank you to everyone who came out Saturday night for our glow in the dark trap shoot. We had a great time sho...
10/26/2026

Great big thank you to everyone who came out Saturday night for our glow in the dark trap shoot. We had a great time shooting and conversing.
Also a big thanks for the help setting up before and cleaning up after.

10/23/2026

Okay, enough of getting things for the trap people. We need this for the rest of us!

10/22/2026

Last night was meeting night. Here are a few of the highlights. First, good fellowship was had at the Hot Dog Roast. Thank you Robert Emmert for setting it up. The new trap range lights were displayed. We got calls from angry McDonough County residents saying they were too bright. Our new air conditioner is halfway installed. No, you didn't miss, the urinal in the pistol range is leaking. Some ideas on getting people into the club were discussed but tabled. That was about it. Short meeting.

10/21/2026
10/18/2026

Holy (Beef) Cow! It's We**ie Wednesday this week!

10/18/2026

It was cold. The kind of cold that makes lesser people stay inside, in bed, fearful to face the day. That noise! There in the woods. A frightening shriek of foreboding. A noise that would chill the bones of lesser people.
Yet, on a day like this, four intrepid hearty souls ventured out. Four heroes for our time, answered the call of the Holy Black Powder Siren's song. Yes, these, the kind of people that chorus's will sing about for time immortal.
Today was the Black Powder Buffalo Shoot.
There they gathered. Staunchly standing against the elements. Melvin Moore, James Bowdish, Andy Johnson and Kam Miller, grabbed ramrods and smoke poles and went onward to the concrete slab.
Smoke billowed out as the guns roared. A Savage 10ML, a Traditions .50 Caliber, a Custom .54 Tennessee Mountain and a .54 Woodrunner, all spitting lead at the hapless metal targets. One by one they fell to the onslaught.
Jim came in 1st with his savage-hitting Savage at 100 yards with conical ball for 28 points of 30 possible. Melvin followed traditionally with his Traditions for 17 points, 100 yard Conical.
Shooting REAL Flintlock Muzzle loaders, Andy came in like a true Mountain Man with his iron-fitted Tennessee Mountain R***e, 1st place with 28 points for Round Ball at 75 yards and Kam was following with 17 points (his actual best for a Buffalo Shoot) at 75 yards Round Ball, running in the woods.
Will chorus's sing about YOU next year? Or will that black powder gun sit languishing in your closet? Only time and your desire to be somebody will tell.

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1605 N State Highway 94
Carthage, IL
62321

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