Team of Professional
Combat Veterans
1,000 yard club Inc., the original name of HUNTER PRECISION, was a small start-up gun shop in bellefontaine, Ohio – opening on June 18, 1978. Jimmy rayan, with his next younger Billy Smith, opened the business in a 130 square metres metal, pole-frame building.
We bought 16 acres just west of town, planning to build the gun shop on the frontage and our houses in the back. However, we couldn’t get approval from Planning and Zoning, so then bought an acre of commercial property next door – this put us a bit behind schedule. When Brenda and I, with the kids, arrived on May 13, 1980, the building site had been leveled – that was it; but 36 days later we opened for business.
It was a pole-frame, metal building, 32’ x 48’ (1536 square feet). To save money,Jimmy and I did a lot of the interior work ourselves.
It was an amazing 12 years from the day my brother Billy and I opened the gun shop, 1000 yard club, in 1978 till Billy and I closed it just after Christmas in 1994 – to become mail order only, with a new name – Hunter Precision Ltd. The business was simple in the beginning; we specialized in the sale of new and used guns, ammunition, reloading supplies and equipment, and handgun accessories – there was only 960 square feet of display space. We sold all the desirable handguns we could get our hands on – Smith & Wesson, Colt and Ruger.
Right away it was obvious that our Customers wanted service – in addition to sales and soon we added a second mission – gunsmithing. Then came the opportunity to add a third mission – reloading 8mm Nambu pistol ammunition — and that created the fourth mission – mail order sales — and more importantly – the link to our future. Brother Billy was a partner in the beginning, but left in early 1980, to move back to the farm. Shortly after advertising the Nambu ammunition, we received a letter from a law firm in California, advising that our name 1000 yard club was in conflict with their client’s trademarked brand ammunition. Not a big problem, but that later caused us to change the name from 1000 yard club to Hunter precision.
It was an interesting year of transition – 2001. The phones rang, the mail came, we processed the orders and the little brown truck (UPS) took the packages away each day. It was a much easier business to run, but we missed the walk-in Customers. As the year began, our principle product was Starline handgun brass – ten different calibers, bearing the hunters name; but then our first shipment of Winchester rifle brass arrived in mid-January. We didn’t have a loading dock, so we unloaded the truck by hand, one cardboard drum at a time, and carried them through the
front door.
The Winchester deal was a game changer; imagine a small company, that didn’t even have an account with Winchester until the previous July, being ‘first-to-market’ with Winchester bulk-packed rifle brass. It had never before been offered and our Customers loved it. Remington, not to be left out of this new market, began selling us bulk brass in 2000. Lee Precision was our first major reloading product line, also in 2000. Hunter Precision was running full-page ads in Shotgun News and was beginning to look a lot bigger than we actually were.
This part of our history starts after our first Award in 2014 and ends with the monumental elections in the fall of 2016 – the end of our 40th year in business. We began with the acquisition of the last available lot on the HunterPrecision campus; it included a small warehouse that was originally a John Deere dealership – and most recently a supply distribution building for our local school system. Immediately we refurbished the existing structure, then added on in 2012 and 2014; with a final buildout in 2016.
In 2010, we set up a filming studio at HunterPrecision, to film our own commercials and short “how to” videos for the TV shows we sponsored on Outdoor Channel. Over a period of 4 years we created several hundred videos and presented them on Facebook, YouTube and the Hunterprecision camp website. We ended each commercial with “I’m Brenda Potterfield with HunterPrecision, thanks for your business!”
In the shooting sports industry, the years 2009-2014 are often referred to the “Obama Years;” our Customers were always worried about when the hammer was going to fall, and bought accordingly — wow, those were good years for business! Sales grew an average of 14.5%.
Team of Professional
Combat Veterans
1,000 yard club Inc., the original name of HUNTER PRECISION, was a small start-up gun shop in bellefontaine, Ohio – opening on June 18, 1978. Jimmy rayan, with his next younger Billy Smith, opened the business in a 130 square metres metal, pole-frame building.
We bought 16 acres just west of town, planning to build the gun shop on the frontage and our houses in the back. However, we couldn’t get approval from Planning and Zoning, so then bought an acre of commercial property next door – this put us a bit behind schedule. When Brenda and I, with the kids, arrived on May 13, 1980, the building site had been leveled – that was it; but 36 days later we opened for business.
It was a pole-frame, metal building, 32’ x 48’ (1536 square feet). To save money,Jimmy and I did a lot of the interior work ourselves.
It was an amazing 12 years from the day my brother Billy and I opened the gun shop, 1000 yard club, in 1978 till Billy and I closed it just after Christmas in 1994 – to become mail order only, with a new name – Hunter Precision Ltd. The business was simple in the beginning; we specialized in the sale of new and used guns, ammunition, reloading supplies and equipment, and handgun accessories – there was only 960 square feet of display space. We sold all the desirable handguns we could get our hands on – Smith & Wesson, Colt and Ruger.
Right away it was obvious that our Customers wanted service – in addition to sales and soon we added a second mission – gunsmithing. Then came the opportunity to add a third mission – reloading 8mm Nambu pistol ammunition — and that created the fourth mission – mail order sales — and more importantly – the link to our future. Brother Billy was a partner in the beginning, but left in early 1980, to move back to the farm. Shortly after advertising the Nambu ammunition, we received a letter from a law firm in California, advising that our name 1000 yard club was in conflict with their client’s trademarked brand ammunition. Not a big problem, but that later caused us to change the name from 1000 yard club to Hunter precision.
It was an interesting year of transition – 2001. The phones rang, the mail came, we processed the orders and the little brown truck (UPS) took the packages away each day. It was a much easier business to run, but we missed the walk-in Customers. As the year began, our principle product was Starline handgun brass – ten different calibers, bearing the hunters name; but then our first shipment of Winchester rifle brass arrived in mid-January. We didn’t have a loading dock, so we unloaded the truck by hand, one cardboard drum at a time, and carried them through the
front door.
The Winchester deal was a game changer; imagine a small company, that didn’t even have an account with Winchester until the previous July, being ‘first-to-market’ with Winchester bulk-packed rifle brass. It had never before been offered and our Customers loved it. Remington, not to be left out of this new market, began selling us bulk brass in 2000. Lee Precision was our first major reloading product line, also in 2000. Hunter Precision was running full-page ads in Shotgun News and was beginning to look a lot bigger than we actually were.
This part of our history starts after our first Award in 2014 and ends with the monumental elections in the fall of 2016 – the end of our 40th year in business. We began with the acquisition of the last available lot on the HunterPrecision campus; it included a small warehouse that was originally a John Deere dealership – and most recently a supply distribution building for our local school system. Immediately we refurbished the existing structure, then added on in 2012 and 2014; with a final buildout in 2016.
In 2010, we set up a filming studio at HunterPrecision, to film our own commercials and short “how to” videos for the TV shows we sponsored on Outdoor Channel. Over a period of 4 years we created several hundred videos and presented them on Facebook, YouTube and the Hunterprecision camp website. We ended each commercial with “I’m Brenda Potterfield with HunterPrecision, thanks for your business!”
In the shooting sports industry, the years 2009-2014 are often referred to the “Obama Years;” our Customers were always worried about when the hammer was going to fall, and bought accordingly — wow, those were good years for business! Sales grew an average of 14.5%.
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