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What is Sporting Clays?

The English Sporting discipline has the sport’s biggest following. While the other disciplines only use standard targets, in Sporting almost anything goes. Targets are thrown in a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations and distances and the discipline was originally devised to simulate live quarry shooting, hence some of the names commonly used on sporting stands: springing teal, driven pheasant, bolting rabbit, crossing pigeon, dropping duck, etc. Disciplines in this group include English sporting, international (FITASC) sporting, super sporting sportrap, and Compak sporting.

This discipline can have an infinite variety of ’stands’. English sporting is the most popular form of clay shooting in the UK, and a course or competition will feature a given number of stands each of which has a predetermined number of targets, all traveling along the same path and speed, either as singles or doubles.

Each stand will feature a different type of target; e.g., crosser, driven, quartering, etc. International (FITASC) sporting gives a much greater variety of targets in terms of trajectory and speed, and is shot by squads of six competitors in rounds of 25 targets at a time. Super Sporting is a hybrid of the two preceding varieties. There are also other formats such as Compak sporting and sportap in which five cages are surrounded by a number of traps, and shooters fire a specific combinations or singles from each stand according to a program displayed in front of the cage.

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We have found that clay target shooting is a very addictive sport that anyone can do. It’s a great outing for families, friends (think bachelor party) or corporate event for employees or clients.

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So what is clay target shooting all about? Most folks are familiar with the terms skeet shooting and trap shooting. These are classic clay target fields. In trap all of the targets are going away from you from a single trap. You rotate through 5 shooting “spots” or stations. Skeet has a high house and a low house from opposite sides of a half circle. You rotate between 8 stations. with most shots being crossers or going away.

With 5 stand and sporting clays anything goes. Targets can be going away, incomers, crossers, from towers over your head, rabbits bouncing across the ground- anything goes because the targets are meant to simulate hunting shots. On the sporting clays course you walk from station to station through fields and the woods. 5 stand is the same but on a smaller field with 5 stations.

Sporting clays is known as “the most fun you can have with a shotgun” and we couldn’t agree more.

Clay target events are increasing all over the country with women being the fastest growth sector. Women are finding the sport to be very empowering and confidence building. We start with basic gun safety, then move onto the 5 stand field where your first shot is at a stationary target on the ground then a straight forward going away target. Our methods have taught many new shooters to hit targets the first time out.

From one of our happy customers….”Denise, I wanted to thank you for being so patient and taking the time to help introduce both my mother and my wife to the sporting clayssport this past weekend. I was extremely impressed with how you taught them and the process used, not to mention the amazing facility you have. After the lesson, both my mother and wife were already inquiring as to when they could schedule another lesson with you.” J Briggs mrs-dunster10_content