Door County Rod and Gun Club
2012
A 6 week Sporting Clay league will start on Sunday, March 4th. There will be a meeting at 11:00am and shooting will be from 12:00-2:00pm.
There will be 3 man teams if enough people sign up otherwise it will be done Lewis style.
50 rounds per week will be shot.
Ammunition is available for purchase at the gun club.
If you are interested please contact Mike Orthober to sign up at 743-1827 or e-mail him directly at wildwiztax@gmail.com. PLEASE only use this phone number and e-mail to sign up for Sporting Clays. For all other inquiries please e-mail doorcountyrodandgun@dcwis.com . Thank you!
What is sporting clays?
With its roots coming from England, sporting clays is a shotgun shooting game in
which clay pigeons are presented to the gunner in ways that mirror the flight
pattern of game birds, or occasionally rabbits, in their natural habitats. The
shooting grounds are laid out in stations with each station representing one
type of bird or a combination of game; a rabbit and a grouse, for example.
At each station, clay pigeons are thrown in pairs, five or so pairs to the
station. A course consists of several stations, usually five to ten, where 100
birds or more may be presented over the course. Sometimes birds from the same
traps may be shot from different positions, so the gunner sees the same target
from entirely different angles, which creates entirely new shooting problems. An
area presenting pigeons to several stations from a single trap is called a
field.
With variations in trap position, trap speed, shooting position, and flight
paths of different types of clay pigeons, targets can come through the trees,
from under your feet, straight down, over your head, quartering, going away,
left to right, right to left, and in any path a real bird might choose. The key
words are unpredictable, variable, and sometimes bordering on impossible.
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