SPORTING CLAYS
Sporting Clays
Sporting Clays
Clinton Fish & Game Club in Clinton, New York
Every Sunday morning to mid afternoon
Once winter weather hits course is shut down.
$17.00 for a round of 50 targets
Open to the Public
A typical course consists of 10 stations, with each station presenting targets from trap machines. Usually 6 to 10 targets are shot at each station by a squad of up to six shooters for a total outing of 50 to 100 targets per person. Targets are thrown in pairs or singles. A pair of targets may be thrown as a true pair (or sim pair, i.e., thrown at the same time), as a following pair (thrown sequentially), or on report (the second clay launched on the firing of the shooter痴 gun). Numerous hunting conditions can be simulated by combining various speeds and angles with different types of clay targets. Each station is unique. Throughout a course, the shooters might see targets crossing from either side, coming inward, going outward, flying straight up, rolling on the ground, arcing high in the air, or thrown from towers. The possible target presentations are limited only by safety considerations, the terrain, and the imagination of the course designer. The configuration of the stations is often changed to maintain interest for the shooters and for environmental preservation of the course
RULES TO FOLLOW
Follow Order
Be ready to shoot when it's your turn, pay attention, keep alert. Scorekeeper shall announce who's up and who is on deck after every single shooter round is completed. Only the first shooter at a station is allowed to call for show targets. Load one or two shells at a time and do not close your action or raise your gun until you are in the shooting station. Order of fire changes after each station.
Dropping an unused round
Never pick up you live round on the ground if dropped during loading. Reload your shotgun with your carried rounds. Once the your round is finished pickup live shell before exiting stand and ensuring your shotgun is empty.
Load one or two shells
Only one shooter is permitted to shoot at a target with one or two rounds. Before leaving the shooting area after your round is complete unload any live ammo. Semi-automatics leave open to display your shotgun is not loaded. Over/unders or side by sides leave shotgun unhitched displaying no rounds in barrels.
Spent shells
You have to pick them up, throw them in the buckets located next to the stand.
