Sporting Clays

Sporting Clays Basics:

You may have heard of sporting clays referred to as golf with a shotgun, and that's a fair comparison. Like golf courses, no two sporting clays courses are alike, and terrain and background have a lot to do with how targets are presented. Since no two courses are alike, shooters travel to different courses to experience variety.

How to Play the Game:

Sporting clays is the closest thing to actual field shooting of all shotgun sports. Rather than having clay birds thrown from standardized distances and angles as with skeet or trap, sporting clays courses are designed to simulate the hunting of ducks, pheasants, other upland birds, and even rabbits. Since there is no set season and it can be shot at any time, many hunters shoot sporting clays to further their wingshooting skills during the off-season. Targets may be thrown from literally any angle or distance to simulate wingshooting, and six different sizes of clay targets are used to further give the shooter the experience of actual hunting conditions.

Sporting clays use standard and specialty targets to introduce the illusion of speed or distance in the eye of the shooter, moving at speeds or in the ways of game birds. All can be thrown as singles or pairs. Sporting clays is typically shot in squads of two to six people and played over a course of 10 to 16 shooting stations laid around fields or around the natural features of the land. The course designer is not limited in target speed, angle, or distance, so every course is different.

Any shotgun that's in safe working condition, capable of firing two shots, may be used. Any gauge can be used, but the most popular are 12 and 20 gauge. Many shooters like to shoot an over/under because it gives them two choke choices. Shooters who tend to be sensitive to recoil might prefer gas-operated semiautomatics.  The preferred shot size is #7 1/2 to #9, but nothing larger than 7-1/2 should ever be used.

For more information click HERE.  Questions regarding Sporting Clays can be directed to office@quintonsportsmensclub.com

Sporting Clays is open:

Sunday Morning shooting begins at 9am

You must be on the course by noon

Cost per round (100 birds):

$30.00 QSC Members

Quinton Sportsmen’s Club
346 Jericho Road
Salem, NJ 08079