5-Stand Sporting Clays

5-Stand Sporting is now available during all public hours, year-'round. Two layouts - one not too hard (red layout), the other (blue layout) pretty challenging - are available during the late Fall and Winter months. The Blue layout is closed when the Sporting Clays course opens in early April, but the Red layout is always available right out in front of the clubhouse.

Both layouts include 8 traps, with specialty presentations like rabbits, towers, teal, chondelles, and 90 mm, mixed in with regular targets. We do our best to change the presentations and sequence menus regularly to keep it interesting for our regular customers. If you've been out more than once, you know that the combination of changing menus and changing wind create different presentations from day to day even if the traps are not moved! We try our best to adjust for wind to keep the targets "reasonable" but on certain days, it just ain't possible! Call it a challenge - just be prepared to shoot a tighter choke and/or a little quicker than normal.

For those interested, the Red Layout is normally set so that chokes in the skeet to light modified range are sufficient. Targets are typically shot in the 15 to 35 yd. distance range. Pairs can be thrown singly, on report, or true at the shooter's discretion, depending on the desired level of challenge.

The Blue layout is set to be representative of medium to high level tournament Sporting Clays or FITASC-type target presentations. The stands are spaced far apart to increase the presentation difference for a given trap as the shooter moves from stand to stand (or you could think of it as FITASC pegs). Targets are typically more technical, with subtle transitions, drastic transitions, hard-to-read transitions, distance, and/or speed. Shot distances range from first targets in the 25 to 30 yd range, to true pair second targets that are often beyond 50 yds and falling, edge on, curling, or wind-blown. Choke selection should probably start at light modified and proceed to IMod or maybe tighter, depending on shooter preference and confidence level. The Blue layout is not for those with fragile egos. Master-class sporting shooters have been known to shoot 15/25 on occasion on this layout. It is a challenge, but working out technique and confidence to hit these targets will make you a better sporting clays shooter. You've got to give it a try a few times to experience what the "Big Dogs" find challenging!