The September issue of Clay Target Nation is packed with event coverage as well as tips and advice from our experts.
In our Training Tips columns, John Shima reminds shooters to accept their skills where they are while striving for improvement, and Gil Ash explains that some target presentations really are better shot with an unmounted gun.
Sporting clays’ two big international events, the World FITASC and World English Sporting Clays Championship, are both covered in this issue, and you can read all about how the USA Sporting Clays Team fared against the rest of the world. We also have coverage of the Kolar Mid-America.
In our “From the Archives” article celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary, we are rerunning an article from 2026 discussing a question that’s still being asked today: “Are sporting targets getting too hard?” On the skeet side, Paul Giambrone III has some advice for anyone who is struggling to close out that elusive 100 straight, and we take a deep dive into the guns used by top shooters Billy D. Williams, Sheaffer Stanfill and reigning HOA World Champion John Barnes. Finally, don’t miss Phil Bourjaily’s review of the Beretta 688.
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