Northbrook Sports Club in Hainesville, Illinois, is ready for hundreds of sporting clays and FITASC shooters to arrive for two of the year's biggest events, the North Central Regional Sporting Clays and National FITASC Championships, on August 15-21. The North Central Regional is the fifth of seven events in the 2016 NSCA Championship Tour, and both events are selection shoots for the USA Sporting Clays and FITASC teams. Northbrook promises abundant targets -- set by Greater Houston Gun Club's Adam Blair, Fossil Pointe's David Niederer, and the Northbrook staff -- including: 50-target … [Read more...]
The Challenges and Opportunities of Member Communications
You probably can't name a sport with memberships more diverse than skeet and sporting clays. Because they can be pursued successfully and with enjoyment by people of virtually any age or gender, we have the good fortune of memberships from young to old, male and female, novice to world championship levels. Members span wide-ranging income levels, vocations, and locations. Some participate in sporting clays or skeet exclusively, while others shoot both sports through dual memberships or the Crossfire program. Our members span all levels of technological expertise. Our diversity presents us not … [Read more...]
Ask the Instructor: New Gun, Low Scores
New Gun, Low Scores I recently bought a sporting clays gun with 32-inch barrels, and now my scores have fallen sharply. I started out with 28-inch barrels, then moved up to 30-inch, and now with the longer barrels, I can’t seem to catch up to the target. My previous two guns were Beretta 682, and this one is a 692. I’m 6’5? and 250 pounds, so the gun does not seem too big to me. I was pretty happy with the shorter barrels but succumbed to advertising, I suppose. A big part of this is seeing the top shooters in the country with the longer barrels and trying to duplicate what they are … [Read more...]
Radulovich Prevails at Muddy U.S. Open
Rain and mud may have been the most discussed topics at the U.S. Open Sporting Clays Championship at Caney Creek Shooting Sports, but David Radulovich would disagree that almost a foot of rain was the most exciting thing that happened in Teague, Texas last week. After getting his first U.S. Open win as a Junior in 2009, Radulovich won the U.S. Open championship with a strong 197, punctuating his main event win with top spots in FITASC and 5-Stand as well. Derrick Mein finished three targets back to take the runner-up spot, breaking the three-way tie with third-place Dan Carlisle and Doug … [Read more...]
NSCA Mourns Passing of Anne Cherry
The sporting clays community is grieving the loss of a familiar face at the country's most prominent events. Anne Cherry, wife of champion shooter Wendell Cherry, died of pancreatic and liver cancer on June 5. Anne regularly accompanied Wendell at sporting clays tournaments and was well-known among the shooters, their families, club personnel, and the sporting clays industry. Anne was in the hearts and minds of participants at the U.S. Open Sporting Clays Championship, as the PSCA distributed red ribbons to everyone to wear in her honor. Anne was born in Mississippi on May 18, 1953. … [Read more...]
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