The April issue of Clay Target Nation is packed with great how-to articles and informative pieces on gun modifications, shotgun beads and more. In our Training Tips columns, NSSA Instructor Al Scooler shares advice on setting the right tone for your round by nailing high 1, while Clayton Rue warns sporting clays shooters about doing the two-step — in other words, taking two steps (and only two steps) to break every target. We've also got a profile on sporting clays' Mike Luongo Jr., and of course, your favorite "What's Your Call?" column. In features, the team at OSP Shooting School list … [Read more...]
Anthony Matarese Brings World Championship to USA
Anthony Matarese Jr. has become the first American ever to win the World English Sporting Championship, taking the individual Gold Medal last week on the E.J. Churchill Shooting Grounds in England. Matarese finished the regulation main event with a three-target lead and held the margin through the six-man super final shoot-off to earn the World Championship. Mike Wilgus also qualified for the super final and finished the competition sixth overall. NSSA-NSCA's Clay Target Nation magazine recently profiled Matarese as a hard-working, driven competitor and for his wide-ranging activities in … [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...]
New Official Magazine Launches in January
Starting in January, 2016, you will receive a new official NSCA magazine, Clay Target Nation, a joint publication with NSSA. Our long-term contract with Sporting Clays magazine to provide a publication to you is expiring, and we have engaged Grand View Media to produce the new magazine under our direction. Around the same time you receive the inaugural issue of Clay Target Nation, you will also receive your final issue of Sporting Clays magazine. Although its cover date will be February 2016, you should receive it in early January. That will be the only month of overlapping … [Read more...]