shooting sports in Maine Kittery Trading Post
 

Shooting sporting clays has been described as "the most fun you can have with a shotgun" and it would be hard to argue with that. Sporting clays combines trap, skeet type targets along with any other type of presentation you can think of. Targets include but are not limited to over head targets, bouncing rabbits, chandelles, and true incomers.         

     Like any of the shooting sports, anyone can shoot and is a great family activity. Courses are typically thru fields, in the woods and over water and can consist of any where from 6 to 20 stations. Target presentations can be singles, report pairs ( after the shot at the first target a second is launched from a different trap) or simo pairs where two targets are launched at the same time! Most sporting clays rounds are 50 or 100 targets. Any gauge can be used with 12 and 20 being the most common. The smaller gauges,  28 and 410 are usually more of a challenge on sporting clays courses. Over and under shotguns and semiautos are the most common types of shotgun used. No matter what the gun, correct fit are essential.

Date

Shoot

Location

2/3/08

Frozen 5 #3

Scarborough F & G

2/23/08

Polar #4

Hermon Skeet Club

3/2/08

Frozen 5 #4

Scarborough F & G

3/08/08

Polar #5

Hermon Skeet Club

3/29/08

Polar #6

Hermon Skeet Club

4/6/08

Frozen 5 #5

Scarborough F & G

4/12/08

Polar #6

Hermon Skeet Club

4/26/08

Spring Fling

Silverton Sporting Ranch

4/27/08

Fun Shoot

Varney's Clay Sports

5/17/08

Mud Shoot

Hermon Skeet Club

6/7/08

Black Fly Shoot

Hermon Skeet Club

6/22/08

Scarborough Big Easy

Scarborough F & G

6/27/08

Maine State Prelim #1

Silverton Sporting Ranch

6/28/08

Maine State Prelim #2

Silverton Sporting Ranch

6/29/08

Maine State S/C Chmp

Silverton Sporting Ranch

7/12/08

Mid Summer Shoot

Hermon Skeet Club

8/16/08

Summers End Shoot

Silverton Sporting Ranch

8/24/08

R.M.E.F. Hunters Tune Up

Varney's Clay Sports

8/30/08

Lobster Shoot

Hermon Skeet Club

9/14/08

Partridge Tune-Up

Scarborough F & G

9/20/08

Summers Over Shoot

Hermon Skeet Club

11/9/08

Fowler's Shoot

Scarborough F & G

12/7/08

Frozen 5 #1

Scarborough F & G

 

 

 



check out John Mill's blog on sporting clays