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COVID-19 Update: Postponed or Canceled Events

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With concerns about the spread of COVID-19, many shooters and member clubs are making decisions about continuing with planned events. Because our member clubs and their events are throughout the U.S. and beyond, where circumstances vary greatly, each club will make its own decision about any changes in plans. We urge our member clubs and individual members to heed the advice of medical experts and advisories/requirements of their local and state governments regarding hosting and attending events. Please contact clubs directly for any questions about specific events. As we learn about canceled or postponed events, we will add them to the list below, post on our social media pages, and announce in Target Talk.

If an event does not appear below, we have not been notified of cancellation or postponement.

Clubs: If you are cancelling or postponing an event, please notify Sherry Kerr, skerr@nssa-nsca.com, to be included on this list.

Below are events we currently know have been postponed or canceled, as of September 18, 2020, 9:00 a.m.:

Original Date

Event

Club

Status
March 21-22 South River Open South River Gun Club (GA) Postponed, New Date TBD
March 23-28 ACUI Collegiate National Championship National Shooting Complex (TX) Postponed, New Date TBD
April 3-5 Arizona State Skeet Championship Clay Busters of Arizona (AZ) Postponed, New Date TBD
April 30-May 3 duPont/Krieghoff – Krieghoff – White Flyer Masters Skeet Shoot Forest City Gun Club (GA) Rescheduled for August 27-30
May 2-3 Ironman Invitational Sportsmens Club (WA) Postponed to September 19-20
May 3 Big Gun Open Union City Sportsmen's Club Postponed to September 13
May 22-24 Larry Steward Memorial DuPont Fish & Game (MD) Postponed, New Dates TBD
May 28-31 Tildon Downing Challenge Durham Co Wildlife Club (NC) Rescheduled for October 23-25
May 29-31 Alabama State Championship Fort Rucker Skeet Club (AL) Rescheduled for September 4-6
June 5-7 Louisiana State Skeet Championship Lafayette Skeet Club (LA) Rescheduled for October 9-11
June 5-7 Florida State Skeet Championship Jacksonville Clay Target Sports (FL) Reschedule for Nov 13-15 at Imperial Polk Co Gun Club
June 11-14 Texas State Skeet Championships Greater Houston Sports Club (TX) Rescheduled for October 30 - November 1
June 12-14 Utah State Skeet Championship Lee Kay Shotgun Center (UT) Rescheduled for October 9-11
July 24-26 New Mexico State Championship High Desert Sportsmen (NM) Rescheduled for September 11-13
July 31 - August 2 Kansas State Championship Ark Valley Gun Club (KS) Rescheduled for October 16-18
August 22-23 Got Doubles Stockton Trap & Skeet (CA) Canceled
August 28-29 Chili Peppers 20-28 Polk County Gun Club (NC) Canceled
August 28-30 The Magnolia Whitetail Ridge Outdoors (MS) Canceled
August 28-30 C. H. Metcalf/Joe George Open Sudlersville Skeet Club (MD) Canceled
September 5 Waco Doubles Classic Waco Skeet & Trap Club (TX) Canceled
September 11-13 Thunder Bird Open Memphis Sport Shooting Association (TN) Canceled
September 11-13 Hurricane Open Hurlburt Clay Target Sports Club (FL) Canceled
September 12 Lone Star Doubles Amarillo Gun Club (TX) Rescheduled for September 18
September 18-20 Idaho State Championship Boise Gun Club (ID) Canceled
October 10 Poule D'eau Open (28ga Marathon) Lafayette Skeet Club (LA) Canceled
October 11 Poule D'eau Open (.410 Marathon) Lafayette Skeet Club (LA) Canceled
October 17 Big Game Open Ben Avery Clay Target Center (AZ) Canceled
October 23-25 The Tildon Downing Challenge Durham County Wildlife Club (NC) Canceled
December 5-7 Cold & Snowy Open Imperial Polk Gun Club (FL) Renamed JB Maszk Hall of Fame

Prolific Shooter Tom Lause Passes Away

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Tom LauseNSSA regrets to report that John Thomas (Tom) Lause, 74, passed away on November 9, 2016, after a short battle with lung cancer.

Tom started shooting skeet in 1978 and registered over 250,000 targets. He had many skeet victories but was most proud of shooting 100 as a Veteran in the .410 event at the 2015 World Skeet Championships. He earned a place on the NSSA and Florida All-American Teams for many years. He was a highly respected member of the skeet community — both on the field and in his years of service to skeet. He proudly represented Florida as an NSSA Director and the Florida Southern vice president. For many years he helped with the administration of multiple shoots and was an avid supporter of the Florida Youth Camp and new shooters.

Tom was a Navy veteran and worked as a paving contractor.

He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Carolyn, and many friends. Contributions in Tom’s memory can be made to Hope Hospice, 9470 HealthPark Circle, Fort Myers, FL 33908, 239-482-4673.

This Month In Clay Target Nation

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The April issue of Clay Target Nation is packed full of tips and tactics that will help you find more success and have more fun on the sporting clays course or the skeet field this season.

In our Training Tips columns, John Shima offers advice on renewing your enthusiasm for shooting if you’ve found the game just isn’t what it used to be. Meanwhile, Anthony Matarese Jr. has some insight on what your coach expects from you during and after a lesson.

Also from Anthony is his last feature in a three-part series about Why We Miss, followed by a helpful article by instructor Tim Short on how new skeet shooters can step up their game quickly. Stuart Brown has an article on barrel reference and how skeet shooters can master it, while Clayton Rue goes over what he calls the Shooting Cycle: an endless loop of shot planning, shot execution and shot assessment. Dr. Ed Lyons introduces us to several tools you can use to actually train your vision and use it in ways you never could before. And finally, famed shotgun writer Phil Bourjaily reports on the differences between lead shot and steel shot, with the help of some well-known shooters.

Advertisers in the April issue are:

Clay Target Nation is available monthly to all members in digital and/or print form. Not a member? You can receive the next issue when you join at http://nssa-nsca.org/join-nssa-nsca/.

Nominations Open for NSSA Board of Directors

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Nominations are now open through April 23 for members of the NSSA Board of Directors for the 2027-2028 term.

Each state, province, U.S. military service branch, and other regions with sufficient membership will elect at least one Director, with the number based on the number of members there as of December 31, 2025. Click here to see the number of Directors each state / province / territory is entitled to.

Candidates must be current, paid NSSA members; complimentary members and Crossfire shooters are not eligible. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age on January 1, 2027 to be eligible to serve. Members who wish to run for the position must submit a nomination form with the endorsement of their state association OR the signatures of five (5) paid NSSA members from the same state / province / territory / branch. 

Military members (active duty, veteran, or retired) may run for and vote in either their state of residence or their branch of service, but not both.

Current Directors may run for the office again, but they are not automatically placed on the ballot. The nomination / election procedure is the same as for other candidates.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE

1. Complete a Nomination Form. Download the Director Nomination form and provide all the requested information.

2. Obtain endorsement signature(s). You may obtain either the signature of an officer of your state association OR the signatures of five (5) current, paid NSSA members from your state / province / territory / branch. 

  • If obtaining the signature of an officer, complete that area on the nomination form.
  • If obtaining signatures of five members, use the separate NSSA Director Candidate Endorsements page. You may have all five to sign that form and submit all signatures at once, or you may submit individual forms for each signatory. To do the latter, simply download the form, email it to your endorsers, and request that they sign and email the form to us. Make sure the candidate’s name and state, province, territory, or military branch is filled in at the top.

3. Email nomination form and endorsements to NSSAElection@nssa-nsca.com.

4. NEW – Complete a brief bio. Click on this link to provide some information about yourself. While this is not required to be able to run for the position, you are encouraged to do so to allow your potential voters to make an informed decision.

5. Watch for our confirmation. Once your nomination form has been vetted for having met all requirements, you will receive an email advising that it has been received and accepted. If all requirements are not met, you will receive an email explaining what is needed to complete your submission. If you don’t receive an email, please allow three (3) business days after your submission before contacting us at NSSAElection@nssa-nsca.com to check on it. If you are running for a position, please add NSSAElection@nssa-nsca.com to your address book to ensure you receive our email.

Download Director Nomination Form

Download Candidate Endorsements Form

Provide Candidate Biography

The deadline to submit nomination materials is April 23, 2026.

Following the election of Zone 1-9 Directors, Directors-at-Large will be elected. Directors-at-Large will be nominated following a similar procedure as other Directors: Candidates will complete a nomination form with endorsement signatures, and current Directors will vote on them by electronic ballot.

Key dates for NSSA Director Elections:

  • Deadline for nominations: April 23
  • Ballots sent to membership: By the first Monday in May (May 4)
  • Voting closes: Midnight CT, May 31
  • Director-at-Large nominations accepted: June 15 – July 15
  • DAL voting by Directors: July 16-31

 

 

NSSA-NSCA Recognition Programs Delayed by IT Upgrades

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We know many of our members are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the NSSA and NSCA Recognition Teams. As part of important upgrades to our IT infrastructure designed to better serve our members, the announcements will be released slightly later than originally anticipated.

We appreciate your patience as we complete these improvements. Our team is working diligently to finalize and share this information, and we look forward to recognizing our members very soon.

Thank you for your continued support of NSSA and NSCA.

 

Attention Referees: We’re Hiring for the World Shoot

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The World Skeet Championships will be here before you know it, and we’re busy making sure we have enough staff on hand to make it run smoothly. The NSSA is looking for well-qualified referees to officiate the event, held from September 25 – October 3, 2026. To attract the best referees, we’re offering excellent pay, hotel accommodations for non-local refs, a travel stipend for full-time refs working the Mini and Main, daily lunch, and a fuel stipend for local referees. Referees wanting to work the Mini World and shoot the Main events are welcome to apply. You can apply to work the Mini, the Main or both.

Applications are being submitted online this year. Apply here.

Complete the Referee Application

 

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