The October 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 that learning how to shoot skeet isn’t just about improving your game — it’ll also help you become a better person along the way. Meanwhile, Anthony Matarese Jr. shares a personal anecdote about being disappointed with his performance and talks shooters through how to deal with not meeting their own expectations.
Competition season is in full swing heading into big year-end events, and this issue has coverage of the NSSA Zone Shoots, the PA State Skeet Championship, the Junior World Skeet Championships and the NSCA North Central Regional.
In our “From the Archives” article celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary, we are rerunning an article from 2026 discussing a question that shooter and instructor Gary Walstrom says is important to understand: What time tense do you shoot in? We also have a review of the new Fabarm Infinite RS side-by-side, an interesting opinion on whether sporting clays is an art or a science, and a cool look at some of the AI and virtual reality options for training skeet and sporting clays at home using new technology.
Advertisers in the October issue are:
- B&P
- Beretta
- Atlas Traps
- Blaser
- Briley
- Caesar Guerini
- Cole Fine Guns & Gunsmithing
- Elite Shotguns
- Fabarm
- Federal
- Fiocchi
- Laporte
- Lazy J Sporting Club
- Lockton Affinity
- MOJO
- Negrini
- NWTF
- Orion Outdoors
- Pacific Sporting Arms
- Paxton Arms
- Promatic
- Remington
- Robert Louis Company
- Safari Club International (SCI)
- Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation
- Sportsman’s Insurance Agency, Inc. (SIAI)
- Syren
- The Deadpair Podcast
- Winchester/White Flyer
- Wrapid Comb
- Zoli
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/.
