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This Month In Clay Target Nation

July 26, 2025 By hdyer

With skeet and sporting clays competitions in full swing, the August issue of Clay Target Nation is packed with event coverage as well as tips and advice from our experts.

In our Training Tips columns, Paul Giambrone III advises shooters that yes, there are sometimes reasons to take a shooting break and helps you figure out when it’s time to stop shooting for a while. Clayton Rue offers sporting clays shooters a unique way to think about their shots while incorporating some famous movie quotes in his Training Tip titled “What’s Our Vector?”

The Kolar U.S. Open gets full coverage in this issue, including a photo gallery from several different clubs. We’ve also got an article covering the NSCA Northeast Regional and the Texas State Skeet Championships.

In our “From the Archives” article celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary, Tom Roster warns shooters that lead distance tables aren’t accurate enough to rely on. Anthony Matarese Jr. has a feature that will give you some insight on when it’s time to change up your game, and Victoria Stellato offers tips on achieving your peak performance. Finally, don’t miss our article interviewing some of sporting clays’s top shooters about the practice routines that work for them.

Advertisers in the August issue are:

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  • Briley
  • Caesar Guerini
  • Cole Fine Guns & Gunsmithing
  • Fabarm
  • Federal
  • Fiocchi
  • Lazy J Sporting Club
  • Lockton Affinity
  • Negrini
  • NWTF
  • Orion Outdoors
  • Pacific Sporting Arms
  • Paxton Arms
  • Promatic
  • Remington
  • 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/.

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Houston Deshotels Wins HOA at 2021 World Skeet Championships

October 10, 2021 By hdyer

2021 World Skeet Championships HOA winners, left to right: Steven Wood, third; Houston Deshotels, champion; and Taylor Nicosia, runner-up

The NSSA congratulates Houston Deshotels, who won both HOA and HAA at the 2021 World Skeet Championships, held October 4-8 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio.

Deshotels was perfect going into Friday’s .410 bore event, where he dropped only one target to finish the World Skeet Championships with a score of 449. Taylor Nicosia, who had dropped a target earlier in the week in the 28-gauge event, shot 100 straight in the .410 to tie Deshotels at 449 for HOA. Deshotels was the victor in the shoot-off, giving him his first HOA World Skeet Championship. He was also Triple-Sub Champion. Nicosia finished as HOA runner-up and Lady Champion. She also won Lady Champion in the Wayne Mayes Championship event, Lady runner-up in the 20-gauge and the .410, and Lady third in the 28-gauge and doubles.

Steven Wood, Cooper Oliver and Dessislav Ivanov battled it out in a shoot-off of 447s for the third spot on the HOA podium; Ivanov went out first and finished AAA1. Oliver went out next, finishing AA1, which left Wood as HOA third. Other class winners were Katie Hunt, A1; Tim Robinson, B1; Katie Lackey, C1; Michael Rykaczewski Sr., D1; and Steve Scales, E1. Katherine Adams was Lady runner-up, and Lauren Burge was Lady third.

With a score of 549, Deshotels was also HAA Champion, with Nicosia runner-up (547) and Ivanov third (546).

Also winning World Championships were Josh Poole, doubles and .410 bore; Robert Hicklin, 12-gauge; Michael Schmidt, 20-gauge; and Ryan Smithart, 28-gauge.

The previous weekend, at the Mini World, HOA winners included Alessandro Vitale, champion; Mike Woolard, runner-up; and Riley Chaddock, third. Vitale was also HAA Champion. Taylor Nicosia won doubles, Edward Smith won the 12-gauge, Michael Rykaczewski Jr. won the 20-gauge, and Josh Poole won the .410 bore. Wayne Mayes Championship winners were Ivanov, champion; Paul Newman, runner-up; and Nicosia, third.

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Attention Referees: We’re Hiring for the World Shoot

July 6, 2021 By hdyer

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 October 1-8, 2021. 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 October 1-3 and shoot the Main events on October 4-8 are welcome to apply. You can apply to work the Mini, the Main or both.

Applicants should note that for 2021, we are not using the Briley wand, as a sanitation precaution.

 

Download 2021 World Shoot Referee Information

Download 2021 World Shoot Referee Application

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