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COVID-19 Update: Postponed or Canceled Events

July 27, 2020 By Sherry Kerr

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

November 21, 2016 By Sherry Kerr

NSSA 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.

Houston Deshotels Wins HOA at 2021 World Skeet Championships

October 10, 2021 By hdyer Leave a Comment

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.

Updated Ammunition Policy for World Shoot

August 26, 2021 By Sherry Kerr Leave a Comment

The National Shooting Complex has updated its ammunition policy for the upcoming World Skeet Championships to address availability issues:

We have been working diligently with all of our ammunition sponsors to secure as much ammunition as possible for the World Skeet Championships. Despite our efforts to ensure that we have enough ammunition on hand, we unfortunately WILL NOT have enough on site for everyone to purchase for everything they are planning to participate in. We have a great deal of ammunition on hand, but knowing the demand will be higher this year, we want to ensure there isn’t a shortage.

Based on this information, we strongly advise bringing your own ammunition, especially sub-gauge loads, to the event. Bringing your own is the only way to guarantee you will have ammunition to shoot.

This does not mean you cannot attend if you cannot bring your own ammo. Our request for participants to bring ammunition is to ensure that EVERY shooter is able to shoot EVERY event they want.

Many shooters already possess or have local access to all the ammunition they need for the World Shoot and the rest of their shooting year, and many shooters drive to the National Shooting Complex, making it easy for them to bring ammunition with them. If that applies to you, we encourage you to consider bringing yours to allow those who do not have and cannot acquire it locally, international shooters who cannot bring or ship theirs, and those for whom shipping is cost-prohibitive to purchase what they need at the event.

Sub-gauge loads are our primary concern, especially 20-gauge. As a reminder, reloads are allowed for all events.

If you must purchase ammunition at the event, please be aware that you will only be allowed to purchase enough to cover your competition events. Verification of event entry will be required to purchase ammunition. No practice ammunition will be sold at the event.

For participants flying to the World Skeet Championships, we advise shipping your ammunition. UPS guidelines for shipping can be viewed at UPS Guidelines (Scroll down for Shipping Ammunition). Ammunition should be sent to the participant’s name and reference the event. The mailing address is 5931 Roft Road, San Antonio, TX 78253.

Again, we are not requiring every shooter to bring ammunition to the National Championship. If you are one of the fortunate shooters to have adequate supplies and a means of transporting it to the NSC, we are asking you to help us ensure that EVERY shooter has access to what they need.

We understand this is an inconvenience and apologize in advance.

NSSA Scoreboard: Latest Shoot Results

July 21, 2021 By Sherry Kerr

Skeet Scoreboard — Click image to select the NSSA Scoreboard by month

Scores are shown in PDFs that can be viewed, printed, or downloaded.

See the Scoreboard by month.

NSSA Shoot Register: See Upcoming Shoots

July 21, 2021 By Sherry Kerr

You can plan your registered shooting events for the next three months with our printable NSSA Shoot Register.

So you won’t have to search through monthly target listings to find registered tournaments, we’ve separated those two categories into separate lists.

Our list is automatically updated weekly, so you can check back at any time to find events for the next three months, by state. You’ll also find Top 100, Zone, and State shoots on every month’s listing.

View/Download the NSSA Shoot Register – Tournaments

View/Download the NSSA Shoot Register – Monthly Targets

Photo Gallery: 2021 Kolar U.S. Open Skeet Championship

July 20, 2021 By hdyer Leave a Comment

With 785 shooters in the HOA, the 2021 Kolar U.S. Open iShoot was a success by all accounts. Held simultaneously at 15 different clubs across multiple states and time zones, the event saw terrific attendance and stiff competition. Stuart Brown, shooting at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, broke 399×400 to win HOA outright.

Enjoy this series of photos from various clubs. If you have photos from a club that’s not represented here, you can email them to hdyer@nssa-nsca.com, and we’ll be happy to add to our photo gallery.

Click on the photo to enlarge.