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This Month In Clay Target Nation

August 25, 2025 By hdyer

The September 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 to accept their skills where they are while striving for improvement, and Gil Ash explains that some target presentations really are better shot with an unmounted gun.

Sporting clays’ two big international events, the World FITASC and World English Sporting Clays Championship, are both covered in this issue, and you can read all about how the USA Sporting Clays Team fared against the rest of the world. We also have coverage of the Kolar Mid-America.

In our “From the Archives” article celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary, we are rerunning an article from 2026 discussing a question that’s still being asked today: “Are sporting targets getting too hard?” On the skeet side, Paul Giambrone III has some advice for anyone who is struggling to close out that elusive 100 straight, and we take a deep dive into the guns used by top shooters Billy D. Williams, Sheaffer Stanfill and reigning HOA World Champion John Barnes. Finally, don’t miss Phil Bourjaily’s review of the Beretta 688.

Advertisers in the September issue are:

  • Atlas Traps
  • Blaser
  • Briley
  • Caesar Guerini
  • Clay Target Instruction
  • Cole Fine Guns & Gunsmithing
  • Decot
  • Elite Shotguns
  • Fabarm
  • Federal
  • Fiocchi
  • Krieghoff
  • Laporte
  • Lazy J Sporting Club
  • Lockton Affinity
  • MEC Outdoors
  • 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
  • Teague Chokes
  • 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/.

Filed Under: homepage section 1, National Shooting Complex, NSCA News, NSSA News Tagged With: advertisers, Clay Target Nation, sponsors

Thank You to World Shoot Sponsors

October 10, 2019 By Sherry Kerr

NSSA and participants of the 2019 World Skeet Championships wish to express our appreciation to the many sponsors whose support enriched the event in so many ways. To those who sponsored gun events, parties, prizes and awards, dinners, and special events or provided overall sponsorship for the World Shoot — we thank you. Please consider the support of these companies when you are making purchasing decisions:

Academy Sports + Outdoors
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
Blaser
Briley
Browning
Chick-Fil-A
Cole Fine Guns
Decot Hy-Wyd
Elite Shotguns
E-Z-GO
Federal
Kolar
Krieghoff
Laporte
MEC
National Shooting Sports Foundation
Negrini Cases
Paxton Arms
Remington
Rio
SIAI
Slumba
Tachyon
White Flyer
Winchester

Filed Under: National Shooting Complex, NSSA News Tagged With: sponsors, World Skeet Championships

2020-2024 Kolar U.S. Open iShoot Approved by EC

February 27, 2019 By Sherry Kerr

Two major changes are in store for the U.S. Open starting in 2020. Kolar has offered and the Executive Committee has approved a five-year title sponsorship of the event for the years 2020 through 2024, during which it will be known as the Kolar U.S. Open. In addition, the EC has approved the adoption of an iShoot format to increase participation and allow all members to participate by providing satellite sites at clubs closer to their homes. “Our goal is to deliver the U.S. Open to you in a traditional weekend format, Friday to Sunday; bring a national-level shoot to a club closer to you; and expand participants across our states, provinces, and zones,” the EC reported.

The EC took the action during a December 10, 2018 phone conference to discuss the U.S. Open Committee’s report exploring an iShoot format for the U.S. Open.

Kolar’s title sponsorship will provide $15,000 annually in prize money, U.S. Open rings, guns, and awards.

Host club bidding criteria will be published in February for clubs desiring to serve as one of the iShoot satellite sites. The National Shooting Complex will serve as shoot management and host club for participants.

Details are being finalized and will be publicized throughout 2019.

 

Filed Under: NSSA News Tagged With: Executive Committee, iShoot, Kolar, sponsors, U.S. Open

Thank You to World Skeet Championships Sponsors

October 9, 2017 By Sherry Kerr

NSSA and participants in the 2017 World Skeet Championships wish to thank the many sponsors of this year’s event, without whom the World Shoot would not be the same. From funding to shooters’ gifts to winners’ awards, the contributions of our generous sponsors are essential to having such a memorable, world-class event. We urge our members to consider the contributions of our sponsors when you are making decisions about purchases in the future.

Sponsors of the 2017 World Skeet Championships include:

Academy Sports & Outdoors
Ainsworth Trucking
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
Blaser USA
Briley Manufacturing Co.
Browning
Chick-fil-A
Decot Hy-Wyd
Elite Shotguns
E-Z-Go
Federal Ammunition
Kolar Arms
Krieghoff International
Laporte
MEC
Negrini Cases
National Shooting Sports Foundation
Paxton Arms
Remington
Rio Ammunition
Sportsman’s Insurance Agency, Inc.
Tachyon GunCam
White Flyer
Winchester Ammunition

Filed Under: National Shooting Complex, NSSA News Tagged With: National Shooting Complex, NSSA, skeet, sponsors, World Skeet Championships

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