A heavy fog shrouded the mountain as I shouldered the shotgun. “Pull!” I signaled, and a clay bird screamed through the misty air from my right. I sighted down the barrel as I swung to my left and ...

Like most top-notch instructors, Steve Middleditch knows what his students are thinking -- or not thinking, as is often the case with golfers, shotgunners and other athletes when they're off the mark.

Black clouds threatened rain in every direction Thursday night, but the bad weather missed the Dakota Hunting Club and Kennels southwest of Grand Forks. Good thing, too, because about 20 kids were ...

Sporting Clays for the uninitiated is not a new form of working in clay pottery. It's part of a recreational target-shooting program with a shotgun. Men, women, and youth participate in the different ...

Spring and summer are a great time to improve your shotgun skills for the upcoming hunting season, and I can’t think of a better way to do this than with a steady diet of trap, skeet, and sporting ...

Bill McGuire busts sporting clays with a speed and economy of movement that hint at the national and world championships he has won during 18 years of competitive shooting. His Blaser F3 shotgun -- ...

Jerome Holden knows exactly when he got into sporting clays. “July 8, 30 years ago, I found out about sporting clays at a club at Chandler,” he said. Working in a local print shop a week earlier, a ...

Of all the clay target disciplines, sporting clays remains the most fun. No two courses are the same, and no single course stays the same for long. Variety keeps the game fresh no matter how much you ...

A shooting sport most everyone can enjoy is growing across the nation. Sporting clays is an event where you use a shotgun to shoot clay targets that are tossed into the air or across the ground. There ...