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Clay Shoot
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Support the work of beyond the walls while enjoying a late summer morning at one of the finest private shooting clubs in the country. No animals will be harmed as you take aim and shoot at sporting clays while taking in the beauty of the over 3,000 acres that make up Hudson Farm, 270 Stanhope-Sparta Road, Andover, New Jersey. For more information on sporting clays, see the description below.
Schedule:
Registration: 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 a.m.
Cannon Start: 9:00 a.m.
Buffet Lunch: 12:00 noon
Prize:
High gun (best score) we will win a round of clays for 4 at the Farm or a guided hunt for 2.
Cost:
Cost Per Shooter: $300; kids 16 and under: $175 (includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch)
Family members are invited to join shooters for lunch at noon. Cost per family member: $50, Children under 12: $20
More Info:
Golf Attire: Collared shirt required, no blue jeans
Break-open guns only, factory ammo only
Shotguns provided if needed
Instruction is available for novices who want to try something new.
Registration:
Register Online or download the registration form and mail with your payment to:
beyond the walls
P.O. Box 525
Mendham, NJ 07945
About Sporting Clays:
For those who have never enjoyed the challenging and exhilarating sport of sporting clays, we have reprinted here a description from Wikipedia:
Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting. Sometimes described as “golf with a shotgun,” the sport differs from trap and skeet shooting in that:
- It is more difficult than trap or skeet.
- It involves shooting clay targets while positioned at multiple locations (called stations).
- Unlike trap and skeet, which are games of repeatable target presentations, sporting clays targets are thrown in a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations and distances.
The original idea behind sporting clays was to create an experience that closely reflected actual hunting conditions. Whereas top-tier trap and skeet professionals may have hit ratings nearing 100%, the best sporting clay shooters hit their targets only about 93% to 95% of the time.
A typical course will consist of 10 to 18 stations [Hudson Farm offers 20 stations], each station having a pair of clay-throwing machines, called traps. Varying numbers of clay pairs are shot at each station, with the total shots for an outing adding up to 50 or 100 (two or four boxes of shells, respectively). Advanced shooters have the clays thrown as simultaneous pairs, while novice or intermediate shooters can opt for the clays to be thrown on report (the second clay launched on the report of the shooter’s gun, hence the name report pair). Targets are thrown at different angles and speeds, across the shooter’s view (crossers), toward the shooter (in-comers), away from the shooter (out-goers), or straight up in the air. The shots are intended to simulate hunting for quail, pheasant, pigeon, and other game.
