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The club has seven Shotgun Ranges for shooting. Field seven is used for five stand sporting clays.

Sporting Clays

<h2>Public Use</h2>
<p>The Sporting Clay Facilities are not open to the public. Shooting Instructors are available for lessons to non-members and members. For clays-certified club members regular fun matches of 75 or 100 birds are scheduled three times a week.</p>
<h2>What is Five Stand Sporting Clays?</h2>
<p>The game of Sporting Clays, often called golf with a shotgun, is designed to more closely simulate actual hunting conditions. While some courses actually involve walking through the woods to stations for various target presentations. At DCWC we offer a variant somewhat similar to Sporting Clays, called"5 Stand Sporting". In this version shooters are positioned in five so-called cages an a host of machines in the field provide a variety of target presentations to the shooters in these “cages”. 5- Stand Clays sports are fully recognized by the NSCA (National Sporting Clays Association). It is a quick reflex game that will challenge any level of shooter while providing a lot of fun.</p>
<p>The DCWC 5 Stand Field is currently equipped with 28 machines for an incredible variety in possible target presentations. The different targets presented include all kinds of sporting clays/5-Stand target types such as regular targets, midi, mini, rabbit, rabbue, and battue target types.</p>
<p>Five Stand has five stations or cages, one for each shooter. Usually 75 to 100 targets are shot as singles, reporting pairs or true pairs in a so-called rotation (squad). A trapper controls the shooting sequence and when shooters move from one cage to the next.</p>
<p>Each shooting station has a unique combination of target presentations written on a program card. One program card is placed in front of the shooter and a second program card with the same unique combination of targets is placed behind the shooter for the trapper. Rotating from station to station, the shooter is presented with targets at different viewing angles of the target. This provides a nearly endless number of possibilities.</p>
<p>The sequences are sets of target presentations.</p>
<p>Any gauge gun may be used and there are shoots dedicated to sub-gauge at times. 12 and 20 gauge are most popular. Optimal shot sizes are #7-1/2, and #8. Note that shot sizes LARGER than #7-1/2 are prohibited at the DCWC facility.</p>
<p>As Always: EYE AND EAR PROTECTION MUST BE WORN WHILE ON THE FIELDS.</p>


Sporting Clays - Durham County Wildlife Club

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