"I am a Life Member. Why have I stopped receiving my magazine in the mail?" Life Members are required to shoot a minimum of 100 registered targets each year to maintain your print subscription to Clay Target Nation. Once you shoot the required targets and they are reported to headquarters, the subscription should restart automatically within 6-8 weeks. However, every member is entitled to the digital issue. We email members a link to it monthly (late in the month, a few days before print magazines arrive). If you aren't receiving the link to the digital issue, contact us at CTN@nssa-nsca.com … [Read more...]
The Challenges and Opportunities of Member Communications
You probably can't name a sport with memberships more diverse than skeet and sporting clays. Because they can be pursued successfully and with enjoyment by people of virtually any age or gender, we have the good fortune of memberships from young to old, male and female, novice to world championship levels. Members span wide-ranging income levels, vocations, and locations. Some participate in sporting clays or skeet exclusively, while others shoot both sports through dual memberships or the Crossfire program. Our members span all levels of technological expertise. Our diversity presents us not … [Read more...]
Anthony Matarese Brings World Championship to USA
Anthony Matarese Jr. has become the first American ever to win the World English Sporting Championship, taking the individual Gold Medal last week on the E.J. Churchill Shooting Grounds in England. Matarese finished the regulation main event with a three-target lead and held the margin through the six-man super final shoot-off to earn the World Championship. Mike Wilgus also qualified for the super final and finished the competition sixth overall. NSSA-NSCA's Clay Target Nation magazine recently profiled Matarese as a hard-working, driven competitor and for his wide-ranging activities in … [Read more...]
Send Us Your Shoot Wrap-ups and News
With our new magazine format and website, NSSA-NSCA has the opportunity to include reports from many of your shoots, along with photos. While we will have writers covering the largest of sporting clays and skeet events, we'd love to recognize some of those that we won't be covering ourselves. If you participated in an event, especially if you shot high-quality photos, you are invited to send us a shoot wrap-up. We will be including some shoot reports in our printed magazine, some on ClayTargetNation.com, and some in both places. We also expect - especially when there's a good selection … [Read more...]
The Story of Our First Cover Photo
As you might imagine, planning for the first issue of Clay Target Nation began many months ago, but no decision had our editorial team more stumped than the first cover. Of course, it had to be special and set the tone for the months and years to follow. But with coverage of both the World Skeet Championships and National Sporting Clays Championship planned for the inaugural issue, and an earnest desire to spread the wealth evenly between sporting clays and skeet topics, who would get the cover? One of those head-scratching sessions yielded this statement from yours truly: "Let's have both … [Read more...]
