The December issue of Clay Target Nation is packed with tips and advice from our experts as well as coverage of the National Sporting Clays Championship. In our Training Tips columns, instructor Joe Gans encourages skeet shooters not to let their form, their gun fit or their fitness fall to the wayside this off-season, while Anthony Matarese Jr. offers nuggets of wisdom and advice on everything from the "cheat mount" to proper rotation. Of course, the National Sporting Clays Championship is the big news in this issue, and we've got a huge feature article on the event as well as shorter … [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...]
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...]
