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.

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 ...

Clay birds make the best reactive targets of all. They come at you, fly away, cross, drop, bounce on the ground, and you never tire of seeing all the different ways they break: into big pieces, little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...