Article: ARIZONA YOUTHS WIN NATIONAL TITLES AT SHOOTING COMPETITION

Article: SHOOTING Q & A: JON KRUGER; Questions? He'll give it a shot; Sporting clays national champ touts his sport.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  August 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Staff Writer Seven-time U.S. Open sporting clays champion Jon Kruger, 42, is giving...himself as one of the world's premier sporting clays competitors. In the interview below...there direct ties between being a good sporting clays shooter and a good wingshot? A: There...

Article: Sporting Clays: A New Way of Riding Shotgun
The Washington Post;  March 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Sporting clays, the challenging target-shooting game...It was only a matter of time before sporting clays got on the cart wagon, too. That time...and were invited to join a round of sporting clays with our bird-hunting partners. "Stick...

Article: Sporting clays? The English are getting even
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  April 25, 2002 ;     531 words ......holding the fifth annual Capital-Journal Sporting Clays Classic. It will be at Ravenwood Hunting Preserve & Sporting Clays, just a few miles from where I live. You'd think if you had a sporting clays course practically in your backyard, you...

Article: Clays from coast to coast. (Sporting Clays) (Column)
Outdoor Life;  July 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......My mission was clear: to sample the sporting clays shooting in each state I visited, looking...hand insight into the state of the sporting clays industry. As I traveled, one of my first revelations was the huge number of sporting clays facilities now available. When I first...

Article: More guns for sporting clays. (Arms & Ammo)
Sports Afield;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Variations on existing designs open sporting clays to everyone. It was only 10 years ago that Sports...to the U.S., at any rate - shotgun game of sporting clays. This year, sporting clays shotgun sales have been so brisk that companies...

Article: SHOOTERS NEEDN'T LOOK FAR FOR FEATS OF SPORTING CLAYS.(SPORTS)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ......targets ready to give you another chance. Sporting clays is the name of this shotgun competition...in a live-fire target shooting game. Sporting clays, however, does a remarkable job of...encounters in the field. ``The game of sporting clays is a lot like golf with a shotgun...

Article: Sporting clays; It's like hunting pheasants, grouse and ducks at the same time. No wonder shooters are flocking to the courses.(SPORTS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 11, 1996 ;     671 words ......dozens of places around Minnesota: sporting clays. The sport, which involves shooting...finishing up the league season at Red Oak Sporting Clays near Avon, a course carved out of the...game farm there. Fischer, is an avid sporting clays shooter, and the sporting clays ...

Article: Going long: sporting clays shooters' new affinity for longer barrels is right on target . (Column)
Outdoor Life;  May 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Sporting clays shooters' new affinity for longer...Things are also beginning to shift in sporting clays. When first introduced to the United...winning prizes. But more competitive sporting clays shooters have taken a more serious...

Article: Nancy Ebert _ a top gun at sporting clays. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 18, 1993 ;     494 words ......America's fastest-growing shooting sport _ sporting clays. Sporting clays is an offshoot of skeet and trap, long-standing...while skeet and trap have limited variety, sporting clays is much more like hunting. Shooters fire from...

Article: FEATS OF CLAY SPORTING CLAYS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BLOOD SPORTS.(Sports)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 6, 1990 ;     700+ words ......Auen shouldered his Beretta 687 Sporting Clays shotgun across the leather padding of an Orvis Sporting Clays vest, adjusted a pair of shooter...shells. With all their official sporting clays gear, Auen, an internal medicine...

Article: Faux hunting: sporting clays is the closest thing to being afield.
New York State Conservationist;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......was my introduction to the game of sporting clays. Like shooting skeet or trap, the object of sporting clays is to knock down moving clay targets...where or how the next one will fly. Sporting clays originated in Britain in the 1920s...

Article: A round of sporting clays can help hone shooting skills
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Nemitz, of Hartland, is the Wisconsin Sporting Clays Association's 1996 state champion...Brian Johnson of Pewaukee, a certified sporting clays instructor, in shooting a round of sporting clays recently at the McMiller Sports Center...

Article: Sporting clays are 'infinitely variable,' shooter says
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  July 26, 2004 ;     415 words ......with a grimace from a tough round of sporting clays at the Sunflower State Games. By Randy...Sunflower State Games commissioner for sporting clays, calls the event "a lifelong sport...going on, other than hunting, until sporting clays started," he said. "They began in England...

Article: A sure shot on clay; Sporting clays champion is `as good as it gets'.(SPORTS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  August 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......37, is considered the preeminent sporting clays shooter in the nation and probably the world. He's a sporting clays national champion, world champion...and first inductee into the new Sporting Clays Hall of Fame in San Antonio, Texas...