5-Stand and Sporting Clays League

[OverUnder725]

With our clubs new sporting clays coarse heading into its first full season, I am looking for ways to get shooters out regularly and thought a sporting clays league may help. I was thinking so many rounds shot during a prescribed time period, likely one round per week, then post your scores on the chart in the clubhouse. At the end of the period, have a social night, a few draws and door prizes. Nothing to competitive but something so shooters can track their progress and see how improvement comes with regular shooting. I also thought we could apply the same formula to the 5-stand. Any thoughts from similar programs at your club?

 

[jjj99]

This past summer Galt sportsman club held a Beretta summer series every Wednesday for 8 weeks. To be entered into the grand prize draw you had to go to 5 out of 8 (cause life happens) and there was ways to compare standings over the summer.

It was alot of fun and great for me learning as they rotated targets over the summer and I got a chance to squad up with alot of really great shooters and see just how far I have to go.

Prior to that I had been shooting the once a month shoot at twin cities where they had a prize table. I believe Sydenham does similar except they had once a month with prizes and once a month without.

 

[Boomer686]

League shooting has worked for our club over the years. The best advice I can offer is to not make the minimum number of targets too high and offer as long a time frame as reasonably possible.
Too many rounds or too tight a time constraint and people balk.
We also charge a $30 registration fee with the best overall shooter getting 50% of the pot. We may offer up something different this year for novice shooters, youth and most improved instead of best average score.

 

[Scar270]

We ran a 5 stand league for a few years. We ran it for 10 weeks on wednesday nights. 50 birds/night. Winner was based off best 8 nights. We didnt allow make up shoots, because our course changes, so this way if you took a 0 or two because of life, it didnt knock you out entirely. If you made them all, it meant you got away with having a bad night.

 

[Shibby!]

I do something similar for 5 stand.

Best 7/10 scores count, three optional days of the week to shoot but you had to call your scoring night before you shoot. This way it made it fair for those who can only make one night vs those who may have got three tries to improve their weeks scores.

Worked well. I might lower it to 6/10 weeks this year. Haven’t decided yet.


We ended the year with a handi-cap shoo, member supplied BBQ, beers (after guns were put away) and some volunteer work at the range.

 

[OverUnder725]

Thanks for all the great ideas. I’m going to share them with the others on the committee. We haven’t had a league at our club for any decipline so any input is appreciated.

 

[gttsc]

We do this and its been very successful. We have a 5 stand shoot the third Wednesday evening of each month from May to August, with a catch up date in late August. 200 targets total for the summer (50 a month). I use a handicap system sort of like golf. After the first week, you get to add 66% of your missed targets to the following weeks score, not to exceed 50/50. It just adds a little dimension of gamesmanship to the event.

 

[the spank]

We didn’t have sporting clays and the 5-stand was still in development when I was on the exec at our club but I used to organize a winter league made up of 6 person teams. Our club was divided 50/50 skeet and trap shooters so our winter league shoots consisted of 50 targets, 25 skeet & 25 trap one sunday each month for the months of Jan through April. Each shoot commenced after a breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast and the final shoot we had a pancake breakfast. There was a one time entry fee to cover all 4 shoots and breakfasts. There was a plaque and each year the team with the high score at the end of the season had their names and score engraved on the plaque and a few small prizes were distributed for various scores and as a door draw. Only those who attended all 4 shoots were eligible for prizes. The top 5 scores for each team were kept, low score (6th) was thrown out. We also held a 50/50 cash prize draw each shoot and the money generated from the draws paid for the prizes and team plaque.

 

[Falconflyer]

Our club has been putting on an evening sporting clays shoot during the summer months for a number of years now. It was decided not to post scores for several reasons. We were hoping to lure out new shooters and hunters wanting to sharpen their skills as much as seasoned shooters and thought that we'd get more people out if we did that. I think the strategy worked and we've gotten many new people out to try sporting and trap. Most of these people don't shoot registered targets and don't have a handicap so it would be impossible to have them compete with the shooters who do have one. Our club is also a volunteer organisation and since it's so difficult getting people to do some work, we figured that posting scores was just extra work for the ones running the shoot. Anyway, there's plenty of side bets going on between members who need that kind of motivation to have fun!