My place is a for profit business also.
Sporting clays with the biggest package 60 cents each.
$16 guest fee unless that’s added onto the $350 a year membership fee.
I wouldn’t expect it any other way honestly.
Cost per round ?
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My place is a for profit business also.
Sporting clays with the biggest package 60 cents each.
$16 guest fee unless that’s added onto the $350 a year membership fee.
I wouldn’t expect it any other way honestly.
Sporting clays requires a huge investment, so most facilities are private businesses, the small non profit clubs stick to trap and skeet, because it's what they can afford.
That’s the crux of the reason for my inquiry. Lunenburg Gun Club is a relatively small registered non profit club under 400 members. Sporting Clays course is one of the best in the Province , 12 stations of mostly MEC throwers along with skeet and trap fields.
A dedicated volunteer group of six or so keep things cleaned up and running for weekly shoots and scheduled competitions but there is that small segment that does nothing to help but complains that costs have to rise. General Meeting on 30th will hopefully put it to test.
Thank You to those that posted.
offer that they can go and buy their own clays to load the machines with.
7.50 wont seem so crazy then.
If a club here in Alberta wanted to build a 20-25 station sporting clays facility, they would have to purchase the real estate get all of the required approvals, develop the facility, and purchase around 50 machines/batteries/solar panels, and all electronics to operate the equipment. It would be very easy to spend a million dollars to get this done, so a huge investment, for a smaller club. On the other hand, a small trap facility requires much less real estate, one trap, and one trap house.
There are paid staff, but some of the members help out too.
Corporate events generate decent income.
Land is leased from the Airport Authority.
Primarily Trap, but there’s also some 5-Stand.
Yes, we’re lucky to have this place (fifteen minutes from my door).
Too bad it’s kinda close to a dragstrip… which can be loud and distracting.
Calgary has their nice ‘CFC’ range that’s affiliated with AHEIA.
Corporate events generate decent income.
Land is leased from the Airport Authority.
Primarily Trap, but there’s also some 5-Stand.
Yes, we’re lucky to have this place (fifteen minutes from my door).
Too bad it’s kinda close to a dragstrip… which can be loud and distracting.
Calgary has their nice ‘CFC’ range that’s affiliated with AHEIA.
The club I'm presently a member of charges paid members $105 for a strip of tickets good for ten rounds of Trap or Skeet. Same tickets are apparently good for five-stand and sporting clays, per their pricelist, though I don't shoot those disciplines. They are definitely a for-profit outfit.
That said, their gift shop sells 12-gauge target loads over-the-counter at a far better price than I can find anywhere else -- especially when I factor-in freight, and the inconvenience of picking the the stuff up at the courier's terminal.
That said, their gift shop sells 12-gauge target loads over-the-counter at a far better price than I can find anywhere else -- especially when I factor-in freight, and the inconvenience of picking the the stuff up at the courier's terminal.
The bottom line, is that you have to pay for targets, and for maintenance /repairs of the facility. It costs money to repair/maintain machines, to cut grass, to pay for power, etc. Our club is multi discipline, so the cost of snow removal/lawn mowing is shared amongst the disciplines, for a shotgun only club, you have to pay all maintenance/repairs, between membership fees and target prices.
Certainly, one member attended to pitch the snowball a few had put together without any research. He was presented with a spreadsheet of the costs compared to previous orders with last order in 2022 when we got a full trailer from Lawrys. As well, referred to PM’s on this post of other clubs going through the same.
We had held the cost of $5.00 per round since I started shooting there in 1998 but being a small multi discipline club sections have to pay their own way although overlaps for mowing, snow clearing and such are shared.
Motion approved to the $7.50 per round as proposed with a reduction on guest shooter costs.
Unfortunate that the ones complaining of the cost increases do nothing to help with the volunteer day to day maintenance.
We had held the cost of $5.00 per round since I started shooting there in 1998 but being a small multi discipline club sections have to pay their own way although overlaps for mowing, snow clearing and such are shared.
Motion approved to the $7.50 per round as proposed with a reduction on guest shooter costs.
Unfortunate that the ones complaining of the cost increases do nothing to help with the volunteer day to day maintenance.
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We had to move our entire Spirting Clays field setup to another part of the property about four years ago due to the fallout area of lead shot. About six of us started cutting on an old woods road in the winter and were fully operational for the spring. Guests are welcome - 10 AM on Saturdays.
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Always the case no matter what hobby, sport or interest a group spends time putting something together.
$7.00 for 25 at Silverdale GC in the Niagara Region.
