Prices for 5 Stand/Sporting Clays?

I pay $4.50 as a member with a 12 round card, I think it's $5 for non-members. Ontario. If that is profitable or not to the club I do not know.
 
A lot has to do with costs to the club and your freight charges for clays are much higher than clubs nearer to a major centre like Vancouver or Toronto.
 
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Your cost for setting up and running a 5 stand operation at your club has to reflect your total cost of set up and operation. Purchasing traps (7 to 8 of them) and a control system, (w-card or long range target counters}will cost $60,000 to $70,000. Then you have to count in the cost of the targets per round, $3.00 and the personal to run the 5 stand all day, $14.25 per hour. So at our club where we have been running a 5 stand for over twenty years we charge $6.50 per round, which gives us a small profit per round. Not a lot as you can see from the figures above.
 
All shotgun disciplines at our Club are $5/round for members.
I'm sure you also know to look at the price you pay per round and the volume shot. If you already have the machines then that's one less expense to consider.

Special events in sporting clays can sometimes have an extra fee as we hire trap boys (usually the teenage kids of members looking for a bit of pocket money for the day) to run the machines. Usually just an extra $5 / shooter for the day (not per round).
 
Clay target prices have been going up. Our last shipment of White Flyers (July 2020) was $18.95 delivered to southern BC, taxes not included. Unless you are buying a semi trailer load at a time, I doubt if you can get these delivered to Telkwa for under $20 per case. Add GST and PST and you are at $22.40 per case. Like it or not, you are going to have waste;... broken birds from shipping, machine malfunctions, verifying targets after machines are set up and shooters who want to try that presentation just once more. You might get by with 10% waste so all in you are over $0.18 per target and need $4.60 per round of 25 just to cover target costs. $2.00 per round margin for the club is not unreasonable. As Bert points out, machine and other equipment costs need to be covered as well. If you are a small club, perhaps you will throw 25,000 targets per year which gives you $2,000 margin. Doesn't go far in covering your overall costs. Realistically you need to charge $10.00 per round but of course that won't fly. I know of a small number of clubs who charge only $3.00 per round and claim they are making lots of money at it but we certainly can't do it.
 
Our setup won't be as elaborate as those in Toronto or Vancouver and it will probably run once a week. We charge 4.75 a round for trap so 5.00 or 6.00 won't be out of line. The trick will be to interest a bunch of new or different shooters for this. A lot of them won't shoot trap for various reasons. There are plenty of other threads on that subject. Apparently it's too easy. :rolleyes:
 
As I said in my previous thread you have to cover costs. The cost of targets alone cost us $2.80, but you have to round it out to $3.00 for breakage and malfunctions. Our club throws just under 2,000,000 targets a year or one tractor trailer every six weeks. So I don't know how other clubs can sell targets at $3.00 round and say they are making money. The math just doesn't add up. Am I missing something?
 
Our club charges 6$, same as for trap or skeet. Part of the overall economics is the recovery of missed birds. 5 stand offers the potential for recovery more than skeet or trap, in our case, around 30%. Its a mindless, backbreaking task, ideal for a couple of youngsters looking for bit of pin money...
 
$20.00 - $25.00 +/- is still pretty cheap for a day of 5-stand, compared to a round of golf or Blue Jays tickets ! Just don't price yourselves out to lunch locally.
Both Sporting Clays and 5-stand will provide a lot of new and renewed interest for shooting at your Club ! I've seen it first hand at four different Clubs over the years !
 
Where I shoot it's $5.00 per round. We only have trap but we play games more than anything else. You will see 2 or 3 shooters for every bird launched. Other than membership fees trap is the only thing that contributes significant money to the range.
 
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As I said in my previous thread you have to cover costs. The cost of targets alone cost us $2.80, but you have to round it out to $3.00 for breakage and malfunctions. Our club throws just under 2,000,000 targets a year or one tractor trailer every six weeks. So I don't know how other clubs can sell targets at $3.00 round and say they are making money. The math just doesn't add up. Am I missing something?
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Hard to say. All our labour is volunteer. The land is owned outright by the club. Taxes are minimal. We certainly couldn't afford to pay groundskeepers and people to run the traps. Not enough customers anyway. We had 10 people shooting trap on Sunday. As differences go, Telkwa and Toronto might as well be on another planet.
 
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