Shotgun Sports USA: Sporting Clays, Skeet, trap and Hunting

In this episode we talk about the effects of Covid in the UK and how it has affected shooting sports.  We also discuss what you can do while you are not shooting and how you can at times come back better than before after a long break.  We dive into e-sports and the strong possibility of having clay target competitions remotely.......that would be weird, but it's possible.

Neil Chadwick, Target Setter and Course Designer is originally from a small village near Cambridge in the UK. He started shooting shotguns in the mid 60’s and was introduced to sporting clays in 1972. Neil shot for the Great Britain team in 1987 and moved to the US in 1991. He has now become one of the best in the world at setting championship level courses. Neil has been the official target sette...

I attended Shot Show 2020 and caught up with the Winchester Product Manager, Ben Frank.  Ben is very knowledgeable about ammunition as well as the parts and pieces that go into making one of the most legendary shotgun shells in the world, The AA. We also had Winchester team members Zach Kienbaum, Desirae Edmunds and Anthony Matarese Jr sitting in on this episode with us.  Zach and Desi had a lot o...

Over the past couple of weeks we have had very in depth conversations about the eyes with Dr. Richard Colo.  We thought that it would be a great time to bring back his very first episode out of our archives for you to listen to along with the others.   This episode is from 2019 with David Radulovich and Will Fennell, recorded at M&M in Pennsville NJ. during the US Open.

This is a continuation of episode 1.  Before you listen to this, please make sure that you have listened to our last podcast with Dr. Colo so that it all makes sense.  There is a lot of information in both of these episodes that strictly cover how your eyes work.  We all know that you have to be able to see what you are shooting at before you can shoot it, but the in depth topics on how your eyes...

In the 46 years that Dr. Colo has been in practice in CT, he has created a unique specialty niche related to shooting that has drawn both national and international shooters to his practice. Rich has developed a system of dominance evaluation that has been accepted as the benchmark among some of the nation’s top instructors. His role is not that of shooting instructor; rather, it is to maximize th...

From the episodes "the general and the private" to "cut while being cut", Andy Duffy always has an easy way of explaining things so that it's really easy to understand.  Andy is a very competitive sporting and FITASC shooter, an unbelievable instructor and an avid hunter.  His entire life is based off of pointing a shotgun.  In this episode he talks about how to be great a...

Providence Hill Farm is a 1,250-acre retreat set on beautiful rolling hills in central Mississippi. Built as a family escape, the property has every amenity for the exceptional sporting life. The sporting clay range is the best in the Deep South with 14 stations mimicking many different species of fowl and game, a duck flush set over water and a new five-stand clay range. There are also full skeet...

Tom Seay, a really good friend of mine came on to talk about the 2020 Nationals, his new career in his family business and how he juggles a full time job, finishing school and shooting competitively.  We also talk about the World FITASC in Mississippi this year and a lot more.

Cody was a hunting guide and a sporting clays instructor at McGraw Wildlife before moving to Georgia.  He is a Level 2 NSCA certified instructor and is now the Sporting Clays Director and target setter at Cherokee Rose in Griffin Ga.  His tricky target setting skills came from endless hours with Chuck Frasier and by listening to Anthony Matarese Jr and watching Brett Siebert from Northbrook Sporti...

In this episode of Shotgun Sports USA, host Justin Barker sits down to discuss American Field Sporting (AFS), the innovative clay-target discipline that began gaining traction across the United States in 2020. The conversation explores how AFS was developed to blend the excitement of sporting clays, FITASC, and hunting-style target presentations into a fresh competitive format that challenges shoo...