Sporting Clays is a challenging clay target game designed to simulate field shooting. On a Sporting Clays course, shooters are presented with a wide variety of targets that duplicate the flight path of gamebirds, such as flushing, crossing, incoming and other angling shots.
5-Stand is a condensed version of sporting clays. Sometimes overlayed on a trap or skeet field, this game uses 6-8 automatic traps. 5-stand courses present targets in a variety of combinations to challenge the shooter. There are three levels of difficulty: Level I, five single targets with full use of the gun for scoring; Level II, three single and a simultaneous pair; Level III, one single and two simultaneous pairs.
A squad of five shooters can move from station to station with a predetermined menu of shots and combinations, or in a sequence unknown to the shooters.
Since no two Sporting Clays courses are alike and target angles and speed at individual stations may be changed from time to time, it is difficult for shooters to "groove in" as they might in trap or skeet. As a result, Sporting Clays scores are generally not as high as the scores in traditional clay target games such as trap and skeet.
PSC only offers non-competitive sporting clays shooting. If a shooter desires to compete regionally or nationally in sporting clays they will need to join the national organization to compete. More information about the National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) can be found to the left by selecting the link. Competitive sporting clays shooting is gaining popularity across America.
Sporting Clays is by no means an exclusively competitive game. Indeed, more shooters participate just for the fun of it and to get in some excellent practice for hunting seasons.
The PSC 5-Stand Sporting Clays Field
