I hope you enjoy my posts here at the International Sporting blog. This blog will mostly consist of my PERSONAL adventures in sporting clays. Keep in mind this all just MY OPINION and my opinion can be as slippery as a Battue thrown straight down from a tower!
Why then International Sporting? I really enjoy the world wide aspect of sporting clays and FITASC. Though I won’t be globe trotting anytime soon I hope to include some international information as well as local (California) information about shooting sporting clays.
I enjoy writing about sporting clays because it is my hobby and is a much needed change from my day job as a Director of Photography in the entertainment industry which I’m am very passionate about. I’m also very lucky that I get to work at what I love for a living. But with this blog I will be cheating on my first love with my second…sporting clays!
I began shooting sporting clays in the early 90′s and joined the NSCA in 1994 and shot often until 2001 when my career began to change and I wasn’t able to shoot much anymore. Since 2001 I’ve only shot a limited number of tournaments and have had periods of as much as a year or more without pulling the trigger. That has been unfortunate but I’m going to resume shooting as I did in the 90′s.
Pre 2001 I was able to get some in-kind sponsorship from a well known powder company that amounted mostly to receiving a lot of free powder which I happily used to reload my practice shells with. I also organized, managed and set the targets for one of the first FITASC specific shoots in the state of Texas. Unfortunately it wasn’t well attended and was basically a failure. But those were early times and FITASC wasn’t as popular as it is today. I have also written and had published a few articles on sporting and FITASC.
I’ve shot in State, Zone, Nationals and World championships in the past and have seen just about all there is in the way of targets hard and soft. This time around though, I’m not sure how much or often I’ll be shooting. This has led to the most pressing conundrum of the moment…buying a new sporting gun.
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