About The Gold Coast Clay Target Club Inc.
Clay Target Shooting is a sport where clay targets are thrown and shooters attempt to shoot them with a shotgun. Young people from 11 years can begin supervised clay target shooting after passing a Firearms Safety Course and becoming a junior member of ACTA and Gold Coast Clay Target Club. It is a sport for all ages and abilities and can become as social or competitive as you wish. Our club is known far and wide as a friendly club and we have many shooting families across three generations. There are a number of disciplines now available to modern shooters. Gold Coast Clay Target Club offers all of the following disciplines – Sporting Clays, Trap or DTL, Olympic Trap/Trench, Universal Trap and Skeet.
Sporting Clays is a discipline similar to field shooting where the clay targets are thrown in singles or pairs in a wide variety of angles and trajectories. Some events are shot from five stations and some events require the shooters to walk between stations where they take turns to shoot a number of targets before moving to another station. Gold Coast Clay Target Club is dual affiliated with Sporting Clays Australia. Sporting competitions are held usually on the first Sunday of each month but please check our competition calendar. Practice is available most Saturdays from 1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Trap or Down The Line (DTL) shooting is when shooting shots at clay targets from 15 metres from a traphouse where targets are thrown at 22 degrees either side of the centre line of the trap. Competitions can be single or double barrel, single or double targets thrown, moving from shooting station to station along an arc of 15 metres from the traphouse. Often this is the first discipline beginners learn the basics of clay target shooting. Trap competitions are held usually on the second Sunday of each month but please check our competition calendar. Practice and Come and Try are available most Saturdays unless a two-day carnival is on. Always best to check by calling the club.
Olympic Trap or Olympic Trench is one of the Olympic disciplines where shooters shoot at 25 targets with one or two shots from five shooting stations that are 15 metres from the traphouse. The targets come from 15 traps in front of the shooter. As the name suggests, as an Olympic discipline it is one of the hardest of all to master. OT competitions are held usually on the third Sunday of each month but please check our competition calendar. Always best to check by calling the club.
Universal Trap is similar to Olympic Trap with the difference of only 5 traps again at 15 metres from five shooting stations 15 metres from the shooters reducing the angles of targets thrown. UT competitions are held usually on the fourth Saturday from 11.30 a.m. of each month but please check our competition calendar. Always best to check by calling the club.
Skeet is a discipline where targets are shot at from a Low and High Trap (House) in either singles or doubles or a combination from stations in a semicircle. There is an Olympic version of Skeet where targets are thrown at a much faster speed and a delay is added when the shooter calls for the target. Skeet competitions are held usually on the third Sunday of each month but please check our competition calendar. Always best to check by calling the club.
