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This Month In Clay Target Nation

CTN April 2025

The April issue of Clay Target Nation is full of hard-hitting tips and tactics to help you improve your shooting and have more fun.

In our Training Tips columns, instructor Al Scooler offers a simple tip to improve your odds on high 1, while Anthony Matarese Jr. gets serious about confronting the excuses that are holding you back from reaching your full potential.

This year, we’re celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary by bringing you one article each issue from our 2016 archives, and in April, that’s a feature on a topic most shooters can relate to: how to break out of a rut. You’ll also find a feature outlining what to expect out of the fully custom gunstock process, and a cool feature highlighting some successful Ladies Nights at various clubs. We interview some of skeet’s best shooters about how they handle the pressure to constantly be perfect, and we also take a look at how to understand target types as well as target presentations during your shot planning. And don’t miss instructor Deon Thompson’s article “Body of Work,” in which he encourages shooters to pay attention to how they body feels—not just how everything looks—when they’re setting up.

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Clay Target Nation is available monthly to all members in digital and/or print form. Not a member? You can receive the next issue when you join at http://nssa-nsca.org/join-nssa-nsca/.

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NSSA-NSCA Announces Lockton Affinity As Additional Insurance Provider

NSSA-NSCA is pleased to announce its offering of a second insurance option to its members, member clubs, and instructors, enhancing one of its most valuable member benefits. In addition to its longtime affiliation with Sportsman’s Insurance Company, Inc. to offer discounted insurance plans for guns, clubs, and instructors, NSSA-NSCA announces a new partnership with Lockton Affinity Outdoor to provide additional options to its members and member clubs.

“Gun insurance is very important to our members who need to protect their investment in equipment, and our clubs and instructors require liability insurance,” said Michael Hampton Jr., NSSA-NSCA Executive Director. “Every member, club, and instructor’s circumstances are different, so adding this new partnership gives them the opportunity to compare plans to find what works best for them.”

For more than 24 years, Lockton Affinity Outdoor has been administering an insurance program specifically designed to gun clubs, firearm instructors and individual firearm collections. “We are excited to be partnering with NSSA-NSCA,” said Jeff Hewitt, SVP and Program Executive of Lockton Affinity Outdoor. “At Lockton Affinity Outdoor, our goal has long been to bring a consistent and long-term insurance solution to gun clubs and instructors and protection for individually owned firearm collections.”

The new partnership is effective immediately, and U.S.-based NSSA-NSCA members can visit www.locktonaffinityoutdoor.com/nssa-nsca/ to learn more and request a quote for coverage. Insurance coverage is not available to international members.

 
Disclaimer:

The Lockton Affinity Outdoor Insurance program is administered by Lockton Affinity, LLC d/b/a Lockton Affinity Insurance Brokers LLC in California #0795478. Coverage is subject to actual policy terms and conditions. Policy benefits are the sole responsibility of the issuing insurance company. Coverage may be provided by an excess/surplus lines insurer which is not licensed by or subject to the supervision of the insurance department of your state of residence. Policy coverage forms and rates may not be subject to regulation by the insurance department of your state of residence. Excess/Surplus lines insurers do not generally participate in state guaranty funds and therefore insureds are not protected by such funds in the event of the insurer’s insolvency. NSSA-NSCA will receive a royalty fee for the licensing of its name and trademarks as part of the insurance program offered to the extent permitted by applicable law. Not available in all states.

 

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Update Regarding Sportsman’s Insurance Agency, Inc.

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We are pleased to report that Sportsman’s Insurance Agency, Inc. (SIAI) has notified NSSA-NSCA of an update regarding the gun, gun club and instructor coverages they offer to our members and member clubs.

“Sportsman’s Insurance Agency is excited to announce the continuation of our regular operations with our customers,” said Leslie Casanova, president of SIAI.

If your firearm, gun club, or instructor’s coverage recently expired, please contact Sportsman’s at 386-677-2588 to discuss resuming these valuable coverages.

If your policy expires on a future date, your coverage will remain in force until the expiration date listed on your Certificate of Coverage. SIAI will contact you for renewal of your coverage at that time.

Please contact SIAI at 386-677-2588 with any questions regarding your existing or lapsed coverage.

“We thank you for your patience, understanding and support,” said Leslie. “We are happy to continue to support the NSSA/NSCA and its members, member clubs, and instructors the same as we have for the past 33 years. Again, thank you from the SIAI team.”

 

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Support USA Sporting Clays Team in 2024 Competition

USA Sporting Clays Team

In 2024, the USA has the privilege of hosting both the World English Sporting Clays Championship at M&M Sporting Clays in Pennsville, NJ, May 14-19, and the World FITASC Sporting Championship at Game Unlimited Sporting Clays in Hudson, WI, June 27-30, 2024. These two events will bring the world’s best shooters together to compete for world titles in Sporting Clays and FITASC, with our NSCA USA Sporting Clays Teams again representing the USA.

Selection to the USA Sporting Clays Team is the pinnacle of NSCA achievement. The support of our shooting family allows 40 of the best competitors to represent the United States this year at the World English Sporting Clays and World FITASC Championships.

See the 2024 USA Sporting Clays and FITASC Team members

This year, we are recognizing our best Sub-Junior shooters by adding a new Sub-Junior Team category. At this time there are no other Sub-Junior Teams for our Sub-Juniors to shoot against in world competition; however, they will be shooting as individuals at the 2024 World English Sporting Clays and World FITASC Championships.

With both events being held in the USA, the cost to send a USASCT member to one of these events to compete will cost about $2,500. You may sponsor a team member of your choice for $2,500 to cover the cost for them to travel to one of the world events, or you may donate any amount to support the USASCT as a whole.

Our “Sponsor a Team Member” fundraising campaign has been very well received since 2021, so we are again looking for people to sponsor a 2024 Team member’s effort to bring home the gold for the USA. A generous donation of $2,500* will cover an individual member’s trip to a world championship, and you will receive recognition for your support. The USA Sporting Clays Team is also a 501(c)(3) organization, which makes your donation tax-deductible.

Your continued support will help ensure the best shooters in the world will be able to represent the United States in the future. We do not believe it is fair or acceptable to only partially fund the team members’ participation, given their hard work, dedication, and the resources they have already expended to make the team. It is also unfair to spend money to the point that it will affect next year’s team.

If you cannot fully sponsor an individual member, a tax-deductible donation of any size is valued and appreciated. To join our effort, please contact Glynne Moseley at 210-688-3371, ext. 270 or gmoseley@nssa-nsca.com.

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