The clay shooting
handbook, in plain language.
From your first shotgun to your hundredth handicap round — articles, diagrams, and drills that explain how the sport actually works. No accounts, no paywalls, no sign-ups.
What is the 16-yard line, anyway?
Four content types, cross-linked
Each piece of content sits in one of these four buckets — and links sideways into the others, so reading one always gives you the next move.
The first four things every new shooter learns
Four disciplines, four field geometries
We're starting with American Trap — the rest are being written. Each card opens that sport's library when it's ready.
American Trap
11 articlesOne trap throwing away from a five-post arc. Singles, handicap, and doubles.
Olympic Trap
Coming soonFifteen traps below the arc throwing wide, fast, and steeply angled.
Skeet
Coming soonTwo houses, crossing targets, eight stations around a half-moon.
Sporting Clays
Coming soonA walking course with stations that simulate game birds in flight.
Start a guided plan
The academy teaches the theory; these plans put it into practice. Log in to RangeVault to follow a plan and track your progress.
Before your first lesson
What to bring, what to expect, and the safety basics to walk in already knowing — so your first session is about shooting, not paperwork.
Learn Trap — from your first shotgun to your first round
A step-by-step path through gun fit, the mount, and the five posts, building up to a full round of American Trap singles.
Daily dry-fire drills
Short, repeatable mount-and-swing drills with snap caps and no live ammo — a few minutes a day to groove the fundamentals between range trips.
Weekly dry-fire drills
A recurring training schedule that lays the dry-fire drills across your week, so practice stays on the calendar instead of by memory.
Sport-agnostic articles
Lead, swing-through, and pull-away
Three mental models for where to put the muzzle on a moving target. Pick the one that survives under pressure.
Eye dominance and gun fit
Why the cheek weld matters more than the sight picture, and the simple desk test for which eye runs the show.
Where to look before you call pull
Your eye's look point is a different decision from your muzzle hold. Set it deliberately and the clay shows up smoothly instead of exploding into view.