Clay Pigeon – Traditional and Laser

Staying cool, calm and collected is the name of the game while on a clay shoot. Clay pigeon shooting is great fun, requiring cool concentration, a keen eye and superb reactions.  Havn’t got these attributes?  You will have at the end of the session and what’s more will be wanting to ‘do it again’

Our professionals will teach you how to hold, load and line up the gun and the techniques to follow the line of flight.  The laser guns may suit the ladies more as they are lighter and do not give any kick back even if held incorrectly. Arena UK will provide the guns, cartridges

History
Clay target shooting or clay pigeon shooting as it is also known has its roots in Edwardian and Victorian England.

It was in the early 1800's that the first live pigeon shooting club came into being.

The live birds were held in boxes called traps and when the shooter was ready he would call for his helper to pull a section of the trap away, thereby releasing the bird.

These 3 words are still used today 'Trap' (the machine which holds the clay targets), 'Pull' (the method used to call for a clay target) & 'Bird' (the name used for the clay target).

By around 1870 there had been attempts to produce artificial targets, one such method used was glass balls, either plain or filled with feathers. Later an American inventor George Ligowski came up with a baked clay disk modeled on clamshells he used to skim across water. Ligowskis' 'clay pigeon' quickly replaced the glass balls and just as quickly replaced live birds.