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Well if you think sporting clays is expensive you should try having a girlfriend.

Next time make sure she has more money than you!


Blew my chance years ago.

John
Arrieta

It's an expensive hobby, that's for sure.
Registration at the Guarini sponsored Fitasc events this season is about $150 each go, and another $100.00 for cartridges.
I run 200 rounds a week in practice (1 day FITASC, and 1 day SC), so another $100 there.
I totally understand why many of our members just shoot some clays, and then the rest of the day, shoot the breeze.
Our club is still quite "clubby", so that's nice.


Having had a rich girl friend, I felt better being around women that were similar to myself. Probably just youthful insecurity.

Stan: I do fish a fair bit (as you have observed) and for many years it was fairly inexpensive.

What I have run up against here lately is that the growth on the Front Range of Colorado has forced me to travel further to find the isolation (& fish) I used to find much closer to my home.

An hour in my old pickup used to do it, now it takes more like 5-hours and a motel room and that begins to add-up.

I still go (and really enjoy it), but not with the frequency that I used to enjoy.

I had a paper route for 6 years until the day I turned 16 and got my first real "punch-a-time-clock" job in a fast food joint. My route average around 105 customers, and took a little over two hours a day after school and on Saturday to deliver... if I hustled. Fridays took longer because I had to collect payment from my customers. Wednesdays took longer because the papers were heavier due to "stuffings" of grocery sales flyers, etc.

On Saturday morning, I rode my bike into town to pay for my papers at the Circulation Dept. A paperboy is considered an independent contractor who buys and resells the newspapers. That way, the Newspaper isn't responsible for injuries or accidents like dog bites, slipping on ice, or getting hit by a car, etc. I earned about $15.00 a week, plus a couple bucks in tips. So it amounted to less than a dollar an hour, but I earned some pocket money and was able to save up for some things I otherwise might not have enjoyed.

I didn't know back then, that things like buying a house, a new car, or shooting at skeet clubs were excessively expensive or unaffordable. I thought my income and expenditures were limited simply because I was a kid working a part-time, low wage, very entry level job.

Actually, I think it's pretty silly to compare a paperboy's ability to purchase things to that of the average grown-up working man.

Of course, we now live in a world where many people feel entitled to a guaranteed taxpayer funded minimum income for doing nothing, and feel they should have free taxpayer funded medical care and other benefits to boot.

Maybe things like skeet shooting, buying ammo, etc. wouldn't seem quite as costly if we were allowed to keep more of our wages, and weren't expected to spend a good percentage of our working hours supporting deadbeats, illegal aliens, or funding transgender grooming activities through wasteful USAID Programs.

And I won't mention the effects that 25% or greater Biden Inflation had on the costs of ammo, components, clay targets, and Skeet Club operating costs. Oops... I mentioned it, even though our Libtards wish to act like it didn't happen.

World Sporting next week at EJ Churchill's ground in West Wycombe England UK is £193 for 200 clays plus your cartridge price , makes it a dear do.

50 cents/ shot here in Raton at the Whit.

In considering the longevity of our sport I have some questions/thoughts. We see an aging demographic and increased costs to participate in shotgun sports. Our sport operates on the disposable funds of participants. It’s difficult to recruit new, younger shooters who have the big bills to pay. It’s difficult for those already participating who have fixed incomes in retirement. So, what does the future look like? Is clay shooting at its apex? Will we see a decline in participation soon? Or, is it going to soar? I don’t see where SC can be generally successful over the next decade if it continues at the current level. Some may think my questions heretical, but I think they need to be considered.

When it comes to shotgunning, shooter age looks pretty bimodal to me. Old guys and teenagers of both sexes are common.

The shooting sports has gotten more expensive, but then what hasn't?

I figure a round of sporting clays here will cost me somewhere around a hundred bucks with everything added up including lunch.

In comparison, I've had the good fortune to shoot doves in Argentina several times over the years and all of those outfitter packages in the past have included at least 2000 rounds in the package with extra ammo after that costing 12 to 15 dollars a box. I've been invited on a trip to Argentina for next April & was taken back by the cost increase. The basic package is more expensive & no longer has any included ammo plus has the add-on costs for gun rental & licensing. All ammo will now be charged at $22.50 per box. This comes out to $900.00 per thousand shells which is fairly easily shot in a day if your inclined to do so. Airfares are more expensive as well and when I add everything-up depending on how much you shoot, a three-day hunt could be in the neighborhood of 3k a day.

When looked at from this perspective, a round of sporting clays is a bargain.