Clay Target Nation, January 2021
28 Gauges And Rule Changes The author got a little experience with the 28 gauge and got some questions answered about NSCAs new sub gauge classification at the same time BY JOHN M TAYLOR L eaving behind Washington D C s urban sprawl I turned east on Route 7 then took the third right after the light at Berryville Virginia and drove on out across the verdant farmland dotted with landmark white farm houses Fields of corn lined the roads At a crossroads I pondered if it might have been here that a young George Washington placed his transit when he surveyed this area nearly 300 years before Another sharp turn and I was at the gate of Prospect Hall It was named Prospect Hall by Peter Hunsicker who bought the property from the heir of Joseph Edwards who originally received 196 acres of land as a grant from Lord Fairfax Situated on rolling hilly land bordered by Opesquon Creek the manor house built in 1804 and finished by 1812 commands a majestic view across the hills to the Blue Ridge Mountains Prospect Hall is a private shooting and hunting preserve that offers a hightower for driven pheasant a 24 station sporting clays course plus skeet and trap The 2020 National 28 Gauge Invitational 100 bird shoot took advantage of the rolling topography and combined the use of both manual and automatic traps on each station the last being a nested pair of mini and midi clays looped across our front Prospect Hall is a wonderful place to shoot Not far away in Kearneysville West Virginia is Kent Cartridges U S plant They were one of the Invitationals spon 32 WWW NSSA NSCA ORG JANUARY 2021 p Parker Zeitler shoots with a manual trap in the background This shoot made use of a combination of manual and automatic traps on nearly every station Instructor Rhys Arthur on the Elite Kent Cartridge Challenge station Run four straight and win a box of Kents Elite ammo loaded with their proprietary Diamond Shot
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