Irie- It is definitely a lot of fun. My efforts of description don't do justice to the energy these guys put into making it a great experience! Do yourself a favor!
Jadeball- If the money for instruction is too much just go shoot for the day. You can coach you son yourself and just pay for clays which was six dollars for each box of shells you use- definitely reasonable. That said- if someone spent three hundred dollars on me at say fourteen, I would be remarkably better now, a different shooter even. Bad habits are easier prevented than trained away. Two of the guys I normally shoot with spent the money for lessons with Chuck himself. They did that because I was consistently beating them on a standard course. Well now those two "cheaters" blow me away and the difference/ improvement was amazing.
Snit- I agree. Class is a good choice of words for these guys. Of all the clubs I have visited, maybe a dozen or so from Nevada, California and Washington, this is the most relaxed, most realistic and by far the most fun. I find it frustrating when a clays course is set up with nothing but long crossers. A typical score for me would be 65 to 77 maybe depending on who knows what (?) but you go to one of these clubs that cater to the pros and my score drops to the 40s maybe. I don't shoot professionally obviously and I was never in the Olympics but of all the courses I have been lucky enough to shoot, this is by far the best.
For sure it was a lot of fun for both of us. I can't think of what else we could have done that would have been more fun or turned out better.
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In the legend of King Arthur, the Fisher King was a renowned angler whose errant ways caused him to be struck dumb in the presence of the sacred chalice. I am no great fisherman, and a steelhead is not the covenant of Christ, but with each of these fish I am rendered speechless.