Shooting sporting clays is a good pastime. There is no age limit. Shooters as young as 10 and as old as 85 or more can enjoy it. Shooters wishing to work on longer-range shots should head over to Cortez and give the game of trap a try. The Cortez Trap Club offers shooters the opportunity to focus on 45-degree angles as well as longer straightaway shots.
Trap consists of five stations with five birds thrown from each station.
A full choke gun is your best bet for successful trap shooting. For more information, contact the club at 565-7396. Farmington also operates a trap club and a sporting-clays range. If you are an avid bird hunter and it is your wing-shooting skills you want to improve or maintain, put skeet in your sights. Skeet, yet another shooting game, is characterized by its distinctive semi-circle formation and tough crossing shots.