Introductory Wingshooting Clinics are designed for beginner/novice youth and adult shotgun shooting students. Youth participants must be at least 10 years old, 4 feet 6 inches tall, and weigh 75 pounds or more to register. Shotguns, shotshells, eye and hearing protection, and lunch are provided for all registered participants. Each clinic is comprised of a morning classroom session taught by an IDNR/National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) Certified Wingshooting Instructor. Students learn firearm nomenclature, firearm safety, and some principles of hunter safety during the morning session.
The afternoon session is taught at a shooting field or range by IDNR/NSCA Certified Wingshooting Instructors. Typically, each wingshooting instructor works with a group of four shooting students during the afternoon session. Most students are either beginners or have novice level shotgun shooting ability when enrolling in the clinic. The objectives are to teach students the fundamentals of hitting a moving target with a shotgun with reasonable reliability; and to work with each student to ensure the fundamentals of safe shotgun handling are learned and practiced in the field.
Introductory clinics are taught using twenty-eight gauge semi-automatic shotguns. For the beginning and novice wingshooting student unaccustomed to recoil and lifting the weight of a shotgun, these small gauge, gas operated shotguns are considered ideal for teaching. Their low recoil and reasonable weight make them quite manageable for new students. Introductory wingshooting clinics are held on Saturdays and/or Sundays and a typical clinic accommodates twenty-four shooting students each day. Any shooting students that are beyond the beginning or novice level shotgun shooting skill level should consider attending one of our Hunters Wingshooting Clinics.
