The premier location of Joshua Creek Ranch in the spectacular Texas Hill Country makes its Sporting Clays Course one of the most beautiful in the country according to well-traveled shooters. Joshua Creek Ranch offers two clay target shooting venues: Sporting Clays and Wobble Trap. Either venue can be organized into a variety of shooting scenarios such as instruction, practice, competition, or games. Both are available in easy walking distance from the Main Lodge, Main Lodge Suite, and the Long Haus. Steel shot is required for both sporting clays and wobble trap.
Sporting Clays
Joshua Creek Ranch boasts two Sporting Clays course! We have a traditional 10-station Sporting Clays course where targets are lauched in a variety of ways approximating a different hunting scenario at each station. We also offer our new Continental Clays course, where targets are launched from overhead, simulating a driven pheasant shoot or continental pheasant shoot. Shooters rotate through ten different stations, and clays of varying size are used, approximating the different sizes of pheasants on a pheasant shoot. The Continental Clays course is a great training tool for novice shooters who are about to experience their first driven pheasant shoot. Sporting Clays are offered year-round from 8:00 am until dark, in rounds of 50 or 100 targets. A trapper accompanies every squad of shooters that enters the course to ensure safety and appropriate operation of the traps for consistency of targets. The course features novice-friendly targets since the fun is in breaking targets, not missing them. For competition shoots, a couple of difficult stations are added to the mix to separate the great from the good shooters.
The Wobble Trap
The Wobble Trap area is lighted and available year-round from 7:00am until 9:30 pm for practice, instruction, and games. Bird hunters are encouraged to shoot a few practice rounds here before departing for their field hunts. The wobble trap is the perfect scenario for beginning shooters or those needing practice or fine-tuning of a certain shot. The Wobble Trap setting is such that shooters can position themselves to get any angle they want on the target: going away, quartering left or right, incoming, etc. The Wobble Trap offers an endless opportunity for a variety of shooting games, including “missin’ out,” “baseball,” “poison bird,” and more.
Shooting Instruction
Joshua Creek Ranch maintains full time shooting instructors for beginning shooters. If you need some instruction at the Wobble Trap before beginning your Sporting Clays, we'll be glad to assist! Professional instructors for more advanced shooters can be arranged with advance notice.
Shooting Events
Sporting Clays and Wobble trap are fun and economical when it comes to entertaining a large group of shooters. Custom packages can be developed for shooting events that include instruction, a competition course, prizes, meals, and beverages, etc. Joshua Creek Ranch is an excellent, attractive location for charity and other fundraising events.
Shooting Equipment and Supplies
Joshua Creek Ranch maintains an inventory of approximately 10 Berretta double barrel, over and under rental shotguns, ammunition for all shotgun gauges, and a variety of ammo carriers.