Jim Edgar Panther Creek SFWA Youth/Family Wingshooting Clinic
Learn to shoot moving clay targets with a shotgun! This clinic is designed for beginner/novice participants, youth through adult, and can include parents, guardians, family members or friends who may be shooting from a range of skill levels!
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Jim Edgar Panther Creek SFWA Youth/Family Wingshooting Clinic
Sunday, June 8 @ 10 AM CDT
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2025-06-08 10:00:24
2025-06-08 16:00:40
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Jim Edgar Panther Creek SFWA Youth/Family Wingshooting Clinic
This clinic is designed for beginner/novice participants, youth through adult, and can include parents, guardians, family members or friends who may be shooting from a range of skill levels! Parent/guardian participation is welcome, and encouraged! 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.
These 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 ideal for teaching. Their low recoil and reasonable weight make them manageable for new students.
This clinic is sponsored by the RiverBank Lodge - Petersburg; National Wild Turkey Federation - New Salem Longbeards; Farm & Home - Wabash Ave, Springfield; the Illinois Conservation Foundation; and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area<br>
10149 Co Rd 11, Chandlerville, IL 62627, USA
