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2024-2025 Season Information

The mission of Davis County Clays is to introduce and educate youth in firearm safety along with a competitive shotgun shooting sport program. We are members of UTYESS (Utah Youth Education in Shooting Sports).  This program provides various disciplines in shotgun sports and will offer plenty of opportunities to experience them during this upcoming year. Our program is open to all school-age boys and girls in elementary school through high school. Participants must be physically, mentally, and emotionally mature enough to participate in a safe and responsible manner. 


UTYESS provides the following shotgun-shooting opportunities: American Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays. Although our team primarily focuses on Trapshooting, we will plan to shoot some Skeet and Sporting Clays in practice and at tournaments. All tournaments are based on school grade: 

Novice Category: 6th Grade and Below

Intermediate Category: 7th - 8th Grade 

Junior Varsity Category: 9th -10th Grade 

Senior Category: 11th - 12th Grade 

College Category:  Any shooter attending college or a trade school


Some of the tournaments we will attend will also have class trophies. Class trophies are based on shooting ability alone, not age. If you are new, we will establish your ability and notify UTYESS before your first tournament. (**For the Regional Tournament, JV will be only 9th grade, and Senior will be 10th-12th.)

Team Info: DavisCountyClays@gmail.com

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Team Leadership:

Isaac Erickson 801-540-1006

Sara Erickson 801-540-4505

Brock Moore 801-510-3406

Shelby Beckstead 801-201-3993


Team Communication: GroupMe App and email

Please provide a phone number and email for one or more parents and your team member




JOINING THE TEAM


PRACTICE

October 2, 2024 - April 24, 2025 at 5pm at the Bountiful Lion’s Club Range

Those who are planning on working towards their High School Letter and Utah State Teams will need to attend at least 80% of practices and maintain a 2.5 GPA.

We will shoot 50 targets at each practice

Athletes must pick up hulls after shooting.

Each team member is responsible to track their scores shot each week at practice. We recommend taking a picture of your score card at the end of each practice. You will want to track your score for end-of-year awards, Utah State Rookie of the Year awards, High School Lettering and for your own information to see your growth over the year.


Cost



Tournaments 

Team members are encouraged to wear team apparel at all competitions.

Tournament fees must be paid by a deadline set for each tournament to enable us to register on time. We will notify the team of each deadline as more information becomes available.

Most tournaments are on Saturday and Sunday. If you would like to only shoot one of those days, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate schedules.  However, note that the registration system for the UTYESS organized shoots does not allow selecting days ahead of time and may not always allow changing schedules, but we will do our best.

***If you are working towards the High School Letter, or trying to make the State Team, you must attend certain tournaments. More info to come.***

Many people take camping trailers to the larger tournaments, let us know if you plan to do this and we can get sites close together as a team. 

We will plan a dinner or other team activity at the larger tournaments. There are also usually food trucks, raffles, games, and more!

 

Tournament Schedule

Season Opener: Purgatory Gun Club, Nov 2-3, 2024

Spring Fling: Purgatory Gun Club, Feb 1-2, 2025

Davis County Clays Hosted Fundraiser Shoot - March 8, 2025

USAYESS Western Regionals: Las Vegas, March 21-23, 2025

State Shoot: Wasatch Wing and Clay, May 1-4, 2025

USAYESS Nationals: San Antonio, TX June 18-21, 2025

More shooting club tournaments will be added and announced as they are scheduled



FIREARMS

Each athlete needs to have a shotgun to participate with the team.  12 gauge shotguns are preferred, but 20 or smaller gauge shotguns are allowed.  20 gauge steel ammo can be purchased through the team, however, tournament (lead) ammo would be your responsibility to obtain.  It is most important that the athlete can safely handle the firearm.  If your child is on the border of being able to handle a 12 gauge shotgun, you should consider that they will build strength and stamina fairly quickly and be able to do well with the 12 gauge.

Overunder style shotguns are the most commonly used, however, semi-autos can also be used.  Pump actions are the most challenging to be able to use for skeet and sporting clay disciplines, but can be used for Trap.

The team has a relationship with a private gun dealer who will find and sell firearms to youth shooters at his wholesale price - no markup. In many cases, this could save you a considerable amount of money –  David Jones (801) 369-8707





Fundraising Raffle

We will organize a team raffle to help you raise money to support your fees and improve the team. With additional funding we may be able to afford better gear, support reduced costs for athletes, and fund range improvements or add-ons in the future.

For every $10 you spend towards your registration or tournament fees, you will receive one entry into the lottery. For example, by paying the $350 team fee, you will receive 35 raffle entries. If you purchase $100 in ammo, you will recieve 10 raffle entries. 

Raffle winners will be chosen at the end of the season, so all fees paid through the year will earn you more raffle entries. This way you can continue to fundraise throughout the year to help pay your tournament fees.

We encourage you to sell raffle tickets to friends and family- whatever tickets they buy, you receive the dollar amount credit for. For example, if your neighbor buys $50 in raffle entries, that $50 goes into your account and can be spent on fees and tournaments. Just make sure they indicate your name when entering the raffle! 



Team Sponsorships

Sponsorships brought in by a team member can be used to pay team dues and tournament fees. 

Sponsorship applications are due NO LATER than November 1st, 2024 if they would like their logo on the jersey.

 Gold Sponsorship $1000

Silver Sponsorship $500

Bronze Sponsorship $250





SAFETY – SAFETY – SAFETY 

•Ear and Eye Protection is required for all shooters and coaches.

• Muzzles must always be pointed in a safe direction. While on the firing line all muzzles must be pointed down range.

• Muzzles cannot be rested on anyone’s foot while on the firing line. All muzzles will need to be held off the ground or rested on the muzzle pad.

• Actions must always be left empty and open until it is your time to shoot.

• A shooter's finger must be off the trigger until they are ready to call for their target. Release triggers are not permitted at any practice or organized tournament.

• Guns cannot be loaded until it is your time to call for the target.

• No shooting at any targets that are not your target.

• Only 7 ½ and 8 shot is permitted.

• Only 1 shell can be loaded in any gun at a time and can only be loaded when it is your time to shoot. Unless you are shooting doubles.

• Only Coaches or trained adult volunteers can be in front of the 16-yard line.

• No tank tops are allowed when shooting, at practice or competitions.

TREAT EVERY GUN AS IF IT WERE LOADED AT ALL TIMES! SAFETY IS NO JOKE!