Salem Clay Target Sports

I have been taking my two sons as well as other family members to shoot sporting clays for several years. We went out this weekend to shoot a round of 100 clays and at the end when we turned in the score sheets and the card key, the woman behind the counter said we were way over and I had to pay for the extra clays. We were 36 clays over from broken or no clays. In my mind 36 birds over is not «way» over, and n the past they usually called it good as we mark out broken or no birds on the score sheet. She ended up getting another 15 bucks out of my pocket on top of the ninety two dollars I already paid, when I pushed back she said we should call each time we run into trouble, Next time I will, completely ridiculous that I should have to call the clubhouse and wait for someone to come around each time the equipment malfunctions.

A friend asked me to come with him to shoot skeet. After my first visit, I didn’t expect much. I arrived and went into the club house. I was greeted by and asked how they could help. I told them I was waiting for a friend. The women behind the counter was so nice and talked to me about the whole place. Explained the difference between trap and skeet. My friend showed up and we hit the range. Had a blast, really quite fun. I will be coming back and I plan on taking lessons.

We went here recently for a 30^th birthday party. The course is laid out very nice and you can even rent carts to haul all of your stuff around in. We had a great time. The service was excellent and by far the best place I have shot sporting clays before.

Went down for a lesson (45 minute drive). Ellen gave a very helpful instruction. Very low key-​not intimidating. I hade never shot trap before. One lesson wednesday and one practice friday and went to a charity event friday afternoon and shot 16 out of 25 to be 2^nd place woman! Woohoo! Could n’t have done it with out Ellen’s guidance! Definitely recommend this place. Dave was also very helpful in the clubhouse checking my gun and my eye dominance and selling me all sorts of «goodies» that I now need for my new sport!

Six of us went for the sporting clays. Fantastic time! Stephen was very helpful. We’ll be back!
But, just fyi, probably not the best place to bring a six year old…

I’m new to shotgun sports and took my son and his friend up to Mitchell’s to try out a new shotgun with some trap shooting. The owner, Stephan, was very helpful in getting us set up. He even took the time to come out and pull the targets for us and give us a few beginner pointers. Targets were thrown by an electrical, auto loading device in a bunker ahead of us — no heavy springs to pull back and risks of injuries with the throwers I’ve used in California. We all had a great time, broke some clays, and will definitely be back.
4 stars only because this is a first impression — when we go back if the experience is similar (which I expect it would be) it’s easily 5 stars.