News | June Sporting Clays + DTL Weekend Coming up

Wairarapa Clay Target Club
Jun 15
5 min read

June Sporting & DTL Weekend – Club Championships Continue

19–21 June | Wairarapa Clay Target Club

After three strong months of growth, we're back again in June with another Flexible Shooting Weekend.

Whether you're a first-time shooter, a school shooter looking to build experience, a gamebird hunter wanting some pre-season practice, or an experienced competitor chasing Club Championship honours, there's something for everyone across the weekend.

Shoot one round or spend the whole weekend here. Come and go when it suits. Get some coaching, try a new discipline, catch up with mates, or simply enjoy a few hours around the grounds.

This month features:

• English Sporting Cash Match

• Super Sporting Club Championship

• DTL Point Score Club Championship

Alongside all the same flexibility that people have been enjoying over the past few months:practice, coaching, re-entries, introductions, family participation, and the ability to come and shoot when it suits you.

Three-Day Format

Shooting Times

Friday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Friday afternoon remains a great option for quieter shooting, practice, coaching, introductions, and posting early scores before the busier weekend period.

The Disciplines

English Sporting Cash Match

This month’s English Sporting layout will be run as:

40 - target rounds

(three sporting fields in use this month)

No club championship attached this month. Cash prizes will be awarded from each shooter’s best 40-target English Sporting round of the weekend.

Shoot as many rounds as you like, and we’ll count your best score

Super Sporting Club Championship

Super Sporting will be run as:

60-target rounds

This month, Super Sporting will be the Sporting Club Championship event.

Your best 60-target round across the weekend will count toward the Club Championship.

If shooters are tied at the end of the weekend, additional rounds will be used as tie-breakers. So if you think you could be in contention, posting another round may be worthwhile.

DTL Point Score Club Championship

This month’s DTL discipline will be:

Point Score – 25-target rounds

Point Score is shot in a very similar format to Single Rise, but targets are scored on points rather than simply hit or miss. Rounds are also shot 5 per lane. So stay on your lane and complete 5 before moving to the right.

Your best two rounds across the weekend will count toward the Club Championship, making it a 50-target Point Score championship.

If shooters are tied at the end of the weekend:

third rounds will be used as tie-breakers
then fourth rounds if required

This means additional rounds effectively become your “shoot-off” rounds.

Shooters will score and referee each other in the usual club manner.

Coaching, Introductions & New Shooters

One of the best parts of these weekends has been the number of new shooters and families getting involved.

That will continue in June, including introductions to:

Sporting Clays
DTL Point Score
general shotgun handling and shooting technique

Intro Sessions Available:

✅ Friday afternoon

✅ Saturday 9:00am

✅ Saturday after 2:00pm

Because Saturday through the middle of the day becomes extremely busy, no introductions will be run during that peak period.

No introductory sessions will be available Sunday.

Coaching During Competition

Coaching and guidance will still be available throughout the weekend, including while shooters are completing scored rounds.

However, during busy periods this will need to be limited to shooters who are already comfortable and competent participating within normal squad shooting.

For more advanced help or technique refinement, catch up with James (0272779221) or David during the weekend.

Practice Shooting

Practice remains available across the weekend on the sporting fields using the Claymate card system.

However:

practice takes second priority to competition shooting
there is unlikely to be much practice availability during peak periods Saturday and Sunday

If you’re wanting significant practice time, Friday afternoon or quieter periods Saturday are strongly recommended.

Important:

There is no practice shooting available on DTL Point Score.

All DTL shooting must be completed as official scored 25-target rounds paid through the office.

Grades & Prize Money

All three disciplines will use the following grades, with prizes subject to the eligibility requirements below:

AA | A | B | C | Novice

For each discipline:

🥇 Grade Winner — $50

🥈 Runner-Up — $30

For Super Sporting, prizes will be awarded based on the final Club Championship results, using each shooter’s best 60-target round across the weekend, including any tie-breaks.

For DTL Point Score, prizes will be awarded based on the final Club Championship results, using each shooter’s best two 25-target rounds across the weekend, including any tie-breaks.

For English Sporting, prizes will be awarded based on each shooter’s best 40-target round across the weekend.

Shoot as many rounds as you like — we’ll count your best scores.

There will also be:

🔶 Falcon ammunition prizes

🎁 Random prize draws

As always, we’re working hard to give back to the shooters who support the club and make these weekends what they are.

A lot of the ammunition and development-focused prizes are intentionally aimed toward novice, unregistered and developing shooters.

Prize & Club Championship Eligibility

To be eligible for Club Championship titles, cash prizes, Falcon ammunition prizes and random prize draws, shooters must be a paid-up Wairarapa Clay Target Club member for 2026.

Membership options are:

Full Membership: $100
Junior Membership: $20
Associate Membership: $20

Associate Membership is available to shooters who are already full members of another NZCTA-registered club and are NZCTA-registered elsewhere.

Shooters can join or arrange membership through the club office during the weekend.

Club Equipment & Membership

Club equipment remains available throughout the weekend for those wanting to try the sport or get started.

If you require club equipment, please indicate this during online registration.

New shooters are very welcome to become members immediately if they wish. Membership provides:

cheaper practice targets
access to member ammunition pricing
full participation in club activities

Shooters attending their third shooting visit will need to become club members to continue participating.

Why These Weekends Are Working

What’s become obvious over the past few months is that people are responding really positively to:

flexibility
approachable coaching
safe, modern systems
varied targets
family involvement
and a club atmosphere where people are willing to help each other improve

One of the most encouraging things has been seeing different parts of the shooting community mixing together. New shooters are learning from experienced competitors. School shooters are gaining experience alongside adults. Gamebird hunters are trying sporting disciplines. Families are spending time together outdoors. It's exactly the sort of club culture we want to continue building.

Our club is growing, and we’re feeling really positive about future growth of the sport around the Wairarapa club.

Registration

Online registrations open now

👉 Registration link: https://www.wairarapactc.nz/club-registration

Live scoreboards and all event information will again be available through the club website across the weekend.

Looking Ahead

This June weekend continues the Wairarapa club’s evolving approach to modern clay target shooting — mixing flexibility, competition, coaching and accessibility into a format that simply works for how people want to participate today.

We’re looking forward to another big weekend.

The next Flexible Shooting Weekend will be held 24-26 July, featuring Skeet Club Championships in place of DTL Point Score.