Sporting Clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting. The original idea behind sporting clays shooting was to create an experience that more closely reflects actual hunting conditions.

At Lake Oconee Shooting Club, you can choose from our novice or intermediate sporting clays courses. The two sporting clays courses are re-configured each week to challenge shooters to continually test their shotgun skills. The automatic traps throw a variety of targets including rabbit, teal, chandelle, and standard sporting clays. Golf carts will comfortably carry the shooters from station-to-station.


Sporting Clays Shooting has been called "playing golf with a shotgun". The reason for this comparison is because shooting a shotgun and hitting a clay target with precision, is just as challenging as, swinging a golf club and hitting a golf ball straight down the fairway.

In addition, both sports require riding in a golf cart and stopping station-by-station in numbered order. Both courses create new daily obstacles due to outdoor elements such as wind, trees, meadows and waterways.

At each station, the shooter is presented with a unique set of target angles and views. Our Sporting Clays' courses has been carefully designed to give the shooter a wide array of exciting shots.


Come experience high-flying dove, incoming geese, the vertical take off of a teal, rabbits scampering across a hillside and quail or pheasant under your feet. As you drive from the front of the property across streams and hills, you will be presented with the beautiful scenery of Eatonton, Georgia and the Lake Oconee Area.

Sit back and enjoy the ride between the stations and feel the excitement mount again and again as you arrive ready to once more watch those clay disks explode. Feel the experience! Come visit us.

Members of: National Sporting Clays Association, Georgia Sporting Clays Association, National Skeet Shooting Association and Georgia Skeet Shooting Association

The sport of Skeet Shooting is a measured and stately shooting event. One can experience the gentility that is skeet, by shooting at one of the most beautiful courses in the United States. As you stroll up to the skeet field at Lake Oconee Shooting Club, you will be struck by the beauty of the twin log skeet houses that bracket the course.

The shooters advance from stations 1-8 as they move around the semicircle that typifies skeet. At each station, the shooter will be presented a bird from the "high" house (the clay bird coming out of an opening eight feet in the air) or the "low" house (the bird sails from an opening positioned approximately three feet above the ground).

When at station 1, the shooter sees the high bird appear from directly above and behind, while the low bird seems to head almost directly toward them. Once those first two shots are accomplished, the shooter is presented with a "double" B a high bird and a low bird spit forth simultaneously. As the shooter progresses, the shot angle becomes less and less acute. When at station four, the birds cross directly in front of the shooter.

Some shooters will find the earlier stations the easiest, for some the later stations will seem to be a breeze, but the best is yet to come. At station eight, all are challenged as first the high and then the low bird sail forth directly over the shooter's head. Split second timing is rewarded by an exploding target. Lake Oconee Shooting Club  is one of only a handful of venues that can accommodate both American and Olympic-style skeet. The skeet range is lighted to accommodate evening and night time shooting.