Taught by the guy who sets the targets.

Horseshoe Bay Resort covers more than 7,000 acres along Lake LBJ and has three championship golf courses. The Sporting Club gives its members a shooting amenity at the same level: 150 acres of Hill Country on Highway 71, open to members of The Club at Horseshoe Bay and their families.

The shotgun range fits a full target menu into that ground. There is a 12-station sporting clays course with Hill Country views, a five-stand deck, a flurry deck for groups, and a helice ring, a discipline only a handful of facilities in the country offer. The pistol range has a 50-yard bay and three 25-yard bays under a covered pavilion, and the clubhouse has a trophy room, retail, and a bar called The Last Shot.

My scopeDesigned the whole facility: the 12-station sporting clays course, five-stand, flurry and helice, the pistol range, and the clubhouse grounds, and worked with the construction crews through the build.Ray Bacon was part of this build, and I'm grateful for his help.

Staccato Ranch is Staccato's private members' ranch in Florence, about 40 minutes north of Austin.

The shotgun side has three sporting clays courses that step up in difficulty. Mesquite Flats teaches fundamentals, Skyline adds more varied presentations, and Cedar Ridge is the technical course for experienced shooters. Two five-stands round it out: the Meadows deck, fully covered with automatic traps, and the Creek five-stand on the banks of Salado Creek.

My scopeDesigned the shotgun courses: three sporting clays courses and two five-stands.

Walton Ranch runs guided upland bird hunts for quail, pheasant and chukar in the post oak country near Millican, south of College Station. Hunters book day hunts or join for the season, and they hunt behind the ranch's guides and trained bird dogs.

The five-stand is a covered timber deck set in the post oaks, looking out over an open field with timber trap houses. The machines run off solar panels and batteries. A five-stand lets hunters warm up on clays before they head to the field, and gives members something to shoot outside bird season.

My scopeDesigned the five-stand: the covered shooting deck, trap houses and machine placement.Ray Bacon worked on this build with me, and I appreciate his help.

A 550-acre shooting property in the Mojave, 45 minutes from Las Vegas. For years it was Front Sight Firearms Training Institute. PrairieFire bought it out of Front Sight's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, held its grand opening on September 23, 2023, and renamed it Staccato Vegas in January 2025.

The ground is broken badland: dry washes, cut banks and caliche ridges with mountains on the horizon. The shotgun course was laid into that terrain, so targets come off ridgelines, cross washes and drop into cuts instead of flying over a flat field. After dark, the same course runs as a black light shoot with glow targets.

My scopeI taught pistol and rifle on this property at Front Sight from 2017 to 2020. When PrairieFire took over after the bankruptcy, I was the one they chose to build its sporting clays course. I designed and built it: station and trap house layout, machine placement and the black light shoot setup.