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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Sporting Clays, an increasingly popular activity nationally, has also arrived in Rappahannock County.
Fletcher Eastham hosts organized shoots at his family’s Ben Venue Farm most weekends and from time to time during the week. Late last spring he purchased a Trap House for throwing clay targets and enough gates for 13 different stands. The targets come in various sizes, and the trap house shoots them out in different patterns in imitation of game birds or rabbits.
Last Sunday’s shoot included Bill and Brooke Fletcher, Mrs. Fletcher’s brother-in-law Dowell Tye from New York City, Rob and Jack De Bergh and Dennis Fairbrother. That particular course was new to Mr. Fairbrother and Mr. Tye. The others had attended Mr. Eastham’s shoots before.
The shoot begins with a mandatory safety lecture. Shooters can only chamber two shells. They are to chamber them while standing in a gate immediately before shooting and they must break the gun down as soon as they finish at that particular station.
There are two targets in each round and two rounds at each stand except the last with one round. So a perfect score is 50. In Sunday’s shoot Rob De Bergh was high scorer with 29. Mr. Eastham said the highest score at his range was 45 in a tournament he held earlier this month and “most people here shoot in the 20s or low 30s. ”
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