About this item
Mastering Sporting Clays is a perfect guide for all levels of sporting clays shooters, from recreational to competitor. Beginner and novice shooters learn essential first steps, including an easy to remember set of fundamentals and, equally important, a system for recalling those fundamentals. Advanced shooters, including competitive shooters, will benefit from target-specific tactics, allowing them to focus on improving their problem areas.
About the Author
Don Currie is the Chief Instructor of the National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) and one of the most recognized and sought-after professional shotgun coaches, gun fitters and range/course designers in North America. He delivers extraordinary instructional and hunting experiences to clay target competitors, recreational shooters and discerning sportsmen. He is one of only 70 NSCA certified Level III Instructors in the United States, is a Fellow of the Association of Professional Shooting Instructors (APSI, UK) and a member of the Institute of Clay Shooting Instructors (ICSI, UK) . Currie is the author of "Mastering Sporting Clays" published by Stackpole Books/Cole Publishing and has launched two highly acclaimed instructional DVDs with Sunrise Productions: "Focus-Movement-Faith" and "Target Tactics for Sporting Clays". He writes for all of the major shotgun sports magazines as well as authors an e-column titled "Ask the Instructor" distributed weekly to over 40,000 shotgun enthusiasts. Currie started shooting competitively at age eight, bird hunting at age fourteen and coaching in the shooting sports as a sixteen-year-old apprentice. Currie served for seven years in the military as a US Army Ranger as well as an instructor at the US Army Ranger School and US Army Infantry School culminating in his command of a combat infantry company during Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989/90) . After leaving the Army, Currie transitioned into the corporate world serving 22 years in senior corporate leadership positions culminating in his role as CEO of a $100 million consumer products company.Throughout his military and business career, he maintained a deep and unrelenting passion for competing in the shooting sports, coaching, and upland bird and waterfowl hunting and was eventually drawn back to the shooting sports as a vocation. Currie earned his way to Master Class on the NSCA competition circuit and won a National Championship title in side-by-side shotgun in 2011. Currie was the general manger of an exclusive shooting and hunting preserve in North Florida (The Gilchrist Club, Trenton, FL) where he established an Orvis Wingshooting and Fly fishing School. Since 2014, he has served as the Chief Instructor of the National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) and, in that capacity, teaches and mentors other sporting clays instructors and administers the NSCA's instructor program in North America. Through his Academy of Wing & Clay Shooting, Currie continues to provide private and group shotgun instruction, gun fitting, custom shotgun sales, course design and guide services. Currie is a dealer or sales agent for fine shotgun brands such as Purdey, Perazzi, Beretta and others. He lives in Lake Mary, Florida with his wife and family. For more information, visit www.DonCurrie.com.
