Safety, then ritual.

Five wooden stands. One instructor to three guns. A brief that never gets shorter.A sporting clays club in a quiet valley where the first ten minutes are the same every time, for everyone, and the rest is the calm that comes after.

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01 · The ritual

Five steps, then pull.

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clays · one round · hits in orange

OpenBroken, over the arm

MuzzleDown range, always

Ears, eyesBefore the stand

LoadOn the stand, two only

Call"Pull." Then the arc.

Gun open. That's the first thing and the last.Broken over the arm from the car to the stand and back. If it's closed anywhere else, the day's over. Nobody argues. Nobody ever has.

A wooden high seat standing at the edge of a green field under a hazy sky

02 · The ground

What's in the valley.

stands. Oak, roofed, facing away from everything. Rebuilt one a year.

1 : 3

instructor to guns. Never more. Never a group of ten and a megaphone.

clays a round. Enough to learn something, not enough to stop listening.

closed guns off the stand. Ever. It's the only rule with no second chance.

Three people seen from behind on a grass shooting ground under a wide grey sky

The ritual starts with the gun open.

Everything calm about this place comes from the first ten minutes being unarguable. Once the brief is done, nobody's nervous, and nobody's loud. That's the quiet in the name.

Membership

Three ways onto the ground.

Guest, member, or learner. The brief is the same for all three. So is the instructor ratio.

Guest · by invitation · weekendsGuest dayA member vouches, a round of 25, the brief first

For people who've been asked along. Two visits, then we'd like to know if you're joining.

£38 a round · clays and cartridges

Annual · 120 membersMemberFive stands, the club room, the ground on weekdays

Capped at a hundred and twenty so the valley stays quiet and the instructors know every gun by name.

£720 a year

Lessons · one to one · any levelInstructionAn hour, a stand, an instructor, fifty clays

Most members started here. Gun fit, mount, lead, and the brief until it's boring. Boring is the aim.

£95 an hour · gun provided

Safety

The brief, written down.

Ten minutes, every visit, whoever you are. It hasn't changed in twenty years because it hasn't needed to.

A shotgun cartridge and a wooden stock resting on a bench

Open, alwaysBroken over the arm from car to stand. A closed gun off the stand ends the day. No discussion.

Muzzle down rangeWhere the clays go, the muzzle goes. Turning round with a gun is the thing we watch for hardest.

Ears and eyes before the standDefenders on, glasses on, then walk up. Not the other way round. Ever.

Two cartridges, on the standLoaded when the instructor says, unloaded before you step down. Empty chambers shown, every time.

Call, then look"Pull." The clay's already in the air. The rest is the part people come back for.

Lessons

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An hour, one to one, gun provided if you don't have one, and the brief first whether you do or not. Mornings are quietest. Tell us if you've never held one; most people haven't, and it's the easiest hour we teach.

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