Wattlespring Sports Club hosts a night shoot
Located on 270 hectares of pristine countryside, nestled between idyllic Wattle Trees and various natural springs. This is the home of the legendary Wattlespring Sports Club.
The Wattlespring Sports Club, located outside of Bronkhorstspruit, boasts world-class clay pigeon shooting ranges, rifle ranges and handgun ranges.
The club held a night shoot competition Wednesday, 11 May.
This competition included five machines, six cages and 25 clay targets with a maximum of 60 shooters.
The competition began at 18:00 and continued until 23:00.
Clay pigeon shooting is a challenging and visually exciting sport of shooting flying clay targets with a shotgun.
Clay shooting requires skill, timing, and hand-eye coordination, and is thrilling and most important loads of fun.
“Don’t sweat if you’re not a pro or even if this is your first time shooting. Like many great sports, it is friendly towards newcomers if you focus on the basics. It is a fantastic sport to get involved in. It can be done in large groups, which often makes it a favourite outdoor activity for organisations, clubs and parties,” said range manager, Juan Bouillon.
Then there is rifle shooting where the club has 17 Olympic standard .22 and air rifle lanes on the rifle range.
“Here shooters can test new and sight in old rifles before the hunting season, or get in some practice before shooting competitions. Ear and eye protection are compulsory on all rifle ranges,” added Bouillon.
The club has 18 shotgun ranges that include 13 sporting ranges, eight compact/ five stand ranges, eight ATA / DTL ranges, two UT / OT ranges, three skeet ranges, eight fitasc sporting ranges and 13 English sporting ranges.
They also have 13 handgun ranges with two permanently set up IPSC stages with steel pop-ups and targets – 18 to 32 rounds per stage.
In March 2001 a group of dedicated clay shooting enthusiasts then formed a company called Pointofact Holdings.
Due to dense wattle forestation on the property, the club was named Wattlespring Gun Club.
The club has an average annual membership of 163 and major provincial and national competitions and corporate and sponsored events remain well supported.
The current owner, Marc Armstrong intends to develop the present facility at Wattlespring into a multi-centric lifestyle centre encompassing not only clay targets but other shooting disciplines.
Also envisioned is an expansion of the existing club-house with a permanent restaurant, bar and gun shop.
The inclusion of a gentleman’s whiskey and cigar lounge to accommodate the history of this famous club in memorabilia and photographs is also in the cards.
Further changes involve the swimming pool that is up and running, tennis courts and additional outdoor facilities.
