5-stand added to Avery shooting range

The Arizona Game and Fish Department submitted the following article about upgrades at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix.

Recreational clay-target shooters can enjoy the challenge of 5-stand at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility's Clay Target Center in Phoenix. The center has added 5-stand to augment its offerings of trap, skeet and sporting clays.

Likened to an abbreviated version of sporting clays, 5-stand offers shooters a variety of target presentations to simulate the random flight paths of upland and waterfowl hunting. For those who typically shoot trap or skeet, this game will prove to be challenging and exciting.

"Five-stand is a very popular game. Our regular customers are happy to see us offering it again," says range master Bill Kelsey. "The other day I pulled about 60 rounds non-stop. That's 1,500 targets.

"They love it. I had to beg the shooters to give me a five-minute water break."

Five-stand is set up on one of the center's lighted trap and skeet fields for daytime and nighttime shooting. Each station has five targets chosen from seven throwing positions and trajectories.

At each station is a menu of what targets will be presented.

For example, Station 1 might consist of the following: "single 7, report pair 1 and 5, true pair 3 and 4."

Each station is different, and the menus may change.

A round of 5-stand consists of 25 targets, five from each station.

The cost is $6.50 per round.

Hunters of dove and quail will find that 5-stand is a great way to get shotgunning skills honed before going afield.

Summer hours for the Ben Avery Clay Target Center continue until Oct. 15.