Wairarapa Clay Target Club

Wairarapa Clay Target Club The Wairarapa Clay Target Club on its grounds in Tauherenikau provides 3 DTL including Ball Trap, and 2 S***t fields, plus a fully automated Compak field.
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The Wairarapa Clay Target Club at Tauwharenīkau between Featherston and Greytown, offers a diverse facility, focused on a variety of sporting clay disciplines and engaging target presentations, complimented by DTL trap and S***t discipline fields. We cater for the serious competitive shooter as well as those just wanting to have a go. Also corporate shoots are very welcome.

12/06/2026

We’re all set for the central and lower North Island secondary schools DTL + Sporting Clays Challenge this Sunday.

Check out all the details + live scoreboards and results on our website

Secondary Schools Shooting Returns to Wairarapa This Sunday We're looking forward to hosting Round 3 of the Central & Lo...
09/06/2026

Secondary Schools Shooting Returns to Wairarapa This Sunday

We're looking forward to hosting Round 3 of the Central & Lower North Island Secondary Schools Competition this Sunday 14th June, with schools travelling from across the region to compete for the prestigious Sam & Angus Donald Memorial Cup.

This year Wairarapa Clay Target Club is also introducing something completely new...

The Central & Lower North Island Secondary Schools Sporting Challenge

A simple 20-target Sporting Clays competition running alongside the day's DTL programme.

Never shot Sporting before?

No worries. Use the same gun. The same shells. Just a different challenge.

Our club members will be on every stand to help explain the format, offer advice and make sure everyone has a great time.

We think plenty of secondary school shooters will discover they quite enjoy Sporting Clays!

Full event details, and Sporting Challenge information can be found on our website

01/06/2026

The Hawke’s Bay visitors and the never ending rivalry

01/06/2026

Sunday at the club.

A good mix of old-school clay target shooters, regular members, newer shooters and visitors all getting stuck in.

Some people still arrive wondering what to make of these flexible new formats. But after nearly a year of running weekends this way, the results are hard to argue with.

More shooters. More families. More rounds. More people coming back.

A club with a lot of life in it again.

01/06/2026

Saturday at the club.

New faces, new members, kids and families getting involved, and plenty of experienced club members helping people find their feet.

A few tips, a few adjustments, a few lightbulb moments, and plenty of targets broken along the way.

This is the sort of club culture we’re working hard to build.

01/06/2026

Friday afternoons at Wairarapa Clay Target Club with some Hawke’s Bay visitors. Lots of laughs and friendly rivalry

May Sporting + DTL Weekend Wrap-UpAnother really positive weekend at the club.We brought Friday afternoon shooting back ...
01/06/2026

May Sporting + DTL Weekend Wrap-Up

Another really positive weekend at the club.

We brought Friday afternoon shooting back into the format this month, which proved well worth doing, and kicked things off with a working bee Friday morning. Big thanks to the club members who helped get a start on tidying up the grounds.

Across the weekend we had well over 50 people through, with plenty of rounds shot across English Sporting, Super Sporting and DTL Single Rise.

The DTL was the extra addition this month, and it was great to see 26 shooters posting rounds. DTL has been pretty quiet around the wider region for a long time, so that was a real positive.

English Sporting also worked well in the Club Championship format, with shooters coming back for extra rounds and trying to improve their best two scores. Super Sporting gave everyone the usual mix of variety and challenge.

The best part again was the culture around the club. New shooters, regulars, gamebird shooters, experienced competitors, families, and people we haven’t seen around the grounds for a while — everyone mixing in, helping each other, having a laugh, and getting stuck in.

We know some of the old-school traditionalists still struggle to get their heads around these newer flexible formats. That’s fine. Change always takes a bit of getting used to.

But after nearly a year of running shoots this way, it’s getting pretty hard to argue with the results. The club has turned around massively, participation is growing, membership is growing, and the atmosphere on the grounds speaks for itself.

Spend a bit of time at the club on one of these weekends and you can see what’s happening.

People are turning up.
They’re shooting more.
They’re trying different disciplines.
They’re helping each other.
And they’re coming back.

At a time when things are tough for clubs and sporting organisations, what we’re seeing at Wairarapa is really encouraging. People are still out there. They still want to shoot, learn something, meet good people, and be part of a club that’s moving forward.

Full results, grade winners, Falcon ammunition prizes, random prize draws and the full wrap-up are now up on the website.

Prize winners can collect prizes at the June weekend. Any prizes not collected by the end of that weekend will go back into the club prize pool.

🔜 Next Shoot:
19–21 June
Similar to May format, including Super Sporting Club Champs

🇳🇿 John Hillier flying the Wairarapa flag at the Oceania FITASC Sporting Clays ChampionshipA big shout-out to Wairarapa ...
30/05/2026

🇳🇿 John Hillier flying the Wairarapa flag at the Oceania FITASC Sporting Clays Championship

A big shout-out to Wairarapa Clay Target Club member John Hillier, who is currently over in Australia representing New Zealand in the New Zealand Senior Team at the Oceania FITASC Sporting Clays Championship, held at Wodonga Albury Field & Game in Victoria.

After a frustrating start to the event, with the first day scrapped due to heavy fog, the championship has been reduced to a 100-target match. At the halfway point, John is sitting right up near the sharp end of a very strong field of close to 300 competitors. Currently sitting in 5th overall across the entire field, and runner-up position in the Senior category, John's put himself in a strong position for the run to the finish tomorrow.

The New Zealand Senior Team is also right in the fight, currently sitting two targets ahead of the Australian Senior Team at the halfway mark. There is still plenty to play out on Sunday, but it is fantastic to see the Kiwi team, and one of our own Wairarapa members, putting in such a strong showing.

John has been in awesome form for a number of months now, and we’ll all be watching closely to see how he finishes off tomorrow.

We’ll put the live scores link in the comments for anyone wanting to follow Sunday’s results and see how John, the New Zealand teams, and the full championship field finish up.

Forecast’s looking mint for this weekend. ☀️☀️ ☀️ ☀️ Three calm sunny days lined up in the Wairarapa and the club will b...
20/05/2026

Forecast’s looking mint for this weekend. ☀️☀️ ☀️ ☀️

Three calm sunny days lined up in the Wairarapa and the club will be open from Friday afternoon through Sunday for another full weekend of shooting as and when you please.

We’ve got:
🏆 English Sporting
🏆 DTL Single Rise
💰 Super Sporting

Same relaxed setup that’s been working so well:
turn up when you can, shoot what you want, re-enter if you feel like it, get a bit of help if you want it, and enjoy a good weekend around the grounds.

Really keen to see a few more people have a crack at the DTL this month too. Don’t think you need to be some hardened trap shooter to get involved. It’s a bloody good discipline for newer shooters and gamebird hunters wanting to sharpen up a bit.

With the Dale Shield up in Hawke’s Bay the following weekend, we’d love to get a decent Wairarapa crew up there, especially some of our newer and developing shooters.

Friday afternoon shooting is back this month as well, which should spread things out nicely and make for a more relaxed weekend all round.

📍 Full details and registrations are all up on the website now

Should be another beauty.

Forecast’s looking mint for this weekend. ☀️☀️ ☀️ ☀️ Three calm sunny days lined up in the Wairarapa and the club will b...
20/05/2026

Forecast’s looking mint for this weekend. ☀️☀️ ☀️ ☀️

Three calm sunny days lined up in the Wairarapa and the club will be open from Friday afternoon through Sunday for another full weekend of shooting as and when you please.

We’ve got:
🏆 English Sporting
🏆 DTL Single Rise
💰 Super Sporting

Same relaxed setup that’s been working so well:
turn up when you can, shoot what you want, re-enter if you feel like it, get a bit of help if you want it, and enjoy a good weekend around the grounds.

Really keen to see a few more people have a crack at the DTL this month too. Don’t think you need to be some hardened trap shooter to get involved. It’s a bloody good discipline for newer shooters and gamebird hunters wanting to sharpen up a bit.

With the Dale Shield up in Hawke’s Bay the following weekend, we’d love to get a decent Wairarapa crew up there, especially some of our newer and developing shooters.

Friday afternoon shooting is back this month as well, which should spread things out nicely and make for a more relaxed weekend all round.

📍 Full details and registrations are all up on the website now

Should be another beauty. 🎯

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170 Moroa Road
Fernside
5771

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+64274495231

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