What happened to the Remington Shooting School???

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Several years ago I was on my way to Illion, NY to take a three-day trap/skeet shooting course at the home of Remington Arms. I never made it out of CT due to a car accident that left the car undrivable.

Now that I have more time on my hands, I would like to get more into clay shooting and thought I would register again at the Remington School. Howver, I cannot locate any info on the web. Remington's web site has no information at all about it.

Does anyone know if they still have the school?? Or know a good alternative trap and skeet shooting school??
 
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I found this listing:

Remington Shooting School
Remington Arms Company
14 Hoefler Avenue
Ilion, NY 13357
315-895-3574
Dale P. Christie, Director
 
n4zov - Thank you for the info. I called and was told that Remington disbanded the school about 5 years ago.

So, I guess that's that!
 
Just come on down to the Silver Dollar (Tampabay) and you can learn from the best(which is not me, of course, though I'd be glad to shoot some trap with you).

Phil Kiner's doing a clinic at Sarasota just before the Southern Grand.

Kaye Ohye lives on the grounds during the winter.

Keith Heeg is here all winter.

Lots of greats who'll be glad to help you improve.

Southern Grand starts in 10 days.

Bob
 
straightshooter1- good luck and break some for me.
 
Remington Gun Club

I used to love to shoot skeet and trap at the Remington Gun Club in Stratford, CT. But Remington shut it down because of EPA pressure about all the lead. I think it closed sometime around 1986. I remember Remington made a public statement about how they regretted having to close their gun club, but the shooters of Connecticut need not worry because Remington was not going to abandon them. They lied.
 
Thanks, Perazzi.

We start the Southern Grand a week from tomorrow, then the State Shoot. If the weather is nice, I hope to win something. I hate shooting when it's cold (anything below 72 is cold).

Bob
 
Remington Shooting School

As a 50th birthday present, in 1997, my wife sent me to the Remington Shooting School which was held at the Middletown Gun Club in Ohio. It was three days of fun, instruction and good shooting. Skip Smith was the instructor. Believe it or not, most of the instruction was with the 28 guage to demonstrate that sight picture, consistent gun mount and follow through were the key ingriedents to hitting a moving target. In addition, each student was fitted with a custom stocked Remington 11-87 Premier 12, 20 or 28 guage which was available from attending the school and included in the price. The wood is magnificent, the receiver is coin, with very nicely done engraving. And, a custom fitting gun shoots like a house afire! You don't know what you've been missing until you have a custom fitted gun built to your individual specs.
I picked up 10+ birds on the average in a sporting round from the instruction and today reflect back on the what I was taught when hitting a slump.
 
New to the site. Shot sporting clays with a guy today that attended the remington school in upsate NY and received the 1187 model upon completion. Made me start to research, had lots of good stuff to say about it. Fired it quite a few times, real nice gun but was spoiled using a Beretta A-400 loaner:) from a friend.
 
Having a properly fitting gun is the key to most shooting. I shot trap with my Browning Citori Special Sporting Clays and couldn't understand why I couldn't shoot better. Bought a BT99+ and had it adjusted and shot a clean 25 two weeks later. I still shoot the Citori for skeet & Sporting Clays, and it fits the bill there.
 
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