Makayla Scott shares what happened at the first ever Women’s Clays Championship, hosted by A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League.

Makayla Scott creates a simple craft from painted bones. She collects skulls and other animal bones, then applies paint to create natural art.

Through experience, Makayla Scott learned how to pack for the SCTP Nationals. Find out what you may need for your next shotgun event.

I keep a very full schedule with my shooting, writing and school. But, I absolutely love the outdoors – especially anything near the water. This summer, I started taking a special liking to muskies. Since I was on a bit of a fishing kick, I reached out to Jacob Ott from Otters Guide Service to […]

Makayla Scott ventures out on her first turkey hunt adventure with retired game warden Larry Case and her Remington V3 Turkey Pro.

This hunting season turned to be an amazing one for me. First hunting squirrels with my sister, getting my first deer, hunting hogs and just lately, doing some damage control. What really made the latter 2 so special though is that I was given my first rifle, a CZ 527 6.5 Grendel. Even though I […]

A few years back my dad took my brother on a hog hunt at Cribs Creek Outfitters in North Carolina. My dad wanted to give my brother, Johnathan, a going-away present, since Jonathan had enlisted in the Marine Corps and would be leaving soon. What better than a hog hunt and chance to get his […]

In West Virginia, deer season is more than just deer season. It’s a family heritage spread all throughout the state. It’s the time of year when sons and daughters that have moved away come home and old friends get together. It seems like the time of year, other than Christmas, that families get together and […]

Another adventure this fall turned out to be something I’ve never done before. I learned how to trap. I learned to trap from my dad, who learned from his dad and so forth. Trapping animals has been a tradition in my family for years. It makes me extremely proud to carry on a tradition that […]

My hunting season started this year in early November with my little sister Brooklyn, begging to go hunting squirrels. We hadn’t gone for so long, and the last time we went with our father we got our day limit the first time we went out. This year, my sister and I had an idea – […]

Teen contributor Makayla Scott will be treating us to life stories from her neck of the woods, in West Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Makayla is a rising star in the competition shotgun world, but we discovered that her life revolves around a rich community and culture, based in the outdoors, and she wants to share […]

Whenever I was little, I admired the people who got in the Guinness World Records book. Every time a new one would come out for the year, it was a race to see who could get to the elementary school library first, to get the coveted book and see all the latest oddities and champions […]

August is National Shooting Sports Month. This month I’ll be focusing on introducing people, especially women and youth, to shooting sports. Sponsored by Aguila  Be sure to take the time to introduce someone new to shooting sports this month. I was introduced to shotgun 3 years ago and it absolutely changed my life. I would’ve […]

Something I’ve learned the hard way through competing and hunting is that preparation is extremely important. Whether you’re on the professional sporting clay circuit or a pheasant hunt of a lifetime in Kansas, it’s no fun to reach in your range bag and discover that you’ve forgotten your shotgun chokes or your warm gloves. The […]

We’re at Station 5 on a sporting clay range. The shooter I’m squadded with hasn’t missed one. When he arrives in the shooting box to take the first shot, he sets the gun down, takes a deep breath, and looks at the background of the station. He then picks up the gun, raises it to […]

It was April of 2016. I was a shy, 13-year old who was extremely insecure, and my self-confidence was basically non-existent. I can remember seeing the confident girls and women playing softball saying, “Come with us, Makayla, you’ll have fun.” And every time I went with them, I was so scared of the ball that […]

Just recently, I received the opportunity of a lifetime – to take a lesson with master sporting clays and wing shooting instructor Daniel Schindler of the Paragon School of Sporting. After spending time on the range with Daniel, I came away knowing why it’s not only important to know why I missed the target, but […]

We welcome competition shooter Makayla Scott to our group of authors, and to TeamWON. With this first post, she introduces us to the world of the Scholastic Clay Target Program and how it has benefitted her life. We believe that her testament to the value of the shooting sports will resonate with our readers and […]