Welcome to Pines Sporting Clays
A private shotgun-only club located in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
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Our history
Welcome to Pines Sporting Clays, a private shotgun-only club located just under 3 miles from the loop in Lufkin, Texas
Our club was founded in 1961 under the direction of Dan Vines, and the property we are still on today was owned by the Vines Family. Pines Gun Club, as it became known, was down to a handful of members in 1988 until a group of local Wing-shooters took the bull by the horns and revitalized the club in 1989. This core group of people began an informal skeet and trap club and in 1989, the club gravitated to the “new” Sporting Clays Sport, purchasing new and used hand throwers. Pines Gun Club affiliated itself with the United States Sporting Clays Association (USSCA) until the National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) superseded the USSCA in the early 1990s. In 2014, Pines Gun Club was officially changed to "Pines Sporting Clays". And today, our facility encompasses 115 acres of rolling hills and creek bottoms, with Skeet, American Trap, Wobble trap, and 5-Stand, to go along with 3 Sporting Clay courses.
OUR MASCOT - the pineywoods rooter
Pineywoods Rooters root around the base of trees in search of nourishment. Most of the original Piney Woods feral breed was long and lean with a pointed snout and tusks (pointed teeth projecting from the sides of the mouth, up to five inches in length, with knifelike sharpness). The pointed snout was used to dig up soil to find bugs, roots, and plant bulbs at the base of trees. Boars were often called razorbacks because the hair on their backs bristled upward when the hog was threatened. They had a coarse mane of thick bristly hair running from the neck along their entire back that stood five or so inches high when threatened. The ears were more heavily-haired than our domestic hogs are today. Most wild hogs back in the day had a straight tail instead of curled one with a clump of hair on the end. When charging, the rooter usually raised the tail up in the air.
The Piney Woods rooters would often fight or charge if confronted. Each hog has 44 teeth with four continuously growing canine teeth called tusks. These hogs roamed the woods and as a threat to man, they often wound up on the table.
The Piney Woods hogs could be any color. Some were black, brown, red, white, or a combination. Many were belted, mottled, or spotted. Belted were usually dark with a white strip around the hog.
Thanks to William Wingard Rahn for this topic for the article. This was compiled by
Susan Exley of Historic Effingham Society. hesheraldexley@aol.com.
About Pines Sporting Clays
Our Mission
To provide a uniquely East Texas shotgun shooting experience by providing safe facilities and educational opportunities from local experts in the field and to grow and preserve the sport by promoting events for all levels of shooters: youth, novice, and advanced shooters.
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About PSC
OUR BOARD
Pines Sporting Clays board members are elected annually every August. Collectively, board members have over 70+ years of shooting at PSC and continue to hand down the tradition of shooting to their children, family, and friends ensuring the tradition of shotgun shooting will continue for many generations to come.
John Cobb
President
Steve hall
Vice President
Daryl roff
Board Member
David green
Duane Choate
Secretary
Ben Moore
Treasure
Board Member
JEFF GRUBB
Board Member
Anderson, Randy
Baldwin, Ray
Barclay, David
Bisbey, Blair
Brookshire, William
Bowers, Jack
Bowers, Shaun
Burton, Gilbert
Butler, David
Byrd, Don
Chandra, Billy Bob (Doc)
Choate, Duane
Choate, Larry
Crawford, Dirk
Dupree, Ronnie
Fedun, Chris
Gilbert, Keith
Griffith, Chuck
Gray, John
Green, David
Johnson, Rex
Kettering, Lance & Gwen
Latham, Benny
Love, Bob
Lowery, Rex
Maroney, Travis
McClinton, Gary
McEntire, James
Morgan, Terry
Morton, David
Neill, Don
Parrott, Leon
Richardson, John/Glenda
Ross, Mrs. Joe
Ross, Scott
Semlinger, Scott
Smith, Douglas
Smithhart, Kevin
Snodgrass, Ronnie
Stafford, Monty
Stone, Wayne
Tayloe, Tom
Terstegen, Egbert
Treadwell, Vince
Vines, Danny
Vines, David
Werner, John
Winston, Simon
Membership Information
Here at PSC, we are a private gun club; we accept all people but reserve the right to revoke membership when the safety of all members is not maintained.
Annually, we host 4 to 5 NSCA shoots, 2 to 3 Charity shoots, and host Fall, Spring, and Summer leagues, each with varying and additional costs outside of the membership fees. Our Fall and Spring leagues are 6 weeks long and our Summer league is 3 weeks long.
Our memberships start at $300/year. This includes full use of the club when a scheduled event is not happening or when an event does not rent out the entire facility. Rounds are $8 per round. The sporting clay rounds are $40 per 100 birds. Please note, the Sporting Clays course is not set up year-round.
Any guest will need to pay non-member fees of $12.00/round. Students/Youth shooters pay half-priced for rounds; pricing for leagues varies. Remember this is on the honor system and regulated by you!
All membership inquiries can be submitted and questions regarding Pre-Paid Tickets questions can be submitted online using the form on the Contact Us page. Click below to submit your questions!
Membership Information
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Venue Rentals & Information
Rental Fees
The fee to hold an event date and secure the venue is $2,000.00 minimum (cost may vary during peak shooting season)
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GENERAL INFORMATION & GUIDELINES
Volunteers for charity shoot
Sign-in person (1)
Cashier (1)
Scorers and Trappers on EVERY station (+/- 26)
Troubleshooting/Shoot Liason (1)
Clay targets for all charity shoots and any specialty shoots - $50 per 100 birds
VOLUNTEERS FOR SIDEGAMES
Sign-in person (1)
Cashier (1)
Sidegame Monitors (2)
For side games, there will be a $10 charge per box of shells (25 shots).
after the shoot
An additional $1500.00 will be charged if any of the following are not completed after the shoot.
About the Piney Woods
The pine forest lands or "Pineywoods" of East Texas extend from the Red River in the northeast corner of the state southward to the region bordering Galveston Bay and from the Louisiana border on the east to the Black Prairie region on the west. Although there are a few isolated pockets in other parts of the state, Texas pine forests are contained in the Eastern part of the State because of favorable soil conditions.
The Pineywoods region encompasses the four National Forests in Texas, which together, cover a total. of 637,386 acres. The four national forests are
the Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine, and Sam Houston National Forests, and span through portions of Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Walker counties.
The topography in East Texas is gently rolling to hilly in the north and central areas, and it becomes flatter near the Gulf of Mexico. The terrain varies from creeks and river bottoms, swamp forest communities, and dry to moist uplands. Weather in the Piney Woods is typically hot, humid, and rainy in the summer months, with a mild to moderate winter.
Longleaf Pine
Loblolly Pine
Shortleaf Pine
Splash Pine
LONGLEAF
Longleaf pine has commonly been referred to as long straw, yellow, southern yellow, and Georgia pine. It is estimated that longleaf pine once covered as much as 5,000 square miles in Texas. The species develops best in association with periodic surface fires which result in open parklike stands. Although longleaf will thrive under a wide variety of conditions, in East Texas this species was primarily located on well-drained sandy ridges of the south-central part of the region.
Mature longleaf pine trees produce a large amount of high-quality resin which made them an important resource for the naval stores (turpentine and resin) industry. Their lumber is of high quality and is well suited for a variety of uses, including poles, posts, sawlogs, plywood, and pulpwood.
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Shortleaf pine is referred to as shortleaf yellow, southern yellow, old-field, short straw, or Arkansas soft pine.
It grows well under a variety of soil and site conditions and has the widest range of any pine species in the southern US.
In Texas, its range primarily covers approximately 30,000 square miles extending from the Red River in the north to the edge of the longleaf range in the south-central part of the region. Shortleaf pine was the first of the Texas pines to be exploited commercially due to the early expansion of the railroads into its range. It is most commonly used for the production of lumber, plywood, and other structural materials. It is also used for pulpwood, and in some cases, even taproot may be used for pulp.
LOBLOLLY
Loblolly pine, sometimes referred to as Carolina, or old-field pine, originally covered an estimated area of about 7,000 square miles in Texas. Its range was originally south and East of Pines Sporting Clays, and included all or parts of San Jacinto, Walker, Montgomery, Harris, Jefferson, Liberty, Orange, Harden, Grimes, Newton, Jasper, and Chambers counties. Because it has excellent reproductive characteristics including rapid juvenile growth, much of the current "second-growth" pine forest of southern and central East Texas is loblolly. Loblolly is used for lumber and makes excellent habitat for both game and non-game species.
Slash pine is a southeastern species, found primarily east of the Mississippi River. It was planted in East Texas in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of a large forest regeneration effort. Although it is harvested commercially today, slash pine was not present during the Bonanza period of the East Texas logging industry.
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Daily (Holidays Included!)
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