Sunday the 25th of October. We will be open 8:30 for practice and registration. Competition 9ish. Preston 586-215-3060
Remember, since we had to cancel two shoots earlier in the year this is an ordinary monthly shoot. Our season-ender with awards and lunch will be the November shoot.
Mesilla Valley Shotgun Sports will open its sporting clays field for all members and the general public on Saturday, October 17, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Please note the later start time. This will be the final sporting clays shoot for the year.
Please review the following and arrive early enough to be at your assigned station by 9:00 AM.
Due to the Founders Day and Members Appreciation Day event on Saturday, October 3, there will not be a 5-Stand shoot that day.
The next 5-Stand shoot will be on November 7.
MVSS will host the Host Lions Club fundraiser this coming Saturday, September 26, 2026. Trap fields and Skeet 1 field will be closed to the
public. Normal operation will resume on Sunday.
Sunday the 27th our September club shoot. Open at 8 for registration and practice, competition 9ish. If you have questions contact Preston at 586-215-3060 or prestonbenfield@gmail.com
Because of the heavy rains in the past few days, the parking area at the sporting clays range is flooded. Setup of the clays course this morning was impossible and parking tomorrow would be messy. For those reasons, the September sporting clays shoot scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled.
Mesilla Valley Shotgun Sports will open its sporting clays field for all members and the general public on Saturday, September 19, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
Please join us at 9:00 AM on Saturday, October 3, 2026, to celebrate everything we’ve done since the range opened on October 8, 2011.
This will be a fun shoot – two rounds of trap or skeet, or one of each. The machines will have flash targets mixed with regular targets, whoever breaks one will receive a token.
Everyone gets lunch – a green chile cheeseburger, potato salad, chips, and a drink, and additional lunch tickets can be purchased for $5.00 We’ll serve from 11:00 until 12:30, or the food runs out.
All of this for $12 or two tokens. Please join us.
The flyer is available at 2026-founders-day
Bag a Bird will be November 6-8 after all! Please let Brock know if you’re attending so he can plan lunches.
We are moving the “Bag a Bird” shoot to November 13-15. The weekend it was on before was NMSU Homecoming!
The flyer is available at 2026-bag-a-bird
November 22 will be our last skeet club shoot and luncheon for 2026. The October date will be a normal club shoot as we have had to cancel 2 shoots.
Also — as two shoots had to be canceled, for this year we are only requiring shooters to have participated in two prior shoots this season in order to participate in the final.
The flyer is available at 2026-thunderbird-open