Competitors line up for their turn to shoot clay pigeons at the Lions Club of Anza Valley’s Turkey Shoot Sunday, Oct. 16. Anza Valley Outlook/Courtesy photo
The Lions Club of Anza Valley hosted its monthly turkey shoot at the Minor Field shooting range Sunday, Oct. 16. The event provided friendly competition and excitement.Contestants lined up, with shotguns in hand, to take shots at bright orange clay pigeons propelled into the sky, vying for the championships to be determined at year’s end. Hot dogs and refreshments were sold as the shooters took their turns in the contests.The grand champion winner for October was Eric Gregoire. Brad Groff won the chip shot and Carmen Paz took the Annie Oakley.A turkey shoot is a shotgun shooting contest where frozen turkeys are often awarded as prizes. The targets are clay pigeons, commonly called skeet and made of a biodegradable ceramic material that decomposes into the soil. The skeets are
